This business has drawn investment worth more than 1.5 billion with new creditors including Google, Tiger Global, GGV Capital and Matrix Partners.

Although businesses such as Oyo, Zomato and Urban Ladder are cutting down on their employees, here's a group of entrepreneurs on a hiring indulgence. UpGrad, Vedantu, Simplilearn, Dronstudy, Udemy and CollegeDekho, all of the above which are part of the ed-tech field, are looking to come up with at least 3,000 new jobs over the span of next year focusing on tech, product and distribution. Since there is a wave of investment in this field, various private equity funds are involving in investments which in-turn is fetching bigger check sizes with the ed-tech companies growing volume says Amitabh Jhingan , partner of EY Parthenon International education company. EY Parthenon has attracted investments worth more than 1.5 billion which has bought new investors to the game such as Google, Tiger Global, Matrix Partners and GGV Money who has invested in at least one ed-tech company like Byju’s, Vendantu, Toddle and Unacademy in the past two months.

UpGrad by Ronnie Screwvala, in the last one year, the headcount has risen to 1,000 with its business raising the headcount more. The company is rising each year at 100percent growth rate and plan to boost up three times more next year added co-founder Mayank Kumar and sketching on the extension of its reach to more than 25 Indian towns. Profoundly, these ed- tech firms are on entry level recruitment with an expample of UpGrad recruiting over 200 graduates and postgraduates from 20 colleges such as IITs, BITS Pilani and 115 lateral hires in the last two months. Chief Executive Krishnan Kumar states that in the recent trend, Digital economy is gaining momentum resulting in number of learners taking up course in new-age fields such as info, AI, cybersecurity, and so on.

Vedantu, with earnings of about 85 million so far has started the idea of customized tutoring in LIVE. Vedantu’s CEO and co-founder Vamsi Krishnan adds that this company will scale up opportunities as it reaches four times more expansion and looks forward to adding about 30-40percent of employees this year.

Vedantu is now looking to extend to lower grades across new categories such as early childhood from kindergarten to grade five.

CollegeDekho hires more than 700 staff and has earned 13million from investors such as GirnarSoft and London based Man Capital since its founding in 2015.

Bootstrapped Dronstudy, like other ed-tech startups, is looking to improve R&D, tech and marketing teams too.

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