Doubtnut
Doubtnut is an Indian interactive online tutoring app which was started by Tanushree Nagori and husband Aditya Shankar, in 2016.[4] In 2009, the couple had started giving offline tutoring to grade 9 to 12 students, where they taught mathematics and science. Doubtnut is available as an Android application or by accessing its official website
Type | Private[1] |
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Industry | Online Education |
Fate | Active |
Founded | 1st July,2016 |
Founders |
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Headquarters | , |
Area served | India[1] |
Products | Doubtnut |
Parent | Class 21A Technologies Private Limited[3] |
Website | Doubtnut.com |
Operation
The platform uses image recognition technologies to provide solutions of some mathematical and science questions.[2][5] To find the solution to a question, one has to upload an image depicting the question. The app extracts text from the image and tries to match it in its database of questions which are pre-answered, having recorded video solutions. If it finds a match, then the result is provided to the user otherwise it asks the user to post their question publicly for tutors available on the platform to provide a video explaining their query.
Funding
Doubtnut received its first funding of US$100K from Ankit Nagori of Cure.fit in April, 2017. [6]
Omidyar Network and WaterBridge have invested about ₹35,000,000 ($471,243.68) on Doubtnut.[7]
In January 2020, the company raised $15 million in Series A round of funding from China's Tencent Holdings, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Omidyar Network India.[8][9]
References
- "Doubtnut". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- "Doubtnut: Doing more than maths". Forbes India. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- https://doubtnut.com/terms-and-conditions
- Kumar, Ravi Prakash (1 April 2018). "Doubtnut gives students free video solution to their maths problems". Retrieved 2 March 2019 – via Business Standard.
- "Doubtnut - Funding, Financials, Valuation & Investors". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
- "WaterBridge, Omidyar invest in ed-tech startup Doubtnut". VCCircle. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- "Byju's backer Tencent leads Series A funding in ed-tech startup DoubtNut". VCCircle. 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- "Two-year-old Indian edtech startup Doubtnut raises $15M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-02-03.