K Ganesh's TutorVista Receives $2 Million From Sequoia Capital

TutorVista.com, an Indian web-based tutorial and consumer services firm, has received $2 million in series A funding from Sequoia Capital. TutorVista is founded K Ganesh, a serial entrepreneur who exited BPO firm CustomerAsset, and had also founded business analytics startup Marketics. TutorVista.com

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I heard that several

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I heard that several TutorVista-type companies have received angel funding...Vie-Nova, SchoolTrainer Tutoring, Tutor Easy and Tutor Next. Do you have any information on this?

I know that PrepMe -

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I know that PrepMe - www.prepme.com - has an Indian CEO and CTO but it seems as if they are US-based. I heard about them as they were on the front cover of Fortune Small Business late last year. They also have an interesting model but I think all of their tutors are from Stanford and University of Chicago.

I think Career Launcher has

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I think Career Launcher has similar plans. They have partnered with Texas-based Powermath for entering the US market.

Looks like online tutoring

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Looks like online tutoring has a great potential for India based companies. Any other upcoming key players in this field in India?

Educomp Solutions

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Educomp Solutions (www.educomp.com) is one of the early pioneers who started the B2C model for online tutoring in 2005 serving the US consumers with their Mentoraide service: http://www.mentoraide.com

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