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Eduauraa launches new campaign with brand ambassador Ranveer Singh
Mumbai: Ed-tech platform Eduauraa has launched a new campaign with Bollywood actor and brand ambassador Ranveer Singh. This 360-degree campaign titled ‘Ab Future pe sabka haq’ will be love across TV, print, radio, and digital.
Eduauraa brings together India’s best teachers from top schools teaching through 2D/3D interactive videos, eBooks, test & past papers, mind maps, scholarships & has personalized teacher-student interaction through live classes, doubt solving, scholarships and counselling
“We hope that with our cutting-edge technology and high-quality affordable education we are able to give students studying across all boards in English, Hindi and Marathi medium an equal opportunity,” said Eduauraa founder and CEO Akanksha Chaturvedi. “Over the last year, we have highly upgraded the customer experience on our app and Learning Management System by adding enhanced layers of AI, ML and human interaction for personalisation and progress tracking.”
“It is amazing to see the work that Eduauraa is doing in the edtech space and we are thrilled to be a conduit in the academic journey of millions. The pandemic further propelled the growth of the edtech industry, and it is a space that has been a great enabler to many,” commented Zee5 India chief business officer Manish Kalra. “Through this campaign, we hope to highlight the many ways in which online learning can substantiate the conventional classroom-based education. Furthermore, similar to the model adopted at Zee5 to democratise entertainment, Eduauraa is democratising quality education and making it affordable and accessible for students across the country. With Ranveer as the face, we’re confident of this message reaching far and wide, growing our user-base even further.”
Ranveer Singh added, “Eduauraa strives to make world class education affordable and accessible using innovation and technology. The mission is to democratise education in India so that no student should be deprived of quality education because of the high costs of online learning. Kyunki #AbFuturePeSabkaHaq. Thrilled to be part of this great initiative by my friend Akanksha Chaturvedi, the young and dynamic founder of Eduauraa.”
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
