Ed-tech startup, Uppskill has announced raising Rs.1 crore from Bengaluru-based Investment Tech startup, Ok! Acquired and its investors. This is uppskill’s first institutional round of seed funding. With this new round of seed funding, the current valuation of Uppskill now stands at $1 million. Co-founded by entrepreneurs Arbab Usmani & Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Uppskill is a skill-based educational platform that changes the way people learn and develop skills required to acquire jobs or help them directly in their businesses.

The online educational platform intends to use these funds to build its tech platform further and expand in different training areas such as sales, operations, finances, and tech.

This round of funding will further be used to expand to more cities for offline training and customised corporate training for groups and individuals.

Arbab Usmani, Co-Founder and CEO, Uppskill said, “With this partnership, we aim to empower more people and make our ecosystem better. We will use this fund to scale our learning platform by investing in Technology so that we can impact more lives and empower more students.”