Shaktimaan.ai raises $2 Mn from Y Combinator, others

Artificial intelligence-powered educational platform Shaktimaan.ai has secured $2 million in its seed funding round co-led by Y Combinator, Fundersclub, GoodWater Capital, founders of Jar, along with other investors.

The proceeds will be allocated towards building an LLM (Language Model) trained for diverse educational use cases and enhancing the platform’s capabilities and adaptability, Shaktimaan.ai said in a press release.

Co-founded in early 2023 by Vimal Singh Rathore and Aseem Gupta, Shaktimaan's current offerings include real-time doubt resolution and personalised feedback, with detailed evaluations of students' handwritten answers. This approach helps UPSC aspirants with targeted assistance and efficient study plans. The learning platform aims to make learning easily accessible, engaging, and tailored for aspiring candidates.

The learning platform aims to reach the milestone of serving 100,000 students by December 2023.

Early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator announced its Winter 2023 cohort in April this year. Out of 282, 12 Indian startups were selected in the cohort which includes Atri Labs, Codeparrot, SuperAPI, Mantys, Clueso and UpTrain AI