February 08, 2021
× Bengaluru-based edtech start-up Newton School has raised $5 million in a Series A round led by RTP Global.
The funding round saw participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Prophetic Ventures, and Unacademy co-founders Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh. Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CRED’s Kunal Shah, Freshworks’ Girish Mathrubootham, Udaan’s Sujeet Kumar and Razorpay founders Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, along with a slew of angel investors, also participated in the round.
Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneurs and college friends Nishant Chandra and Siddharth Maheshwari, Newton School is an edtech platform that enables people to be highly skilled software developers.
All-female tech programme launched by this start-up will help women re-enter workforce
All-female tech programme launched by this start-up will help women re-enter workforce
Newton School has introduced a tech programme exclusively for women which will help them in skill-building and re-entering the workforce.
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UPDATED: January 18, 2021 15:30 IST
Newton School has launched an all-women tech programme for those who are ready to re-join the workforce.
The course that begins mid-January will not only help women to re-join the workforce after maternity leave but also enable them to switch their careers and join the tech industry.
Newton School is an online edtech platform that trains people to be highly skilled software developers and gets them placed in top companies as frontend, backend, and full-stack software developers among other roles.