Vedantu

How it happened

Vedantu was a prominent Indian online-tutoring startup offering live classes for school students, crossing the $1B mark in a September 2021 Series E led by Tiger Global and Coatue at the pandemic edtech boom's height. As classrooms reopened and edtech funding collapsed, it cut more than 1,100 jobs, raised only a tiny ~$2.3M round in 2024 after three dry years, and was dropped from unicorn lists in early 2024. Employee reviews trace the squeeze from inside: staff described layoff rounds arriving almost yearly, appraisals shrinking toward zero, and six-day weeks of target-driven, 12-hour calling shifts, even as reviewers across roles noted salaries still landed on time.

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