Bangalore based mostly ed-tech startup, XOOG has raised $150K in pre-seed spherical with a collection of institutional and particular person buyers investing within the startup. Participants within the spherical have been Seetharaman Thiruvenkatam, Kavitha Seetharaman, Prasad Prabhakaran and Prashanth Prabhakaran. The spherical additionally noticed additional participation from current investor Marwari Catalysts.
The firm claims to utilise the seed capital for enhancing the worth proposition by enhancing the ecosystem for expertise showcasing and enrichment, to onboard extra customers utilizing efficiency advertising and marketing and progress hack, broaden their product engineering workforce and to speed up its product-led progress to be able to broaden its footprint in India in addition to globally.
Founded by Karishma Seetharaman and Ritvik Raj Prasannakumar in 2020, XOOG claims to supply a Safe Social platform with talent golf equipment for college students to showcase, compete and earn rewards.
“XOOG helps students showcase their skills, their daily learnings, achievements and progress to the world, get rated by their peers, enhance their future and earn scholarships and rewards in return,” Seetharaman, Co-founder and CTO, XOOG stated. Accelerated by Marwari Catalysts, XOOG was chosen out of 500 startups within the accelerator’s cohort program, ‘Thrive’.
“A range of viable career options are coming up in India, beyond the traditional vocations of engineering and medicine. And with the opening of new frontiers in the Indian education sector that has paved the way for a comprehensive vision on education, XOOG is perfectly positioned in providing a platform for talented students to showcase their skills and as a result giving a new definition to the education system of India,” Seetharaman, MD of Shri Hari Venkateshwara Paper Mills stated.
With inputs from PTI.
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