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Edureka is an interactive, online learning platform. It offers live, instructor-led courses that cater mainly to working professionals who want to enhance their skills. Founded in mid-2011 and headquartered in Bangalore, India, the company is privately owned and operated by Brain4ce Education Ltd. Currently, it offers around 50 different courses in categories like Big Data & Hadoop, Business Analytics, Cloud Computing, NoSQL Databases, Java & Mobile Technologies, System Engineering, Project Management and Programming, Digital Marketing. Students can visit the website or Edureka Mobile app to browse available courses and sign-up for relevant courses. The courses are delivered online and students are able to ask questions during or after the sessions. Students are asked to work on real-time projects and on completion of the project, an Edureka certification is provided. As of June 2015, around 250,000 students from 150 different countries have attended Edureka’s live courses

History
Lovleen Bhatia, an IIT-BHU alumni exited his earlier venture to start Edureka in mid-2011. Lovleen partnered with Kapil Tyagi, an IIT Bombay alumni, to co-found this venture.

Lovleen and Kapil started off the company from a small office in Noida, with just 4 employees and an investment of Rs.1.5 crore.

The company launched its first pilot project to the final year students at ABES Engineering College in Ghaziabad, in mid-2011. A two-month training program was organized in partnership with a few Bangalore-based software companies and focused on mobile app development courses. Working professionals from the industry were roped in as its first instructors. Most of the training was conducted online through discussion forums, web-chats and video conferencing, and team projects were mentored by industry experts, including Kalyan Banerjee, co-founder and senior vice-president of Mindtree. The results of the project were published at the International Conference on Education Research and Innovation held at Madrid in November 2011.

Over the next eight months, Edureka added 30 new instructors from the industry and trained around 1200 students.

Within a year Edureka had shifted its complete education online, and in June 2012, Edureka had 15000 students from across the globe registered for their online Android development course. Edureka got noticed when a 10-year-old Priyansh Soni created a mobile app in June 2013 using Edureka platform.

Edureka shifted its base from Noida to Bengaluru in 2012 where they setup a small office in Indiranagar. Further in 2013, they expanded their office and relocated to Sigma Tech Park in Whitefield, Bengaluru.

As of June 2015, Edureka has 50 live courses and around 200 industry-expert trainers.

Awards

 * In November 2014, Edureka was ranked number 1 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 India 2014
 * In June 2015, Business Today named Edureka as one of the Coolest Startups of 2015