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through practical curriculums which duration and long-term programmes
will develop their problem-solving, to make them work-ready.
critical thinking and application The company's 250-strong team
skills,” says Jain. includes several highly qualified
According to him, this three- mentors who develop students’
year-old edtech company has been professional competencies and
carefully designed to be “an exem- workplace skills, by way of assess-
plary service provider, making a ment, training, internships, career
tangible difference to students’ lives” guidance and mentorship. Thus far,
rather than as an enterprise with the company has reached 30 million
an eye on fund-raising and billion students in India, preparing them
dollar valuation. “The Indian ed-tech for industry workplaces through
sector is growing rapidly and the partnerships with colleges, corpo-
market is large enough for all edtech rates, media, and the United Nations
companies to find and carve their Development Program.
own niches. I believe our heavily Newspeg. In association with cho-
funded competitors will push us to sen corporate partners, Talerang
continuously improve and upgrade launched its Career Track Simulation
Jain: future technologies focus our programmes and curriculums,” programme last month (January).
says Jain. It will provide students in the 12-25
become “fearlessly exploratory, big Future plans. With the BeSingular years age group practical experience
dreamers, progressive, dynamic, and platform humming smoothly with of working in corporate enterprises.
futuristic individuals”. subscriber-learners, Best Edven- After candidates successfully com-
Newspeg. Best Edventure has set a tures is all set to enter the European plete a month-long programme, they
target to train and certify 500,000 market, beginning with Germany, will become better aware of which
students over the next two-four years with which group companies have career is right for them, says Raina.
in robotics, AI, VR, and AR in pursu- developed durable linkages. But They will also be certified by the
ance of the company’s larger plan committed to the cause of quality partner company and Talerang.
to emerge as a force to reckon with education for all segments of society, History. A highly qualified applied
in the country’s booming ed-tech Jain is exploring ways and means mathematics, international studies
sector. to extend BeSingular’s reach to and economics graduate of America’s
History. An alumnus of the top- government schools where learning high-ranked Brown University,
ranked Harvard Business School outcomes tend to be abysmal. “We Raina acquired valuable corporate
and Singularity University, USA, are seriously examining how we can experience with Goldman Sachs and
Jain is also joint managing direc- attain economies of scale and reach McKinsey & Co, New York before
tor of the Gurugram-based Best students in government schools returning to India in 2009 for a two-
Group of companies (estb.1972). across India,” says Jain. Raina: ambitious future plans
Best Group manufactures control Wind in your sails!
cables, gear shifters, transmission Sumali Moitra (Gurugram)
and driveline shifting systems, and
lighting and future factory solutions Work-readiness
(headcount:1,000-plus). Committed
to the cause of developing India’s
“abundant and high-potential human pioneer
capital,” Jain is also a co-founder
of the blue-chip Ashoka University, dupreneur SHVETA RAINA is
Sonipat. the Mumbai-based founder-
Direct talk. “Our education system ECEO of Advantage Leadership
needs to change from its emphasis Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which owns Tal-
on rote learning and exams obses- erang, a proprietary career training
sion to becoming more meaningful brand and platform that is the com-
and relevant for students. On BeSin- bination of two words — Talent, and
gular, our objective is to provide Boomerang. Talerang offers school
children a user-friendly platform students, college graduates and
to learn future digital technologies professionals well-designed short

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