Creative Galileo, an educational technology start-up, founded by women entrepreneur, has hyped $2.5 million in funding round. The funding round was organized by Kalaari Capital, marking it the first start-up to be funded by CXXO programme for the growth of women entrepreneurs.
Creative Galileo was founded by Prerna A Jhunjhunwala in July 2020. Within 12 months, the e-learning app for 3-10 age bar has already marked four million downloads and states to have over five lakhs of active monthly users. The founder affirms, “It is the fastest growing early learning app in India”. The app has expanded in global markets, with rate of 10 per cent across the world such as UAE, Nepal, US and Bangladesh.
Jhunjhunwala says, “Our vision is to provide high-quality content for learning while keeping the process fun”.
The founder introduced an early learner app, Little Singham. Explaining about this, she said the app is character and animation-based early learning programme that create customized and unified learning experience for young and creative mind through the combination of education and entertainment.
She further said that the start-up will utilize fund for launching more Indian and international languages and characters. The start-up also contracted with Amar Chitra Katha to create videos and games while using animation characters from Katha. Creative Galileo has also tied-up with Shermaroo, Big Animations, Toonz and Periwinkle.
Kalaari stated that, earlier this year, Prerna Jhunjhunwala become the first investee from its flagship CXXO Programme. Vani Kola, Kalaari’s managing director says, “when we met Prerna and Nikhil, we truly saw them as shapers of a digital tomorrow, building the edtech solutions for global learners of the future”.
“We believe that technology in learning can bring unmatched access and affordability and improve literacy for a much larger target segment”, she added. She further said by using technology as a means of transformation, the passionate founder of Creative Galileo designed innovative educational platform for young and creative learners.
Kalaari Capital’s CXXO is an enterprise that encourage women entrepreneur to encounter difficulties in Indian Stat-up Ecosystem. It aims on funding capital and brings women community together to get succeed across the world and to mould into future leaders with confidence.
