{"id":985647,"date":"2026-01-16T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985647"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:54:36","slug":"after-failed-acquisition-talks-with-upgrad-unacademy-pivots-back-to-online-test-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/after-failed-acquisition-talks-with-upgrad-unacademy-pivots-back-to-online-test-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"After failed acquisition talks with Upgrad, Unacademy pivots back to online test prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based test preparation startup Unacademy is refocusing on its core business after its acquisition talks with Upgrad fell through. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the shift, Unacademy will exit its company-operated offline centres and convert them into franchise partnerships. The move will result in \u201cone of the healthiest cost structures in the sector\u201d by April, cofounder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal claimed in an internal email to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based test preparation startup Unacademy is refocusing on its core business after its acquisition talks with Upgrad fell through. As part of the shift, Unacademy will exit its company-operated offline centres and convert them into franchise partnerships. The move will result in \u201cone of the healthiest cost structures in the sector\u201d by April, cofounder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal claimed in an internal email to employees.<\/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-985647","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\/985647","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=985647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}