Unacademy Company Profile, Funding News & Updates

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Although the talks haven’t been officially announced, the potential valuation represents a sharp drop from Unacademy’s last publicly disclosed valuation of $3.44 billion in 2021, when it raised $440 million in a Temasek-led Series H funding round.

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Sumit Jain joined Unacademy after selling his startup Opentalk to the company. Earlier, he had founded the real estate portal Commonfloor, which he sold to Quikr in 2016.

Cofounder Roman Saini is also leaving daily operations, following Hemesh Singh, who exited in June 2024. The trio had started Unacademy as a YouTube channel almost ten years ago.

Hemesh Singh, the chief technology officer and co-founder of Unacademy, has made the decision to leave Unacademy after nearly ten years of employment. He's going to go into an advisory capacity immediately.

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Jagnoor Singh has been elevated to Chief Operating Officer of Unacademy Centres by the unicorn Edtech company Unacademy.

Unacademy, an Edtech firm, has named Sandhydeep Purri as its chief people officer. Purri has more than twenty-five years of experience in a variety of sectors and regions in leadership capacities.

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