{"id":1006655,"date":"2026-05-04T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006655"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:14:08","slug":"upgrad-to-acquire-unacademy-for-rs-2055-crore-90-below-peak-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/upgrad-to-acquire-unacademy-for-rs-2055-crore-90-below-peak-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"UpGrad to acquire Unacademy for Rs 2,055 crore, 90% below peak valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upskilling platform UpGrad is set to acquire Unacademy in an all-stock deal after many months of negotiations, valuing the Bengaluru-based edtech at 2,055 crore ($218 million), said people with knowledge of the. <\/p>\n<p>The deal will likely peg Unacademy, which started life as a Youtube tutorial channel, more than 90% lower than its peak valuation of $3.4 billion, ascribed to it during the 2021 funding boom. <\/p>\n<p>Unacademy is expected to have 900-950 crore in cash on its books at closing, a key draw for UpGrad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upskilling platform UpGrad is set to acquire Unacademy in an all-stock deal after many months of negotiations, valuing the Bengaluru-based edtech at 2,055 crore ($218 million), said people with knowledge of the. The deal will likely peg Unacademy, which started life as a Youtube tutorial channel, more than 90% lower than its peak valuation of $3.4 billion, ascribed to it during the 2021 funding boom. Unacademy is expected to have 900-950 crore in cash on its books at closing, a key draw for UpGrad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006688,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006655\/revisions\/1006688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}