With more than 4,000 tutorpreneurs and 75% moth-on-month repeat customers, Genext have completed 20,000-plus tutoring sessions in the last year

Genext Students, a hybrid tutoring platform in India that connects parents with the best home tutors for their children, has raised US$580,000 in its pre-Series A funding round from undisclosed investors.

Genext Students will use the funding to fortify its team, strengthen tech backbone and expand services to new cities such as Bengaluru, Lucknow, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Chennai.

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Launched in February 2013 by Ali Asgar Kagzi and Asad Daud, Genext Students is a hybrid tutoring platform. With more than 4,000 tutorpreneurs and 75 per cent moth-on-month repeat customers, Genext Students have completed 20,000-plus tutoring sessions in the last lease year across Pune and Mumbai.

The platform aims to bring quality home tutors along with proprietary content (online & offline) to the doorstep of parents/students, using technology as a key driver. It enables personalised learning for students and provides real-time progress updates to parents. The firm has over one million users of its digital study content.

Genext Students offers a combination of private home tutoring and technology-enabled learning across the curricula of national, international and state level syllabi. It aims to bridge the existing discovery, connection and delivery gap in the K-12 education system. Apart from delivering content in English, Genext Students is the first edtech company to have launched content for Hindi medium students in India.

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Kagzi, Co-founder and Director, Genext Students, said: “Genext Students is not only an aggregator of tutors, but also an ecosystem that benefits parents, students and tutors equally. In FY2017, we have been able to register over 1,000 per cent growth with the optimum blend of offline and online personalised learning services. With our fresh round of funds, we aim to expand our services to more cities across a greater number of geographies and make use of technology in an enhanced manner. With a commendable growth of tutoring sessions witnessed in Mumbai and Pune, Genext Students is on a path of aggressive growth.”

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