Education start-up LeverageEdu raises funding from Blume, DSG Consumer

LeverageEdu, an education-technology start-up, has raised pre-series A funding from Blume Ventures and DSG Consumers Partners, it announced on Monday.

This follows a seed round raised by the New Delhi-based start-up in 2017, led by Anand Sankeshwar, the managing director of VRL logistics. 

LeverageEdu is a platform for students looking for career advice and counselling. It has mentors from different streams that are matched intelligently with students seeking advice. The platform is popular among students looking to join foreign universities, with about 80,000 visiting it every month, said co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Akshay Chaturvedi.

"Over the past 12 months, we have grown