{"id":836157,"date":"2024-07-23T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=836157"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:38:59","slug":"bengaluru-based-edtech-startup-claimed-to-be-third-largest-student-community-shuts-down-founders-to-return-70-capital-to-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/23\/bengaluru-based-edtech-startup-claimed-to-be-third-largest-student-community-shuts-down-founders-to-return-70-capital-to-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru-based edtech startup, claimed to be third-largest student community, shuts down; founders to return 70% capital to investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elevation Capital-backed upskilling and job finding platform Bluelearn has shut down operations and will return 70% of the capital it raised to its investors. Talking about the initial journey, founder Harish Uthayakumar said that he, along with co-founder Shreyans Sancheti, started BlueLearn in their third year of college as a Telegram group, which later became what he claims to be India&#8217;s largest student community, with over 250,000 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elevation Capital-backed upskilling and job finding platform Bluelearn has shut down operations and will return 70% of the capital it raised to its investors. Talking about the initial journey, founder Harish Uthayakumar said that he, along with co-founder Shreyans Sancheti, started BlueLearn in their third year of college as a Telegram group, which later became what he claims to be India&#8217;s largest student community, with over 250,000 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836157","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}