Classplus

Industry-first unified platform lets coaching institutes have their own app to manage all their tasks and reach students across the country.

Covers attendance tracking, live classes and test/assessment management for institutes.

Turns a traditionally offline coaching/tuition business into an online, mobile-first operation.

Classplus tied up with coaching institutes across tier II and III cities, extending the SaaS model.

Classplus lets coaching institutes, tuition centres and private tutors to take their traditionally offline class management setups online with a mobile-first product.

help teachers – creators, in this case – monetise their skills by creating online courses, helping in content management and distribution to students, who were the users.

Classplus's software suite manages class communication, payments, assessments, online-learning programmes and attendance on institutes' behalf, cutting the time institutes spend on management tasks so they can focus on teaching.

A 600+ person Classplus team connects a nationwide community of coaching institutes on the platform, absorbing their routine administrative work.

Each coaching institute gets its own branded app built on the Classplus platform to reach and manage students.

A core activity is equipping tutors with digital skills and tooling — building online courses, student communication channels, and hosting courses online.

Classplus integrates some of its own products into Testbook — e.g. Supercoaching content from top teachers on the Classplus platform now also contributes to Testbook.

Classplus channels freshly raised capital primarily into improving its existing technology platform, per its founder.

Classplus's team of 600+ professionals is the human-capital resource running the platform and supporting its nationwide network of coaching institutes.

Classplus's core resource is its own technology platform, positioned as the 'Shopify of edtech,' giving any tutor end-to-end tools for attendance, live classes and assessments.

Classplus's technology and growth have been funded by investors based in five different countries.

Classplus's existing network of over 100,000 coaching institutes across 1,100+ Indian cities is itself a resource, underpinning referrals, cross-sell and brand credibility.

Classplus acquired a controlling stake in test-prep platform Testbook via a September 2022 secondary transaction valued at INR 67.8 Cr.

Alongside VC fund Pravega Ventures, Classplus infused INR 50 Cr into GyanDhan — a fintech that has disbursed over INR 7,000 Cr in study-abroad education loans — to increase its stake.

Classplus acquired edtech venture Saarthi; in August 2023 Saarthi's cofounder and investors accused Classplus of cheating and criminal breach of trust over the deal.

Classplus acquired coaching brand Abhinay Maths; in March 2024 founder Abhinay Sharma filed an FIR against the Classplus founders alleging cheating, forgery and copyright infringement.

Institutes pay an annual subscription for access to the Classplus tech stack, tiered by services/scale.

Classplus additionally takes a cut of the course/package fees institutes sell through the platform.

In FY24, Classplus's employee benefit costs were its single largest expense category, as total expenses were cut to INR 165.5 Cr from INR 211.6 Cr the year before.

In FY22, Classplus's cost base drove losses to INR 164 Cr against just INR 26 Cr of revenue — a burn rate investors chose to fund through.