{"id":16019,"date":"2021-09-12T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T07:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/?p=16019"},"modified":"2021-09-12T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T07:36:22","slug":"byjus-acquires-gradeup-and-re-launches-it-as-byjus-exam-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/byjus-acquires-gradeup-and-re-launches-it-as-byjus-exam-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"BYJU\u2019S acquires Gradeup and re-launches it as BYJU\u2019S Exam Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">BYJU\u2019S, the world\u2019s leading ed-tech company and creator of India\u2019s most loved learning app, has announced the acquisition of Gradeup, one of India&#8217;s largest online exam preparation platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The partnership will bolster BYJU\u2019S presence in the fast-growing online competitive examination preparation category along with harnessing Gradeup\u2019s pedagogy and student reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Gradeup will be rebranded as BYJU\u2019S Exam Prep and will cater to students preparing for 150+ exams over 25 exam categories covering Govt Jobs and PG Entrance Exams such as IAS, GATE, CAT, Bank PO\/Clerk, Defence, UGC-NET, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Speaking about the acquisition,\u00a0<strong>Byju Raveendran, Founder, and CEO, BYJU\u2019S,<\/strong>\u00a0said,\u00a0<em>\u201cOur focus has always been on ensuring that every learner has access to the highest quality of teachers and content to help them learn better.\u00a0 With Gradeup on board, we will be able to further scale and expand our test-prep offerings in postgraduate level exams. Gradeup has already proved its mettle and we are excited to join forces with the seasoned team. We aim to bring our complementary strengths and expertise together to create engaging and personalised learning experiences.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Shobhit Bhatnagar, CEO, Gradeup,<\/strong>\u00a0said, \u201c<em>By combining live classes, assessments, and quality study material, we have built a highly specialised offering for students preparing for competitive exams. Together with BYJU\u2019S, we will accelerate our growth and expand our reach across the country. Further, we will leverage their strengths in content to deepen our current product offering and broaden our coverage of exams.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">BYJU\u2019S has 100+ million registered students and 6.5 million paid subscribers. With Aakash Educational Services Ltd. already being a part of BYJU\u2019S since May 2021, offering its highly effective learning ecosystem, Gradeup coming on board will help BYJU\u2019S scale up in the test preparation segment further. Additionally, students will have access to high quality, personalised and holistic learning experience, with a wide array of test prep classes and offerings to choose from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BYJU\u2019S, the world\u2019s leading ed-tech company and creator of India\u2019s most loved learning app, has announced the acquisition of Gradeup, one of India&#8217;s largest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14775,20715,20713,20714,20716],"class_list":["post-16019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-colleges-schools-arts-science-others","tag-byjus","tag-byjus-exam-prep","tag-exam-prep","tag-gradeup","tag-online-exam-preparation-platform"],"views":2601,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BYJUS-acquires-Gradeup-Exam-Preparatory-Platform.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}