Govt exam focussed Test-prep app GradeUp raises $7 mn from Times Internet

The start-up will use the funds to scale the offering and grow the newly-launched Live Classroom product

Test preparation start-up Gradeup, which focuses on government services examinations, has raised $7 million from Times Internet, an arm of publisher Bennett Coleman and Co. This takes the total funding raised by the seven-year-old firm to $10 million.

New Delhi-based Gradestick Learning Pvt Ltd, which runs Gradeup, was set up in December 2012 by Shobhit Bhatnagar, Sanjeev Kumar and Vibhu Bhushan. The company was incubated at TLabs, the start-up incubator of Times Internet. Times Internet is also an investor in Byju’s.

“Gradeup has been able to build the largest online student communities in India, and we are excited to be partners in