Edtech Startup SiglQ.ai Raises $9.5 Mn In Seed Round

AI-driven edtech startup SiglQ.ai has raised $9.5 million in a seed funding round co-led by The House Fund and GSV Ventures.

Duolingo, General Catalyst India (Venture Highway), Peak XV Partners, Calibrate Ventures, and a group of angel investors including Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, Christian Storm (Co-founder and CTO, Turnitin), Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik  (Berkeley AI Research, UC Berkeley), Prof. Srini Devadas (MIT), Sharad Malik, among others, also took part of the round.

The funds will help SiglQ.ai hire top talent, improve its AI tools, and expand its platforms to schools and universities worldwide.

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“We are at a pivotal moment in education where modern GenAI can provide a personal 1:1 tutor to every student and reduce the cost of one-on-one learning from hundreds of dollars an hour to the cost of computation,” said, Karttikeya Mangalam, Founder and CEO of SigIQ.ai.

“SigIQ.ai isn’t just a regular edtech startup — they have built an AI system that publicly demonstrated its ability to outperform both humans and leading commercial AI models on one of the world’s most challenging exams,” said, Jeremy Fiance, Managing Director of The House Fund.

About SiglQ.ai 

Founded in 2023 by Karttikeya Mangalam and Kurt Keutzer, the California (Berkeley) and Gurugram-based SiglQ.ai builds AI-powered learning tools that offer personalized education at scale. 

Its main products, PadhAI and EverTutor.ai, are already helping hundreds of thousands of students globally, aiming to reshape the future of education.

After 18 months in stealth mode, the company has launched both products, focusing on the U.S. and Indian higher education markets. 

SiglQ.ai claims that its PadhAI Tutor ranked #1 in India’s UPSC 2024 Civil Service Exam, beating over 1.3 million human candidates and AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude.

PadhAI has quickly become popular, attracting over 200,000 UPSC aspirants in India. EverTutor.ai which helps with GRE preparation, gained over 10,000 users within three months of its launch.

 SiglQ.ai plans to grow EverTutor’s reach to support GRE students during the spring and fall exam seasons. The company will also present the latest updates to EverTutor and PadhAI at ASU+GSV, strengthening its role as a leader in AI-based education.

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