education investment
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Sneha Santra Sep 06 2018 - 2 min readOne of India’s top business schools, The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) recently collaborated with Stanford University for its premier executive education programme. IIMK's contribution in the field of Executive Education is very significant. Commenting on this, Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIM-K, said, “IIMK has been consistently updating the curriculum to provide the best to the ...
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Franchise India Bureau Apr 13 2018 - 2 min readThe country’s biggest private sector company Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will invest $180 million (Rs 1,175 crore) in ed-tech startup Embibe, as the private sector giant bets on digital businesses after quickly ramping up its data-led telecom unit. The energy-to-retail conglomerate plans to acquire a 72.69% stake in Bengaluru-based Embibe from ...
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Franchise India Bureau Apr 09 2018 - 2 min readEducation based publishing house S Chand & Company Ltd has decided to invest an additional amount of Rs 35 lakhs ($53,891) in ed-tech startup Smartivity Labs Pvt. Ltd, it said in a stock exchange filing. The tech enables startup, Smartivity, which deploys augmented reality and robotics for kids’ learning projects, will ...
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Franchise India Bureau Apr 05 2018 - 2 min readUAE-based asset manager Equitativa Group is planning to enter into the Indian education sector through a real estate investment trust (REIT) as the caretaker of school assets. Equitativa, the fund manager for Shariah-compliant and Nasdaq Dubai-listed Emirates REIT, currently manages three schools – Jebel Ali School, British Columbia Canadian School, and ...
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Franchise India Bureau Apr 04 2018 - 1 min readHome-grown private equity firm ChrysCapital led an Rs 350-crore ($55-million) Series C funding round in Bengaluru-based Varthana operated school finance company Thirumeni Finance Pvt. Ltd. According to Thirumeni Finance, the investment was a combination of primary infusion and secondary stake sale by early-stage investors. Existing investors, Elevar Equity, LGT Impact, Omidyar ...