CoLearn Obtains Additional Funding Worth of 244 Billion Rupiah

The CoLearn edtech startup received additional funding on its series A round worth of $17 million or equivalent to 244 billion Rupiah. It brings the company's total fundraising round to $27 million. The series A funding was first announced in April 2021 and was valued at $10 million.

The additional round was led by TNB Aura [previous investor], KTBN Venture, and PT Binus Investama Indonesia. There are also previous investors, including AC Ventures, Leo Capital, January Capital, Alpha Wave Incubation, and Surge.

CoLearn's Co-founder & CEO, Abhay Saboo has confirmed the news. He said that CoLearn became the first edtech platform to receive investment from Surge and Binus (Binus Group from Binus University).

Based on our data and observation, CoLearn's current valuation has reached $100 million -- therefore, CoLearn has listed as one of the centaur startups.

Abhey is not the sole army, CoLearn was also co-founded by Marc Irawan and Sandeep Devaram. Since the app launched in August 2020, they currently claim to have 3.5 million students.

One of its main features is allowing students to ask for solutions in answering questions of a subject (homework) -- an average of 5 million questions are uploaded per month. There is an AI technology embedded in the system to automate the solution discovery process.

CoLearn also provides educational content services packaged in on-demand videos and live online class sessions which will be delivered interactively by experienced tutors. It also has a training program for teachers. The company targets to train up to 200 teachers in the next 2 years, especially in the STEM field.

Pandemic accelerating edtech business

It was revealed in the DSResearch: Edtech Report 2020, that the edtech startup, although not as fast as other landscapes like fintech, are starting to gain investor's attention; It has been proven with several startups succeeded in obtaining funding, including Ruangguru which valuation already exceed $100 million.

The increasingly mature market share has made some global edtech players put Indonesia on the list of expansion destinations.

Apart from CoLearn and Ruangguru, other edtech platforms that have experienced positive growth and have received funding in the last three years are Zenius, Pahamify, Hacktiv8, Gredu, Arkademi, and HarukaEdu.

–Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian