Teachmint partners with YC-backed Malaysian edtech firm to power live classes

Teachmint, an India-based education infrastructure provider and teaching platform, has partnered with Malaysia’s Pandai, a Y Combinator-backed edtech startup, for live classroom solutions in the Southeast Asian country.

From left: Teachmint co-founders Payoj Jain, Divyansh Bordia, Anshuman Kumar, and Mihir Gupta / Photo credit: Teachmint

Teachmint provides a video-as-a-service offering for edtech startups across the globe. Through its proprietary plug-and-play live class solutions, Teachmint reduces the go-to-market time for these edtech players.

The platform recently partnered with Dhaka-based startup Shikho to power live classes for students in Bangladesh.

Teachmint is also in talks with players in Indonesia and the Philippines for similar partnerships, Mihir Gupta, the startup’s CEO and co-founder, told Tech in Asia. “We are also actively looking to acquire startups [that] support teacher and institute enablement in the next couple of months,” he added.

Founded in 2020, Teachmint is a mobile and video-first teaching platform that has so far enabled 1.5 million teachers in India to digitize their classrooms. Its proprietary video technology allows teachers to take live classes, record and store lectures, automate attendance, and conduct polls.

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So far, the startup has secured US$40 million in funding from investors such as Learn Capital, CM Ventures, Better Capital, and Lightspeed India Partners. It is in talks to raise a series B in a couple of months.