Edtech startup Skill-Lync raises $17.5 mn in funding led by Iron Pillar

Skill-Lync, India’s largest edtech startup for engineering, has raised $17.5 million in a funding round led by Iron Pillar, a venture growth investor backing global tech companies built from India.

Existing investors Y Combinator and Better Capital also participated in the Series A round. Binny Bansal, a cofounder of Flipkart; Sai Krishnamurthy who worked with Flipkart once; and Rashmi Kwatra, founder of Sixteenth Street Capital joined as new investors.

Skill-Lync provides courses in mechanical, electrical, civil and computer science engineering domains. It was launched in April 2018 by Suryanarayanan P (CEO) and Sarangarajan V (CTO).

The rapid adoption of new technologies by industries has created a need for the constant upskilling of engineering professionals, said Suryanarayanan P, cofounder and CEO of Skill-Lync.