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Coursera’s IPO windfall: the takeaways for Indian ed-tech companies that plan to get listed

By Amelia Podder

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Going by Coursera’s IPO, there’s value to be unlocked in ed-tech. A study says there will be 100 publicly listed ed-tech companies globally with a market cap of over USD1 billion by 2025. Yet, there are just a handful of them now. Can 2021 change that? How many could be from India and what can they learn from Coursera’s listing?

Coursera’s listing in April 2021 is a significant value-creation story for ed-tech, especially as it comes a year after the pandemic resulted in the biggest global shift towards online learning. Doubling its mid-2020 private-market valuation of USD2.6 billion, the listed entity raised USD519 million with a market capitalisation of USD5.8 billion. The underlying message: There’s value to be unlocked in ed-tech. Education market-research company

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Amelia Podder