{"id":1035749,"date":"2026-09-16T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035749"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:25:08","slug":"edtech-unicorn-lead-group-targets-profitability-by-q1fy28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/edtech-unicorn-lead-group-targets-profitability-by-q1fy28\/","title":{"rendered":"Edtech unicorn LEAD Group targets profitability by Q1FY28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech unicorn LEAD Group is hoping to turn profitable in FY27 r early FY28 as it doubles the pace of revenue growth to about 20%. The firm is planning an IPO by FY28-FY29, though the timeline isn\u2019t a strict one.\u201c If the business can achieve close to 20% growth in FY27 and continue to improve EBITDA, then we should be in a much stronger position to evaluate the public markets in FY28-FY29,\u201d Mehta said. LEAD Group\u2019s last institutional fundraise was in January 2022, when it closed its Series E round led by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures, valuing the company at $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech unicorn LEAD Group is hoping to turn profitable in FY27 r early FY28 as it doubles the pace of revenue growth to about 20%. The firm is planning an IPO by FY28-FY29, though the timeline isn\u2019t a strict one.\u201c If the business can achieve close to 20% growth in FY27 and continue to improve EBITDA, then we should be in a much stronger position to evaluate the public markets in FY28-FY29,\u201d Mehta said. LEAD Group\u2019s last institutional fundraise was in January 2022, when it closed its Series E round led by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures, valuing the company [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035749","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=1035749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035789,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035749\/revisions\/1035789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}