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UpGrad

Edtech · Mumbai, India · Founded 2015 Unicorn

An online higher education platform providing various programs to it's clients

Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Revenue

$100–500M

Latest reported FY

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Headcount

2–5k

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

Investors

16 investors on UpGrad's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

Unilazer Ventures

Series B+ 15 investors entered at this stage

Lupa Systems

Ronnie Screwvala

IIFL Seed Ventures Fund

Kaizenvest

Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office

Temasek

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

IIFL

Bharti

LN Mittal Family Office

Artisan Partners

Bodhi Tree Asset Management

International Finance Corporation

Mayank Kumar

360 ONE Asset

Ownership

Who owns UpGrad

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

58% Founders

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UpGrad mafia

Startups founded by UpGrad alumni

Former UpGrad employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

AJAnkit JaipuriaIndia

Marius WesthoffGermany

Himanshu PeriwalIndia

Signal score65

GoodmeetingsEst. 2020

Srinivasan NarayanIndia

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Global footprint

Where UpGrad has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

32 countries with
team presence

🇮🇳 India95.9%

🇻🇳 Vietnam1.1%

🇺🇸 United States0.8%

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.4%

🇸🇬 Singapore0.2%

Top 5 of 32 shown

Web traffic by country

1.6M monthly visits
across markets

🇮🇳 India71.5%

🇻🇳 Vietnam6.8%

🇸🇬 Singapore2.3%

🇺🇸 United States1.7%

🇮🇩 Indonesia1.2%

Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of UpGrad's talent

Dealroom maps UpGrad's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

24 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org

DimensionScore

AI Talent

Engineering

Product

Go-to-market

Leadership

Research

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Capital deployed

UpGrad's 17 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where UpGrad appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

17 deals across UpGrad's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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02 · Portfolio market map

UpGrad's portfolio, mapped.

Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

Stage

Period

17 of 17 deals

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about UpGrad

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about UpGrad on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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