How this former Vedantu cofounder is taking on Instagram and Snapchat to build social …

Uable had started off as an online life skill development platform for students aged 6-12 in 2020. In its current form, Uable is a mix of LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, but only for teens. Zee5 and Big FM’s former CEO Tarun Katial is also working on a similar offering that focuses on women. After spending nearly seven years building one of India’s biggest edtech companies, Vedantu, Saurabh Saxena is now on a journey to take on social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat by building an offering exclusively for teens. His latest venture Uable had started off as an online life skill development platform for kids aged 6-12 in 2020. The company had also raised close to $5 million from marquee investors like 3one4 Capital, Inflection Point, Pine Labs’ Amrish Rau and others. Saxena claims that the other model was working just fine, both parents and students enjoyed their method of skill development in a creative manner. Saxena’s seven-year-old daughter was also a user of the platform. However, Uable decided to pivot its business model to focus on a much larger audience. This switch in model was one of the reasons why Chiratae Ventures had decided to back the…
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