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Gurugram, Haryana

4.3/ 5

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CollegeDekho, operating under Girnarsoft Education Services Pvt. Ltd. (GESPL), is a prominent Indian educational technology company that functions as a comprehensive higher education ecosystem. Founded in July 2015 by Ruchir Arora, Saurabh Jain, and Rohit Saha, the Gurugram-based platform was established to address the critical information gap and anxiety students face while navigating the fragmented higher education landscape in India. By cataloging detailed data on over 35,000 colleges and universities, the platform connects prospective students with institutions across various degrees, geographies, and streams. The core of CollegeDekho’s service portfolio revolves around simplifying college discovery, enrollment, and career planning. It features a proprietary Common Application Form (CAF) that allows students to apply to multiple institutions simultaneously with a single click. To guide students through their options, the company offers free professional counseling, utilizing automated multilingual AI chatbots alongside human experts to assist with choices regarding courses, admissions, entrance test updates, and fee structures. Additionally, CollegeDekho provides full-stack support services including assistance with education loans, student insurance, and hostel accommodations. Through its Study Abroad vertical, it helps students target international universities across regions like the US, UK, and Canada, while its "CollegeDekho Assured" and "CollegeDekho Learn" initiatives offer skill-building certificate courses and placement guarantees to close the graduate employment gap. From an institutional standpoint, CollegeDekho operates primarily on a B2B2C business model, assisting over 1,500 partner colleges and universities with student recruitment and digital enrollment management. The company relies on a multi-faceted revenue model where nearly 60% of its income is derived from lead generation and successful enrollment commissions paid by partner universities. It supplements this through university advertising packages, premium subscription-based counseling packages for students, and event hosting fees for virtual and physical educational fairs. Financially, CollegeDekho has expanded rapidly from its roots as an educational advertising startup. Initially seeded with $1 million from Cardekho’s parent company, GirnarSoft, it has raised over $53 million to $76.7 million in cumulative funding through institutional investors such as Winter Capital, ETS Strategic Capital, Calega Family Office, Disrupt ADQ, and Qatar Insurance Company. The company has also achieved growth through strategic market consolidation, notably executing over INR 50 crore worth of acquisitions in early 2022 by purchasing peer discovery platforms GetMyUni and IELTSMaterial, alongside the coding startup PrepBytes. By mid-2025, CollegeDekho had facilitated over 200,000 lifetime enrollments, recorded over 200 million annual platform sessions, and grown its workforce to over 1,500 employees across offices in major Indian metros.