The acquisition is expected to drive growth and support a number of business areas, including strategy, product design, B2B enterprise, and operations.
Scaler, an edtech startup, announced the purchase of Delhi-based education platform Pepcoding for an unknown sum to strengthen its business environment on Wednesday.
The acquisition is expected to drive growth and support a number of business areas, including strategy, product design, B2B enterprise, and operations.
Scaler has made four acquisitions in the last two years, including AppliedRoots, Coding Minutes, and Coding Elements.
Sumeet Malik, a cofounder of Pepcoding, has joined the company as a teacher and content producer to assist improve the learner experience, particularly in the low-level design (LLD) curriculum. Other Pepcoding colleagues have also been hired as full-time employees at Scaler, where they will work on a variety of teams.
“Sumeet’s team has demonstrated an exceptional ability to remain true to its core capability of transforming the learning experiences of young engineering students.” Their experience with undergraduate students would be beneficial to the Scaler School of Technology, our newly created residential undergraduate curriculum. “Their diverse talent pool and Sumeet’s extensive industry expertise will help accelerate the pace at which we are working to achieve our vision and mission,” said Scaler cofounder Abhimanyu Saxena.
Scaler is supported by well-known worldwide investors such as Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Worldwide, and Lightrock India, and has expanded its operations in India and the United States.
“Like Scaler, we are obsessively focused on the success of our students and firmly believe that the country has enough raw talent to one day build products and companies that will dominate the world, similar to what companies like Google, Microsoft, and Uber have done.” “All they need is the right guidance and access to opportunities,” Malik explained.
