{"id":984557,"date":"2026-01-10T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984557"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:02:49","slug":"upgrad-backs-out-of-unacademy-deal-citing-valuation-and-business-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/upgrad-backs-out-of-unacademy-deal-citing-valuation-and-business-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"UpGrad backs out of Unacademy deal citing valuation and business concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech firm UpGrad has called off its proposed acquisition of Unacademy at a valuation of around USD 290 million, citing valuation concerns and business-related challenges within the Temasek and SoftBank-backed startup, according to sources. <\/p>\n<p>The valuation of Unacademy, which had peaked at USD 3.4 billion in 2021, has now dropped by over 90 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech firm UpGrad has called off its proposed acquisition of Unacademy at a valuation of around USD 290 million, citing valuation concerns and business-related challenges within the Temasek and SoftBank-backed startup, according to sources. The valuation of Unacademy, which had peaked at USD 3.4 billion in 2021, has now dropped by over 90 per cent.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984557","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=984557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}