Why Corporate Gurukul won’t go 100% online 📚

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Daily Capsule | 19th April 2022

Hello Readers,

Corporate Gurukul, a global edtech venture headquartered in Singapore, believes that offline teaching is the best option for both tutors and students. As a result, when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, business came to a screeching halt as the company did not have any online offerings.

"We had to pivot to the online model as our revenues had come down by one-fifth," says Rajesh Panda, Founder and CEO of Corporate Gurukul, in a conversation with YourStory, adding that business has managed to bounce back to pre-COVID-19 levels.

He adds the team does not believe in amassing as many students as possible and follows one motto — if you are the best, we will help you become better.

At present, Corporate Gurukul provides short-term upskilling courses and only targets students from top tier educational institutions — IITs, BITs, or NITs — through partnerships with elite universities in Singapore. The focus is on ensuring students are better prepared for a corporate career or simply upskilling to be better equipped for higher studies.

Rajesh says, "We want our students to get ready for the corporate world through an experiential form of learning, which is relevant for the society as whole." Read more.

Here are other highlights in today's Daily Capsule:

Editor's Pick: Techie Tuesday
Startup Spotlight: WCube
YourStory TV's Daily Dispatch
News and updates and more…

In this week's Techie Tuesday, we feature Sabari Girish Parampoor, an engineering leader who has worked at VMWare, Indegene, and Exeevo, launched and exited a carpooling startup, and is now building a strong tech culture in Coll Poll. Read more.

Startup Spotlight

WCube's growth journey from 1X to 10X over 1 year

"Before we started this business, I did not know that there were 90 types of eggs or even 800 types of brooms," quips Udit Karan Chandhok.

The business he is referring to is Delhi-headquartered WCube, a bottom of the pyramid focused B2B (business-to-business) procurement enablement platform for large-size enterprises he launched with his long-time friend Akash Narain Mittal.

The business introduced the duo to an all-new world of products that not many were aware of or talking about. Read more

YourStory TV: Daily Dispatch

Catch the top headlines from the startup and tech world on YourStory TV's Daily Dispatch, on weekdays at 5 pm with Priya Sheth.

News & Updates

Bengaluru-based UrbanPiper, a one-stop restaurant management platform, raised $24 million in a Series B round led by existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global Management and new investors Swiggy and Zomato. It is looking to expand to over 200,000 restaurant locations globally in the next two years.
Delhi-based electric mobility startup Prakriti E-mobility has secured a lead investment from Europe's growth-focused IEG Investment Banking Group as part of its $5 million pre-Series A funding round.
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder of InfoEdge, has posted a series of instructions that he has followed over the years to maintain good corporate governance within his company and the startups he has invested in.
Zepto Founder Aadit Palicha responded to Anand Mahindra on Twitter regarding a concern about how delivery partners will be treated during this new arms race of 10-minute quick commerce deliveries . Palicha reached out to Mahindra publicly after the business magnate had mentioned his worries about 10-minute delivery increasing driver safety risks.

In Case You Missed It*

*A roundup of interesting stories from global media organisations; YourStory has not verified this content and does not vouch for its accuracy

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey criticised the company's board in a series of tweets as the group is now tasked with evaluating a takeover bid from billionaire Elon Musk. The board is currently considering a $43 billion bid from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy the company and take it private.
The World Bank cut its forecast for global economic expansion this year on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is planning to mobilise a funding package bigger than the COVID-19 response for nations to deal with various resulting and ongoing crises.
US natural gas prices surged to the highest level in more than 13 years Monday as Russia's war on Ukraine causes a global energy crunch and as forecasts called for cooler spring temperatures. Futures jumped more than 6 percent to trade as high as $7.80 per million British thermal units , the highest since October 2008.

Brand Spotlight

Catch the best of Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India, discussing the innovations witnessed in the fintech domain over these years, only at FINTELLECT, a Salesforce Fintech Initiative in association with Younion, and powered by YourStory. For more, click on

"Businesses need to build a robust data universe and easy-to-implement data architecture to strengthen the data-decision ecosystem," says Varun Gaur, Associate Vice President - Product Management, Lumenore; at a panel-discussion hosted in association with YourStory.

How does Lowe's India ensure that their associates are routinely growing? Reena Sofiya, Senior Director - Merchandising, Marketing, and Supply Chain at Lowe's India, tells us how. Read on!

The third edition of 'Amazon Smbhav' scheduled for May 18, 19 this year will bring to the fore some exemplary startups, small businesses, and changemakers whose work enables India's growth to a $1 trillion digital economy. If you are contributing to the growth of India's digital economy, this is your chance to be recognised and scale impact. Last date to apply for Amazon Smbhav Awards 2022 is April 22.

Before you go, stay inspired with...

— Kulmeet Bawa, President, and Managing Director, SAP Indian subcontinent

True progress of India lies in the development of her villages.

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