The new kid in town

Edtech products and companies are still looked at with suspicion by brick-and-mortar players in India's education space

Even as India grapples with improving its brick-and-mortar institutes, the new kid in town is the edtech (technology in education) sector that is making inroads into the country.
 
While working on a two-part series on this relatively unknown creature, I learnt to my absolute astonishment that in a span of less than a decade, a total of close to 4,600 startups have jumped into the fray. Venture capital in excess of $2 billion has flown into Indian edtech companies since 2014, far lower than in China (over $12 billion) and the USA (over $8 billion) but more than the