Krishna Kumar
Founder and CEO @ Simplilearn
Bengaluru, India
Krishna Kumar is a seed investor at Simplilearn in Bengaluru focused on Education and Apps. Krishna Kumar founded Simplilearn.com in 2010 and serves as the CEO. Before this, Krishna worked at IAMAI- Edtech as the Chairman and attended the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Krishna Kumar invests in
Stages Krishna Kumar invests in
Countries Krishna Kumar invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$1.7M
- Pre-Seed
- $592k–$673k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 2 (33%)
- Apps 1 (17%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- EdTech 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Playto Labs
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Playto Labs helps your child develop the skills, curiosity and confidence needed to win the future. | $531.2K / Seed / Oct 13, 2021 | |
HappyCredit
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India’s first platform that automatically rewards shopping with any bank credit card, debit card & UPI. It’s so simple, we call it Aishback. | $592K / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2021 | |
Goodmeetings
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Goodmeetings operates as an online video and AI enabled platform. | $1.7M / Seed / Aug 06, 2021 | |
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HappyCredit
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India’s first platform that automatically rewards shopping with any bank credit card, debit card & UPI. It’s so simple, we call it Aishback. | $673.5K / Pre-Seed / Aug 06, 2021 | |
Karnival
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Smart receipt is a proprietary technology of Karnival. Which enables post purchase customer engagements by enabling various interactive features in-receipt. Invaluable customer profile data is collected following various guidelines like GDPR to interact at later stage and customer journey is designed intelligently | $250K / Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | |
PurpleTutor
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PurpleTutor is a company, that teaches coding/computational sciences to kids in the age group of 6 - 16 via LIVE online classes. | $300K / Seed / Jan 12, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Simplilearn
Simplilearn helps professionals across the globe realize their dream careers. As a destination for certification training courses, the company caters to professionals across industries and functions. Through a combination of proven training content, blended delivery model and next-gen customer experience, Simplilearn offers courses that helpprofessionals get the edge they want in their careers. With study centers across the globe, Simplilearn offers 200+ certification courses in Project Management, IT Service Management, Microsoft Certification, Quality Management, Financial Management and more. Rated by Deloitte as the 4th fastest growing technology firm in India and 11th in Asia, and by the IAMAI as the best educational website, the company has trained over 400,000+ professionals across 150+ countries. Simplilearn is the Global Registered Education Provider (REP) of PMI, USA, Accredited Training Organization (ATO) by APMG International, UK, Registered Education Provider (REP) of Scrum Alliance Inc., and Accredited Examination Center (AEC) by EXIN, TUV-SUD, EC Council and PEOPLECERT. In September 2013, Simplilearn raised $10-million in Series B funding from Helion Venture Partners and Kalaari Capital to diversify and expand its course catalog. Simplilearn’s mission is to consistently provide best-in-class training to working professionals through proven content, robust technology and a focus to achieve 100% customer delight. For more information, visit www.simplilearn.com
Simplilearn Contacts
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Krishna Kumar
Founder and CEO
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Ananand Narayanan
Chief Product Officer
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Anshul Agarwal
Senior Director Performance Marketing
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Archana Krishna
Co-founder and Chief Human Resources Officer
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Dinesh Kumar
Vice President - Business
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FAQ
What does Krishna Kumar invest in?
Krishna Kumar invests primarily in Education, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Krishna Kumar's check size?
Krishna Kumar typically joins rounds of $250k–$1.7M at Seed and $592k–$673k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Krishna Kumar participates in.
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When did Krishna Kumar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Krishna Kumar closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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