# National Skill Development Corporation

> National Skill Development Corporation is a VC fund backing EdTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nsdcindia
- Website: http://www.nsdcindia.org

National Skill Development Corporation is a VC fund in New Delhi focused on EdTech and Education. The NSDC aims to promote skill development in India by catalyzing the creation of scalable, for-profit vocational institutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $185k–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 4 | 50% |
| Education | 3 | 38% |
| Corporate Training | 2 | 25% |
| Training | 1 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Grant | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dilip Chenoy | MD & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dilip-chenoy |
| Subramaniam Ramadorai | Chairman of the Board of Directors | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-ramadorai |
| Arunkumar Pillai | Chief Strategy Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arunkumar-pillai-a2a5 |
| Manish Kumar | MD & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-kumar-4bb0 |
| Prakash Sharma | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prakash-sharma-2c53 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Startup Stairs | Startup Stairs is a seed-stage accelerator dedicated to developing the skills ecosystem in India. |  |  | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| Edubuk | Edubuk’s customized skilling platform using AI & Blockchain is patent published in India and is also globally award winning by MIT University, Harvard University in the US, AWS Edstart, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Calcutta, State Government of Telangana (India), Polygon Blockchain, Cardano Blockchain, Dubai Expo 2020 (India Pavilion: invitedby Govt. of India to demo our innovative product), TiE Delhi, TiE Mumbai, Data Innovation Bazaar, Telangana AI-Mission, Bombay Stock Exchange’s Impact Startups, Times Next, European Digital University.Edubuk offers 4 services to its 50 million + users globally: a.) Psychometric screening (MIIT Screening to map students top intelligence and interest type to most relevant career paths in Emerging Technologies. b.) Emerging Technologies Skilling and Teaching including in AI and Blockchain via our trainers to the world including to private and government organizations c.) Recording CV, Resume and any certificate on the Blockchain in a safe, transparent manner d.) Providing Job assistance to our users in sync with their Edubuk profile recorded on the Blockchain | $10K | Grant | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Virohan | Virohan is an EdTech company that offers healthcare vocational training to students to build a career in the healthcare industry. Virohan uses technology and talent to fix this socio-economic problem so that industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium.Virohan is re-engineering vocational training by aggregating the highlyfragmented vocational training industry and standardizing their operations from mobilization, training to placements. Virohan's tech stack's plug-and-play installation at training centers assures demand-driven training is provided to students in an affordable, accessible, and standardized manner to ensure youth achieve progressive livelihoods, the industry receives a trained workforce, and training centers have higher revenues and profitability.Virohan’s target audience is marginalized, low-income youth in the age group of 16-24, with about 50% of them being females. Virohan provides courses in Healthcare covering Allied Health, Corporate Training, and Refresher training for hospital employees in an omnichannel training model.The courses offered emphasize on development of core technical skills, language abilities, and life skills in the student through gamified blended learning delivered by its facilitators in classrooms. All programs include long internships at hospitals for hands-on practice of the skills acquired. It is a fee-based model and in order to encourage young people to join, financial linkages are provided with easy installment-based payback options after a job is secured by the young person.Virohan's tech stack predicts job demand, mobilizes youth as per that demand, trains them, and connects them with jobs. In essence, this increases viable penetration, lowering operational costs and improving efficiency across operations (mobilization, financing, training, certification, placement) through standardization. | $2.8M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Virohan | Virohan is an EdTech company that offers healthcare vocational training to students to build a career in the healthcare industry. Virohan uses technology and talent to fix this socio-economic problem so that industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium.Virohan is re-engineering vocational training by aggregating the highlyfragmented vocational training industry and standardizing their operations from mobilization, training to placements. Virohan's tech stack's plug-and-play installation at training centers assures demand-driven training is provided to students in an affordable, accessible, and standardized manner to ensure youth achieve progressive livelihoods, the industry receives a trained workforce, and training centers have higher revenues and profitability.Virohan’s target audience is marginalized, low-income youth in the age group of 16-24, with about 50% of them being females. Virohan provides courses in Healthcare covering Allied Health, Corporate Training, and Refresher training for hospital employees in an omnichannel training model.The courses offered emphasize on development of core technical skills, language abilities, and life skills in the student through gamified blended learning delivered by its facilitators in classrooms. All programs include long internships at hospitals for hands-on practice of the skills acquired. It is a fee-based model and in order to encourage young people to join, financial linkages are provided with easy installment-based payback options after a job is secured by the young person.Virohan's tech stack predicts job demand, mobilizes youth as per that demand, trains them, and connects them with jobs. In essence, this increases viable penetration, lowering operational costs and improving efficiency across operations (mobilization, financing, training, certification, placement) through standardization. | $450K | Debt Financing | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| SMEClabs | SMEClabs Welcome to the most sophisticated lab facility in the world sharing the best learning experience in over 128 sub-disciplines of Engineering & Technology SMEClabs. Considering the 4 major disciplines of Engineering – Electrical, Mechanical, Civil & Chemical, SMEClabs has very carefully divided them into detailed sub-branchesfocusing more on career opportunities in the present and future. In this century, Engineering is at its topmost efficiency when paired well with Technology and this is yet another outcome of our careful study and experience. Being in the field of Skill Enhancement for over 20+ years following all major quality standards, partnering with the pioneers in their respective dimensions SMEClabs is unique in this world of ours. Our major goal, being able to provide unbiased services for aspirants from all verticals, it was challenging to deliver our services to all with perfection. As a part of this mission, SMEClabs expanded its platforms of learning in 4 different modes such as Online, Offline, Hybrid and Virtual Learning. The crucial part was to make sure that the training gets delivered with the same value and understanding in all these modes. We welcome you to join our family of experts and make your career goals come alive | $274.6K | Series B | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Jeevanksh.com | Jeev Anksh Eco Products is a social enterprise and is in the business of marketing healthy, organic and eco-friendly products since 2012.The company is a DIPP, Govt. of India, recognised startup, under Startup India initiative, with recognition no. DIPP2109. The company has completed incubation with the Land Accelerator - South Asia 2020 by WorldResources Institute; NeatEhub, Assam Agriculture University, Jorhat, Assam; and from ZTM & BPD unit of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Pusa Campus, New Delhi, with technical support from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Umiam, Meghalaya.Jeevanksh.com, the company website, was launched on 12/12/12, as an online marketplace for organic and eco-products. We deal in all kind of finished products which are certified organic. We are an Associate Member of IFOAM Organic International and IFOAM Asia. We have tie up with organic growers of Northeast India, and have access to a total farmland of over 1000 ha. under organic cultivation, in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain range of NE region, near the Indo-Bhutan borders. Our farmer friends are over 10000 in number and are mostly small and marginal tribal farmers doing organic agriculture. The company serves clients (B2B food companies) from across the country as well as from South East Asian countries. The company’s products have reached the store shelves in India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Europe.The company won the first National Entrepreneurship Award (2016-17) under SC/ST Category and was awarded by the Honourable Home Minister of India, Shri Rajnath Singh ji. The award ceremony was organised by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India.The company provides forward market linkages to organic farmers of Northeast India, and promote and market their farm produce in India. The company has so far benefited over 10000 small and marginal tribal farmers of the region, and was instrumental in improving the income and providing sustainable livelihoods to these farmer families. The company does contract farming with buy-back agreements with the organic farmers collectives (FPC/FPOs & Farmer Groups) associated with them. The company is fortunate to be working with three Krishi Ratna awardee farmers of the region. The company’s revenue has broken even in the 2015-16 financial year. | $6.8K |  | Jan 30, 2017 |  |
| SkillSonics India | SkillSonics enhances competitiveness of customer companies by imparting global level skills to their entry-level and existing technicians. Our vocational courses draw from Swiss content and pedagogy. The Swiss Vocational Education and Training (VET) model produces skilled workers who are considered to be the backbone of Switzerland’s thrivingeconomy and competitive strength.SkillSonics has forged exclusive partnerships with Swiss bodies – The Sector Organization of the Swiss Mechanical and Electrical Manufacturing Industries (SWISSMEM) and Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET), to adapt the Swiss VET model to the Indian context. | $22.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 28, 2013 |  |
| ALC India | India's marginalized producers (such as the small and marginal farmers) battle formidable odds to eke out a fragile livelihood. To such producers, ALC India offers professional services delivered by a team of passionate individuals who have graduated from some of India's better institutions.Blending technical and managerial expertise,ALC India's services assist the economically marginalized communities to turn the odds in their favor and build livelihoods that are more certain, rewarding, and sustainable. Access Livelihoods Consulting India (ALC India) is a leading management consultant in India, focusing on promoting sustainable livelihoods for the poor. Three management professionals with 10 years of experience in the promotion of a variety of livelihoods at the grassroots level started ALC India in 2005. In the last 12 years, ALC India has worked with 10 communities, helped 65,000 households increasing their livelihood opportunities, supported building 54 producer enterprises, worked in 17 states, and consulted for more than 500 techno-managerial projects. | $185K | Debt Financing | Jan 01, 2013 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does National Skill Development Corporation invest in?

National Skill Development Corporation invests primarily in EdTech, Education and Corporate Training startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is National Skill Development Corporation's check size?

National Skill Development Corporation typically joins rounds of $185k–$23M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds National Skill Development Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact National Skill Development Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at National Skill Development Corporation?

The team at National Skill Development Corporation includes Dilip Chenoy (MD & CEO), Subramaniam Ramadorai (Chairman of the Board of Directors) and Arunkumar Pillai (Chief Strategy Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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