The SaaS startup Acadru has raised around $5 million in a pre-Series A round with AIG Direct LLC as its lead investor and the backing of other participants.
Acadru intends to use this new cash to expand to new markets and to build new paths of content. Launched in the year 2016 by Abhishek Singhal and Kamini Vidisha, Acadru is a unique system of education through online learning tailored for college and senior school students. The platform is aimed at enhancing the successful concentration by students of fundamental academic competencies and self-learning based on extracurricular multicultural activities. These involve project-based activities, mini-modules, and generating learners’ profiles with the help of an artificial intelligence system; all of this is done with the purpose of helping the students to identify the fields they are interested in, gain necessary vocational experience, and demonstrate their accomplishments.
Started in Gurugram, India Acadru emphasises contextual discovery providing learners with an opportunity to take their learning to the next level by solving context based problems. This platform also provides detailed background information, sample project topics, content sequence and source connections suggestions. These are intended as materials for solving individual and team assignments; for grounding research, analysis, and evaluation skills for depth study.
Acadru currently boasts of having over 5000 projects within over 500 topics, and content is updated every week. The system is flexible and can be further customized to fit the needs of schools therefore can be applied in almost any educational situation.