Education is the most basic right of every individual. With a literacy rate of just 74%, India is far behind than many developing countries. To aid the growth of education, many start-ups like Unacademy, Byju’s and Vedanutu have taken matters into their hands.
Doubtnut is an app that helps students from sixth-grade to high school understand and solve math and science problems essentially in local languages. The app uses the camera of the smartphone to take a picture of the problem. Then it uses machine learning and image recognition to provide a solution in the form of a short video. A student can click a picture of the problem and share it via the Doubtnut app, website, Youtube or WhatsApp. This will provide them with a short video that will show the steps required to tackle the problem.
The start-up got the Series A funding from Chinese giants and PUBG developers, Tencent. Existing investors include Omidyar Network India, AET Japan, Ankit Nagori (founder of fitness start-up Cure.Fit) and Sequoia Capital India, who also participated in the financing round. After the recent financing round, the two-year-old start-up has raised $18.5 million and is valued at around $50 million.
