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12 Indian kids to pitch their ideas to Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists

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These kids will also visit the Waymo facility to experience driverless cars and talk to their product managers. 12 Indian children between 6-14 years old are set to head out to Silicon Valley in the United States (US) to pitch their planned applications to investors (VCs). WhiteHat Jr, an EdTech startup that instructs coding to little youngsters, has declared its first-since forever Silicon Valley Program victors. The children have been shortlisted from the thorough rundown of more than 7000 sections from across India.  The week-long excursion will probably occur in May, where the children will get a chance to try out their plans to VCs, including Nexus Venture Partners and Owl Ventures. They will likewise meet some prominent Silicon Valley business people to learn exercises on a business venture. Their agenda additionally incorporates a visit to Googleplex and a collaboration with their specialists.  These children will visit the Waymo office to encounter driverless vehicles and conve

This edtech startup is looking to hire 1,500 teachers and 400 other staff immediately⁠— CEO says the business is doubling every month

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  In a meeting with Business Insider, Karan Bajaj, CEO of Whitehat Jr, said that the organization is multiplying the number of workers and educators to meet the 100% month-on-month increment in understudy enlistments.  For the non-showing jobs, the startup is hoping to recruit workers across spaces like deals, educational program creation, activities.  The base pay we are thinking about for section level workers is ₹500,000 per annum.  The Covid pandemic has guided a time of internet learning. As understudies move too far off learning arrangement, Indian tech startup Whitehat Jr has increase employing to meet the flood in enlistments.  In a meeting with Business Insider, Karan Bajaj, CEO of Whitehat Jr, said that the organization is multiplying the number of workers and instructors to meet the 100% month-on-month increment in understudy enlistments.  "We have 400 workers and 1,500 instructors as of now, and we are multiplying on the two fronts. On the off chance that we take a gan

This online coding platform records 100% monthly growth post-COVID-19

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  In addition to metro cities, WhiteHat Jr. is seeing great traction from tier-II and tier-III cities as well, which substantiates the fact that coding is fast emerging as a viral phenomenon among kids and parents in our country As more guardians and youngsters are getting acclimated with web-based learning post-COVID-19 lockdown, the web-based coding stage WhiteHat Jr. has seen an unexpected flood in the foothold. The one-on-one virtual coding stage for youngsters, matured between six to 14, intends to engage the cutting edge to become makers versus purchasers of innovation.  "We were before developing at a 40 per cent month-on-month development rate, and since the lockdown, this has quickened to 100 per cent month-on-month development. We're likewise employing forcefully to expand limits, get more instructors ready, and direct more day by day classes for the understudies. We're at present looking to installed 2,000 or more educators and 400 representatives consistently t

Why kids should learn to code; all you need to know about it

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  1. For what reason should youngsters realise coding?  As we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it has gotten fundamental for everybody to remain refreshed with current and arising advancements. The development of bleeding-edge tech will require the group of people yet to come to be furnished with some essential tech abilities since early on to maintain a strategic distance from repetition in future. The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has anticipated that 65% of youngsters entering grade school today will at last wind up working in totally new position types that don't exist yet. What's more, 65% of the present positions won't exist only a long time from now. Essentially, any work that doesn't include creation will be robotised.  2. How might the local instruction area be made mindful of the significance of coding?  Coding for youngsters is a viral wonder in urban areas, and children from across India between 6 to 14 years are tryin

[YS Learn] How WhiteHat Jr got its first cheque of $1.3M and how it found a $300M exit with BYJU’S

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Looking to raise your first round of funding? But do not know what works and what doesn’t? Here are some stories on how startups were able to clinch the deal. This time we look at WhiteHat Jr and their journey to being acquired by BYJU’S for $300 million. The excursion of WhiteHat Jr is remarkable. Since the time edtech unicorn BYJU'S obtained it for $300 million, the startup has been in the news.  Established in 2018 by previous Discovery Networks CEO Karan Bajaj, WhiteHat Jr offers AI courses to youngsters matured six to 14 years. The Mumbai-based ed-tech startup expects to enable kids, so they see themselves as makers. WhiteHat Jr has been income positive, with 84% of instructors younger than 35 acquiring between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1.5 lakh a month. The continuous increase is to coordinate the developing base of understudies across numerous nations, including India, the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.  Karan had begun with introductory financing of $1.3 million fro