{"id":1467,"date":"2020-10-16T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2020-10-23T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T00:14:57","slug":"analyst-report-investing-in-personalized-learning-platform-byju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/16\/analyst-report-investing-in-personalized-learning-platform-byju\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Report: Investing in Personalized Learning Platform: BYJU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2020\/10\/disney-us-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2020\/10\/disney-us-logo.png 496w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2020\/10\/disney-us-logo-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since its founding in 2011, BYJU has expanded from India\u2019s largest K-12 education app to acquire North American ed-tech companies. Today, BYJU is the world\u2019s most successful ed-tech unicorn company currently valued at 10.0 B + within the global ed-tech market, which is predicted to reach $ 404 B by 2025. BYJU continues to not only corner the ed-tech market in India, ranked #2 in the world but has already begun to expand into the U.S. mark, ranked #3 in the world, by acquiring OSMO, a U.S. startup that makes learning games for young children.<br><br>As a public school educator, I took a particular interest in the company\u2019s online learning platform as it delivers high quality, engaging, and accessible education. The company&#8217;s platform makes use of original multi-media content, watch-and-learn videos, rich animations, and interactive simulations that make learning contextual, visual, and practical, enabling individual students to effectively receive a personalized educational experience. It has scaled a learning model in a profitable way by focusing on content and teaching.&nbsp;<br><br>After diving into the market research on learning platform companies in ed-tech, I have identified BYJU as a learning platform and company worthy of significant investment. BYJU is a privately held later stage VC company backed by 24 investors. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) got a 7X return on their 2016 investment of $50 million. As the company shifts focus to capture U.S. markets, I have provided a critical review to support continued investment in the growth of this company. I have strived to keep my analysis under the 2000 words criteria to provide a concise report on this exciting opportunity. Please have a look at the site <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechanalystreport.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/edtechanalystreport.weebly.com<\/a>  I look forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its founding in 2011, BYJU has expanded from India\u2019s largest K-12 education app to acquire North American ed-tech companies. Today, BYJU is the world\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/10\/16\/analyst-report-investing-in-personalized-learning-platform-byju\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Analyst Report: Investing in Personalized Learning Platform: BYJU<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":74895,"featured_media":1679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1-analyst-report","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}