Delhi, India-based ed-tech startup Little Leap, which is catering content appropriate for different age groups. raised US$ 360,000 in a seed funding round on 12 July 2021.
Investors: The funding round was led by ah! Ventures, with participation from First Cheque VC, LetsVenture, and Good Capital VC. This is ah! Ventures’s 16th investment this year. It also plans to make 50 more investments in 2021, totalling over US$ 20 million.
About Little Leap
Founded in 2019 by Vishal Gupta, Little Leap is a live online holistic development platform. It aims to democratise top-tier International, IB standard education for every child helping them build strong learning foundations and helping them to develop essential soft skills, life skills, leadership skills and creativity. It provides refined holistic learning with a mission to train future leaders.
The children learn through playful and engaging activities to enable skill development, interactive worksheets, stories and app-based activities to internalize the learnings. Little Leap also conducts competitions to help children implement the skills learnt in a competitive environment. It offers 3 programs right now –
The startup claims to have developed and field-tested its research-backed curriculum with a large segment of parents and children with its personalised and affordable programs. It also claims to have been running at 100 percent parent satisfaction rate and industry-leading repeat rates.
What the founder has to say: “With Little Leap, we aim to empower students to become well-rounded individuals with high levels of emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, social warmth, grit, curiosity, and creative thinking irrespective of family or schooling background. We hope that as students become confident and comfortable in their skin, they can become smart leaders and changemakers of the future. The laughter and smile children give us in our sessions is something we hold very close to our heart and nothing matches the satisfaction of seeing children learn what real education looks like.” — Vishal Gupta, Founder, Little Leap.
What the investors have to say: “We believe non-academic skills are equally important for shaping children’s personality, which will help them evolve into successful individuals and better human beings. A platform such as Little Leap evangelises this and we are confident that their new-age approach, coupled with the founders’ passion, will go a long way in adding value to this ever-growing segment.” — Anubha Prasad, Venture Partner, ah! Ventures.
“To Little Leap, Vishal brings a rare combination – a personal conviction that he is doing what desperately needs to be done, along with a highly analytical, systems-driven growth process,” Mohit Satyanand, Lead Investor, LetsVenture.
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