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Venture Capital Firms Pump $1B into Indian Ed-Tech Startups - L.A. Focus Newspaper

India's education technology industry has raked in over $1 billion during the first six months of the current financial year from the likes of Silver Lake Partners, SoftBank, and Sequoia Capital, among other venture capital firms. India follows an April-March financial year. Bengaluru-based Byju's raised $500 million in a private equity funding round led by […]

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