37-Year-Old Former School Teacher Is India’s Newest Billionaire
- Byju’s valuation hit $5.7 billion after latest funding round
- His learning app is riding the smartphone and edutech boom
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India’s newest billionaire is a former classroom teacher who developed an education app that’s grown to a valuation of almost $6 billion in about seven years.
Byju Raveendran joined the rarefied club after his Think & Learn Pvt scored $150 million in funding earlier this month. That deal conferred a value of $5.7 billion on the company in which the founder owns more than 21%, people familiar with the matter said. Its closing coincided with the announcement that the company’s Byju’s app -- named after the founder -- will team up with Walt Disney Co. and take its service to American shores by early 2020.