AttainU Success Story

Attainu Success story The education sector is the most significant sector for any country, especially for a developing country like India. In India, however, there has been a growing gap between the industry needs and the skills of the students. A study by employability assessment company ‘Aspiring Minds’, carried out in 2017, shockingly revealed that 95% engineers in India are not fit for software development jobs.

Addressing such gaps, AttainU has molded its courses to make students skilled enough to do justice to their jobs. AttainU provides a high-quality, scalable, professional skill training platform enabling India’s young population to step up and meet the global talent shortage. Currently, AttainU is offering online, live software engineering courses.

Read About AttainU Company Profile, Funding, Competitors, Revenue, Business Model, Growth, Logo, Fees and Challenges.

AttainU – Company Highlights

• Startup Name-AttainU
• Headquarter-Bangalore
• Sector-Ed-Tech
• Co-founders-Divyam Goel, Vaibhav Bajpai
• Founded-2018
• Parent Organization-Leetu Education Pvt. Ltd.
• Website-attainu.com

About AttainU and How it Works

AttainU uses a centralized online college simulation approach facilitating immersive interactions between aspirational learners and domain experts while delivering consistent learning outcomes at scale.

AttainU works with a vision to provide a high-quality college alternative to deserving students, who are either not employed satisfactorily with their existing qualifications or are looking to upskill for better employment opportunities in the field of technology.

In the process, they aim to systematically solve education-related problems in an individual-aligned (interest and ability), market-aligned (outcome-focused), and scalable (accessible, affordable) way while ensuring high-quality outcomes at all steps.

AttainU has built a vertically integrated solution covering-

Enrollment – Here, AttainU helps the students to figure out their fit for the course, which is based on their aptitude, inclination, and, most importantly, the ability to put in the required effort.

Skill Building – This is the main central piece which allows the startup to deliver high-quality learning outcomes at scale. The crux here is maintaining high student engagement during the course. This is achieved through facilitating highly immersive interactions with instructors, mentors, and peers focused around a centrally defined course path built-in line with industry partners and delivered by industry expert faculty. Delivery and measurement of granular learning outcomes are built in to make sure each student is on the expected learning trajectory.

Placements – The core of the higher education system. Through placement mechanism, AttainU prepares the students for placements, does the matchmaking, and facilitates the interactions between its industry partners and students.

AttainU bridges the gap between unemployable college graduates and global talent shortage. This is one of the persistent problems India currently faces, and it’s essential to address this issue to exploit the demographic dividend; to evolve into a high-quality human resources capital of the world.

AttainU – Target Market

The education sector in India is estimated to stand at $91.7 billion in FY18 and is expected to reach $101.1 billion in FY20. There are around 9 Million people coming out of colleges/year (CAGR 11%+), but 75% of them don’t make it to the White Collar Workforce.

College enrollments will increase 3x over the next seven years. 80% of students after graduation lack the basic subject matter expertise and life skills. Given the global talent shortage and working-age human resource surplus in India, India has the potential to become the HR Capital of the World.

AttainU – Founders and Team

Divyam Goel and Vaibhav Bajpai are the founders of AttainU

Divyam Goel is the CEO & Co-founder of AttainU. He looks after building a strong team aligned towards the company’s goals for the next phase of growth. He is also responsible for meeting the right set of investors who are looking at investing in the Ed-tech industry.

AttainU Team

Currently, AttainU has a dedicated team of 15 members with high efficiency, where every individual holds multiple responsibilities. Their hiring strategy is to scientifically and unambiguously assess for culture, role, and stage fit.

How was AttainU Started

Working in the Bay Area with startups and top tech companies like Uber and Google is always the highest aspiration for any software engineering graduate in India. After graduating from IIT Bombay Computer Science Engineering in 2012, Divyam Goel pursued the same path.

Over the years, the internal quest for the purpose of life led him to believe that giving back to society is important. Six years, one startup and two big company experiences later, the impact of his work started taking precedence over financial returns. Having identified Education, Healthcare, and Public Infrastructure as the top three problems in India, Divyam moved back to India in late 2017 to create an impact in these sectors.

AttainU team in their extensive research has engaged with a wide number of stakeholders, and got to understand their views-

Industry Leaders, including CTOs –

a) Are of the view that there is a definite, strong need for industry-aligned skilling.

b) Believe that finding the right talent for the right role, especially at the fresher level, has become extremely time and money intensive.

c) Thinks that college graduates lack the basic fundamental subject knowledge as well as the professionally required life skills.

College Educators –

a) Are not interested in the undergraduate teaching outcomes and don’t have any incentive to be.

b) Having no industry experience, they don’t understand the industry requirements.

c) They need to follow AICTE norms, restricting them to follow a particular curriculum.

Views of Existing and Previous Education Companies –

a) Recorded, self-paced material based learning does not have the desired impact as a simulated course.

b) Majority of the companies were measuring metrics which are not at all related to learning outcomes, including the number of views, number of packages sold, etc.

Students –

a) During College, being the first generation from their families, students feel that the college degree will get them a job and hence don’t have the motivation to learn from any other source.

b) After College, however, the students’ views are much different.

AttainU team found that-

After college, the students get disillusioned by the system, and gets motivated to learn the right skills to get into the right careers to the highest.

Also, the team found that many students regret taking the wrong branch at the wrong College, from a career perspective, due to either lack of exposure or lack of finances makes it unfeasible for them to pay for a coaching institute which would increase their chances of getting into a Tier 1 college by 5x.

Evaluating many scalable processes to arrive at a solution that ensures timely high-quality, consistent learning outcomes

Assessing various models to identifying the most efficient processes around company-student interactions leading to a win-win situation for all

AttainU – Competitors

In the past few years, several startups have gravitated towards this gap and there’s been plenty of innovation too. HRtech startups such as HackerRank, HackerEarth, Codlity as well as edtech startups such as Udemy, Unacademy, upGrad are some of the notable names moving to upskill India’s engineers and entry-level workers. These are some of the competitors for AttainU.

AttainU – Funding and Investors

AttainU has raised a total of $150K in funding over 2 rounds. Leetu Education Pvt. Ltd, which operates the software engineering focused education technology startup AttainU, has raised angel funding in September 2019 from a clutch of high-profile investors.

The investors included former Google India head Shailesh Rao and former Intuit India head Nikhil Rungta. Anil Gelra, the founder of financial technology firm SnapMint; and Manish Kumar, the founder of invoice discounting startup KredX as well as angel investing platform LetsVenture also took part in the funding round.

AttainU – Growth

AttainU approached profitability in October 2019. Currently, AttainU has 300+ students enrolled in its courses. In September 2019, AttainU has received 20,000+ student applications.

“Some of our students from the first batch, which is graduating at the end of October, have already received pre-placement offers” – Divyam says.

Over the next one year, AttainU aims to cater to 8000+ students

AttainU – FAQs

Who are the founders of AttainU?

Divyam Goel and Vaibhav Bajpai are the founders of AttainU

How much Funding is raised by AttainU?

AttainU has raised a total of $150K in funding over 2 rounds. Its recent round being on September 2019, raised angel funding from a clutch of high-profile investors.

What is AttainU?

AttainU helps you to completely rewrite your career with its Live and Online full stack development course.  A Full stack web developer is a master in many coding languages for the front end design and development of a website along with a backend coding language besides knowing how to manage and maintain a server.

How much is AttainU fees?

Fee Payment Options:

Option 1 – Rs. 2,25,000 (Pay after Placement)

Option 2 – Rs. 1,00,000 (Upfront Fee Payment)