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Type of site | Privately held company |
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Available in | 22 languages |
Founded | 2014 |
Headquarters | Jaipur, India[2]= |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Nishant Patni Pranshu Patni |
Industry | E-Learning, Online Education |
Parent | Intap Labs Private Limited |
URL | www |
Registration | Yes |
Users | 50 million (as of September 2020)[3] |
Launched | October 2014 |
Current status | Active |
Hello English is an English language-learning application, which allows users to learn the English language through interactive modules.[4][5][6][7] It functions on a freemium pricing model. The app is available on Android, iOS, Windows and Web.[8][9]
Hello English was launched in October 2014 by CultureAlley.[10] It is an edtech startup co-founded by Nishant Patni, an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Kellogg School of Management along with Pranshu Patni, an alumnus of NMIMS, back in December 2012.[11][5][12][1][13] It runs under Jaipur based Intap Labs Private Limited.[14][15][16]
The platform raised $6.5 million in Series-A funding led by New York-based venture capital firm Tiger Global Management in March, 2015.[17][18][19][20] The other participants included Kae Capital (led by Sasha Mirchandani), and 500 Startups, California, and angel investors - Rajan Anandan and Sunil Kalra.[citation needed]
The platform had previously raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Kae Capital in 2013.[21]
The application consists of 475 interactive lessons and games associated with reading, writing, speaking, and listening and has gamification mechanics in the app. It has a bilingual dictionary, available in 22 languages.[4][22]