The Designer’s Class, India’s leading and one-of-its kind holistic e-learning platform focusing on varied design verticals, has raised a Series-A funding of US$ 1 million from a set of angel investors led by Shivtej Investment Advisory Pvt. Ltd, represented by Pratik Bafna, and investor Anupam Lunavat.
This round of funding will enable the e-learning design venture to strengthen its immersive learning technology infrastructure, enhance its online course portfolio, add more languages on its platform and execute its mission of democratising design education in its entirety.
The Designer’s Class (TDC) is on a mission critical journey to make design education affordable, accessible and engaging globally. The courses are designed with high quality global content curated by academic thinkers enabling self-paced learning, coupled with engaging workbooks, demos and quizzes. Globally renowned designers such as Gauri Khan, Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, Masaba Gupta and many more as faculty of your choice, state of the art e-learning platform, constant support from industry stalwarts, student centric program, hands-on teaching mechanism, custom designed program by industry professionals, certifications signed by designers and internship opportunities with leading design veterans are together making TDC the most sought-after design learning platform. It’s the first Indian platform that truly bridges the gap between the design student and the design industry.
Samarth Bajaj, Co-founder & CEO, The Designer’s Class, “We have been looking at raising funds from strategic investors so that we can add more value to India’s design eco-system through rich design pedagogy. We are committed to deliver premium design education for future design enthusiasts making them quality oriented, affordable and future ready. The funding will be used towards technological enhancement offering an unprecedented educational experience; which will support more languages and truly enable immersive learning capabilities. Expansion of course offerings spanning over a multitude of design based verticals. Enhancement of value add offered to students on our platform through expansive internship placement options and certification options. Increased market presence by entering deeper into India’s heartland and in newer emerging global markets.”
“By 2025, we are looking at providing 200+ design related courses in 50+ design-based verticals to a student base of 100,000 candidates,” he added.
