EdTechReview

About EdTechReview

EdTechReview is an education-technology news portal and community platform based in New Delhi, covering Indian and global edtech from edtechreview.in. Founded in 2012 by Utkarsh Lokesh, Shantanu Rana, Divya Prakash and Saransh Garg, it describes itself as a community for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate — discovering, learning and sharing the best ways technology can improve teaching and learning. The platform combines journalism with community-building: news and resources for educators, a network spanning over 1,000 institutions and 100 edtech companies, flagship conferences, and services helping foreign edtech companies enter the Indian market. In 2016 it raised pre-Series A funding from EVC Ventures, and it has grown into a leading media platform for education stakeholders across more than 200 countries.

Founding

EdTechReview was founded in 2012 by four co-founders: Utkarsh Lokesh (CEO), Shantanu Rana (CTO), Divya Prakash and Saransh Garg. The founding vision was to bridge two worlds: the hundreds of edtech startups and companies — Indian and foreign — seeking to understand the Indian education system, and the thousands of educators looking to elevate their practice through technology. The founders saw EdTechReview as the organisation to bridge that gap, creating a community where the two sides could discover each other. The 2012 founding placed the venture at the beginning of India's edtech boom, years before the sector's pandemic-era explosion.

The founders

Utkarsh Lokesh, co-founder and CEO, has driven EdTechReview's evolution from a blog to a global community and media platform — directing news coverage, building the editorial staff and leading strategy, with a focus on 21st-century education and community building. Shantanu Rana, co-founder and CTO, built the platform's technology. Divya Prakash, co-founder, led strategy, marketing, partnerships and client relations, growing the events business and managing finances and HR. Saransh Garg, co-founder, kept the platform humming online and offline through research, social media and global community networking. The complementary skill sets — editorial, technical, commercial and community — gave the venture a balanced foundation.

News and media platform

At its core, EdTechReview is a media platform publishing news, information and resources on educational technology for stakeholders across K-12, higher education and corporate learning. Its coverage spans edtech product news, funding announcements, policy developments, pedagogical trends and institutional technology adoption. With over 200,000 monthly visitors from more than 200 countries — concentrated in North America, Asia and Europe — it serves a genuinely global audience. Partnerships, such as its collaboration with C.M. Rubin's "Global Search for Education" series featuring 300-plus global education thought leaders, extend its editorial reach.

Community and network

The community dimension distinguishes EdTechReview from pure news sites: it serves over 60,000 active subscribers globally and works with more than 1,000 K-12 and higher-education institutions and over 100 edtech startups and companies worldwide. The platform facilitates connection and collaboration among educators, entrepreneurs and investors — online through its content and network, and offline through events. This community is both the audience and the product: the network effects of bringing the sector's stakeholders together create value that journalism alone cannot.

Conferences and events

Flagship events — the EdTechReview K12 and Higher Education Conferences in India — convene hundreds of institutions and dozens of edtech companies to explore current and emerging trends in education technology. The events business, grown under Divya Prakash's leadership, brings the community together physically: educators, entrepreneurs and investors meeting to share practice, discover products and build relationships. In a relationship-driven market like Indian education, these convenings perform a commercial as well as editorial function, and they have become a significant part of the company's identity.

Funding

In June 2016, EdTechReview raised an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding from EVC Ventures, led by managing partner Anjli Jain. The funding was earmarked for expanding activities across Indian cities, strengthening the community through niche products, events and conferences, building a global edtech startup listing platform, developing a job portal for the edtech hiring market, and helping foreign edtech players enter the Indian market. The raise validated the company's community-plus-media model at a time when Indian edtech investment was just beginning to accelerate.

Market-entry services

A distinctive part of the business is helping foreign edtech companies enter the Indian market: market research, India-entry strategy, distribution partner search, consulting and M&A advisory — services few Indian education platforms are positioned to offer. The company's deep understanding of the Indian edtech segment — built through years of working with domestic institutions and startups — is packaged as a service for international players eyeing India. This B2B services arm diversifies revenue beyond media and events, and leverages the same network and knowledge that power the editorial operation.

Global reach

Though headquartered in New Delhi — with offices in Vikaspuri — EdTechReview's audience and network are global: 200-plus countries, with significant readership in North America, Asia and Europe. The company has worked with edtech players and investors in the USA, Australia and Singapore, and participated in international industry events including the New York Venture Summit — engagements that reflect its standing well beyond India's borders. This global orientation reflects the nature of edtech itself — a sector where ideas, products and capital cross borders constantly — and positions the platform as a bridge between Indian education and the world.

The company's own materials put numbers to that community: a niche subscriber base of 120,000 to 150,000-plus and an annual readership of over 3 million across 200 to 220 countries and territories, with an audience spanning students, parents, teachers, institution leaders, edtech founders, investors, policymakers and researchers. By its own account, EdTechReview has helped more than 300 education companies worldwide with education advertising, PR and marketing, and at the time of its 2016 funding round it claimed to be engaging with over 1,000 K-12 and higher-education institutions and more than 100 edtech startups and companies worldwide. The organisation operates with a team of 11 to 50 people.

Business model

The company's revenue streams span media advertising, events, community services, consulting and market-entry advisory — a diversified model unusual among education news outlets. The diversification reflects the founders' understanding that media alone rarely sustains a niche B2B platform: the community, events and services monetise the same network that the journalism builds. With 11 to 50 employees, the operation remains lean relative to its global footprint.

Place in education media

EdTechReview occupies a distinctive position as India's leading edtech-focused media and community platform — part news outlet, part network, part events business, part consultancy. Founded in 2012, it anticipated the edtech boom by nearly a decade, building the community infrastructure the sector would later need. For educators seeking to understand technology, for startups seeking to understand Indian education, and for investors tracking the sector, it remains an essential node in the ecosystem. Its official website is edtechreview.in.

Outlook

As of October 2026, EdTechReview continues to operate from New Delhi at edtechreview.in, serving its global community of educators, institutions and edtech companies. The Indian edtech sector has matured considerably since the platform's 2012 founding — through boom, correction and consolidation — and the need for trustworthy information and genuine community has only grown through those cycles. The company's diversified model, spanning media, events, consulting and market-entry services, gives it resilience that pure news outlets lack. As education technology enters its next phase — shaped by artificial intelligence, hybrid learning and global competition — the platform's role as the sector's connective tissue looks more valuable than ever. For anyone working at the intersection of education and technology in India, EdTechReview remains an essential address. Its early start — founded in 2012, years before edtech became a mainstream investment category — gave it a head start in community-building that later entrants have struggled to replicate — a durable advantage in a relationship-driven sector like education.