upGrad, India’s leading Online Higher Education Company, has acquired CohortPlus, India’s largest and the most active community on Product Management and one of India’s largest communities on Data Science.
India has seen more than 400% rise in demand for data science professionals across varied industry sectors at a time when the supply of such talent witnesses a slow growth, said Talent Supply Index [TSI] by Belong. Built with the vision of becoming a career partner for people looking to transition into new age careers and having grown organically to 31K+ community members, CohortPlus brings with itself rich consumer insights, which will enable upGrad to enhance its offerings for the learners.
Ronnie Screwvala and Mayank Kumar, Co-founders, upGrad in a joint statement, said
Employees in India are looking forward to picking up new age skills to make themselves more relevant in the current workforce. upGrad’s highly engaging online learning solution along with CohortPlus’s deep penetration in the community of Data Scientists and Product Managers, will allow us to reach a much larger and relevant audience.
CohortPlus is an online community founded in 2015 by Srinivasan Narayan, which brings together like-minded career aspirants in a single community platform, where they can network with each other, ask and clarify doubts and be abreast of the latest events in the field of data science and product management. Its members comprise of 31100+ professionals from around the world, from companies like Google, Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Uber, Amazon, Practo, Zomato etc. It is one of India’s largest and most active communities in Data Science and Product Management.
Members can post their questions and get various perspectives from industry professionals and can also get assistance for job interviews. The 3 member team of CohortPlus is based out of Bangalore. Today this community is one of the largest and the fastest growing community in this domain and continues to grow organically. CohortPlus had raised angel investment from Manish Maheshwari [Twitter India MD], Alok Mittal [Indifi Founder] and Sujatha Kumar in 2015.
Srinivasan Narayan, Founder & CEO, CohortPlus, said
With upGrad’s support, CohortPlus intends to build a proprietary go-to platform for anyone looking to take a step up in their careers. We are looking forward to widen the joint vision of building careers of tomorrow and becoming transformational partners for those looking to up-skill and move up in their careers.
About upGrad
upGrad was founded in early 2015 by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli and Ravijot Chugh, with an aim of empowering individuals to reach their full professional potential by providing them with formal educational programs.
The company provides programs in the areas of Data Science, Technology and Management to college students and working professionals. These programs are created by partnering with a number of top academic institutions, including BITS Pilani, IIIT-Bangalore, Cambridge Judge Business School of Executive Education and MICA. The company also has collaborations with some of industry’s best such as Google, Flipkart, Gramener to name a few in order to create a cohesive and practical learning experience.
upGrad has powered over 3 lakh careers since its inception. The company has been awarded the ‘Best Tech for Education’ by IAMAI in 2019. The company received the ‘Best Education Brands’ award by Economic Times and has made it to LinkedIn’s ‘Top 25 Startups’ in 2018. For more information, please visit upGrad.