<p>School communication platform Uolo on Tuesday announced a Rs 20 crore fundraise in a round led by impact investor Omidyar Network India and Blume Ventures.</p>.<p>The money raised will be used for expansion activities on both the technology and operations side, an official statement said, adding it is aiming for a ten-fold growth in its user base in two years.</p>.<p>Uolo partners with private schools to bring the teacher-student-parent community online through its mobile app and helps students continue learning in an online, social and after-school setting. It is presently working with over 10 lakh students across 2,000 schools in 200 cities at present.</p>.<p>It can be noted that there has been a massive shift to online tools of teaching since the beginning of the pandemic, as schools had to be shut.</p>.<p>Blume's director Sajith Pai said Uolo has helped onboard hundreds of schools online during the pandemic.</p>.<p>Omidyar's principal Sarvesh Kanodia said Uolo is enabling schools to become digital through its low-cost, easy to use product offerings and his firm is backing it in their mission to achieve scale.</p>.<p>"In the next 2 years, we plan to bring 20,000 schools comprising 10 million students to build an active online community," the company's co-founder and chief executive Pallav Pandey said.</p>
<p>School communication platform Uolo on Tuesday announced a Rs 20 crore fundraise in a round led by impact investor Omidyar Network India and Blume Ventures.</p>.<p>The money raised will be used for expansion activities on both the technology and operations side, an official statement said, adding it is aiming for a ten-fold growth in its user base in two years.</p>.<p>Uolo partners with private schools to bring the teacher-student-parent community online through its mobile app and helps students continue learning in an online, social and after-school setting. It is presently working with over 10 lakh students across 2,000 schools in 200 cities at present.</p>.<p>It can be noted that there has been a massive shift to online tools of teaching since the beginning of the pandemic, as schools had to be shut.</p>.<p>Blume's director Sajith Pai said Uolo has helped onboard hundreds of schools online during the pandemic.</p>.<p>Omidyar's principal Sarvesh Kanodia said Uolo is enabling schools to become digital through its low-cost, easy to use product offerings and his firm is backing it in their mission to achieve scale.</p>.<p>"In the next 2 years, we plan to bring 20,000 schools comprising 10 million students to build an active online community," the company's co-founder and chief executive Pallav Pandey said.</p>