Edtech startup Arivihan has raised $4.17 million in a Pre-Series A funding round, led by Prosus and Accel, with support from GSF Investors.
The money will help the company expand into three more states, improve its AI technology and language options, and strengthen its marketing and distribution efforts.
“When we went to tier II cities, we found that 65% of the students were from Hindi-medium backgrounds. There weren’t many platforms catering to them, as most didn’t offer content or doubt-solving support in Hindi, especially at an affordable price,” cofounder and chief executive Ritesh Singh Chandel.
“If you use any LLM directly, they are very general. They don’t provide answers tailored to our students’ syllabus, their level of understanding, or their language. That’s why we use our open-source model, which we have fine-tuned with millions of data points derived from our syllabus to suit our students,” he said.
Dhruv Gupta, investor at Prosus, said, “At Prosus, we’ve been actively exploring breakthrough applications of AI across sectors, and education remains one of the most compelling frontiers.”
“Edtech in India has long struggled with cookie-cutter solutions and often unsustainable business models. The advent of GenAI changes both dramatically, which has been visible in Arivihan’s traction and student outcomes so far,” said Anagh Prasad, investor at Accel.
Arivihan was founded in 2024 by Ritesh Singh Chandel, Sonu Kumar, and Rushabh Kothari. The company is based in Bengaluru.
It is an AI-powered learning platform built for students from Tier II cities and rural areas, offering automated coaching with interactive video lessons, instant doubt solving, and personalized AI-based study plans.
Arivihan helps students get ready for Class 12 State Board exams, CBSE, and NEET. The company says over 150 of its students scored above 90% in their Class 12 exams, with 4 students making it to the state’s top 10. It also claims that students showed a 42% improvement in just 30 days.
The startup is now growing its academic and product teams and working to reach more students in areas that have limited access to quality education.
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