{"id":998448,"date":"2026-03-16T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998448"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:53:29","slug":"upgrad-to-acquire-unacademy-in-all-stock-deal-gaurav-munjal-to-stay-on-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/upgrad-to-acquire-unacademy-in-all-stock-deal-gaurav-munjal-to-stay-on-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"upGrad to acquire Unacademy in all-stock deal; Gaurav Munjal to stay on as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech major upGrad has signed a term sheet to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock transaction, a move that could mark one of the biggest consolidation plays in India\u2019s online education sector. <\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed deal, Unacademy\u2019s co-founder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal will continue to lead the company and focus on building online education products for learners in India and globally, Ronnie Screwvala, co-founder and chairman of upGrad, said on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edtech major upGrad has signed a term sheet to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock transaction, a move that could mark one of the biggest consolidation plays in India\u2019s online education sector. Under the proposed deal, Unacademy\u2019s co-founder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal will continue to lead the company and focus on building online education products for learners in India and globally, Ronnie Screwvala, co-founder and chairman of upGrad, said on Sunday.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998448","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=998448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}