Wincourse Acquires 85% Stake In Start-up Firm Mappr

<div><em><strong>Wincourse will be looking at acquiring more companies in the edu-tech space this year, reports Sonal Khetarpal&nbsp;</strong></em></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Delhi-based education technology firm Wincourse has acquired an 85 per cent stake in Mappr, a networking platform for schools, for an undisclosed amount.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Wincourse, an online location-based tutor aggregator platform, was founded by Dheeraj Jain, Ashwani Duggal and Kay Bhagavatheeswaran to organise the tutoring market in India. &nbsp;The portal allows former and present students to grade and provide feedback to their tuition teachers on the basis of their experience.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The company currently has around 8,00,000 tutors on their platform from Delhi NCR and Bangalore, informs Jain.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>“We wanted to expand our educational services to schools and Mappr is a great networking platform that acts like a combination of Facebook and LinkedIn for schools,” says Jain.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Mappr was founded in March 2015 by two IIT alumni, ­Soham Chokshi and his partner who requested anonymity for professional reasons. The online platform connects school administration, teachers, students and parents within and across schools. It allows teachers to give feedback on students’ progress, helps schools go digital by facilitating online uploading of assignments, and connecting parents through social groups. The portal has onboarded few schools and private tutors in Delhi NCR and Mumbai as its clients and are targeting to reach over two lakh users by this year end.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>One of the key differentiator of Mappr is that it gives visibility to students not only for their academic performance but also for their behaviour and extra-curricular achievements to not only to school administration but also to parents in real time, informs Chokshi. “We got Wincourse on board as we were running the company part time and their manpower and resources will help to accelerate the scaling process for Mappr,” he adds. Choksi is the co-founder of another logistics start-up Shipsy.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Wincourse will be looking at acquiring more companies in the edu-tech space this year.</div>