{"id":961627,"date":"2025-09-15T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961627"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:11:02","slug":"driven-by-ai-edtech-funding-rebounds-with-5x-surge-in-h1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/15\/driven-by-ai-edtech-funding-rebounds-with-5x-surge-in-h1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven by AI, edtech funding rebounds with 5X surge in H1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s edtech sector witnessed a rebound in the first half of 2025 after a period of slowdown. Funding activity surged more than fivefold year-on-year, with capital largely flowing into companies focused on study-abroad services, workforce skilling platforms and startups leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to expand into language learning and vernacular education. <\/p>\n<p>In the January-June period, the sector raised $120 million (about Rs 1,059 crore at current exchange rates) through 11 deals, up from $22 million across seven deals a year earlier., according to Venture Intelligence data. However, the fundraising was still lower than the $230 million raised in the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s edtech sector witnessed a rebound in the first half of 2025 after a period of slowdown. Funding activity surged more than fivefold year-on-year, with capital largely flowing into companies focused on study-abroad services, workforce skilling platforms and startups leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to expand into language learning and vernacular education. In the January-June period, the sector raised $120 million (about Rs 1,059 crore at current exchange rates) through 11 deals, up from $22 million across seven deals a year earlier., according to Venture Intelligence data. However, the fundraising was still lower than the $230 million raised in the first [&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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961627","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\/961627","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=961627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}