18-year old’s edtech startup “Skill Before Degree” gets Ashneer Grover’s nod

In a nation-wide search for young entrepreneurs and future business leaders, Ashneer Grover, Former MD, BharatPe awarded Divyanshi Gupta, a student of Adarsh Jain Dharmik Shiksha Sadan, Delhi, with the first prize for her edtech startup ‘Skill Before Degree’. Divyanshi has been operating her educational technology start-up for the past year, allowing teachers to instruct students in grades 4 to 10 in Vedic maths and logical reasoning. Her SAAS-based model has served more than 350 teachers and 50 students, and it has so far brought in more than Rs. 5 Lac with profits of Rs. 4.5 Lacs.

The pan-India ‘CEO Challenge’ saw participation from over 6,500 students from more than 500 schools across 30+ Indian cities. The cutthroat competition was spread over 6 weeks, where high school students submitted their applications to be part of The CEO Challenge.

The CEO Challenge has been designed by Masters’ Union, a new-age practitioner-led B-school, revolutionizing management education in India. The CEO Challenge has been built on the belief that by allowing young students to experience the role of a CEO, students can be inspired to pursue careers in business and grow into the next generation of leaders. ‘The CEO Challenge’, was broken down into 3 rounds. In the first round, students participated in a 7-day-7-minute marathon that had an online MCQ-based tech and business simulation. This was followed by a 4-hour-long Virtual Case Study Competition Internship, which culminated in a face-to-face round with Ashneer Grover. The top 18 applicants from across India presented their final business ideas to the Former Shark Tank India Judge Ashneer Grover, at the Masters’ Union Gurugram Campus.