Founder S P Balamurugan pitching Chennai-based Guvi Geek Network – that offers an Edtech IT skill acceleration online platform in vernacular Indian languages and monetizes through connecting suitable candiates to job givers; GUVI (Grab Ur Vernacular Imprint) is an RTBI-IIT Madras incubated Startup.
website:www.guvi.in
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3TU1JlplvU
“Learners can learn latest IT skills in his own language, practice code challenges, showcase their learning through code snippets, projects and self-evaluations. All these activities and data’s are tracked, personalized user activity profile is built and shared with the recruiters in the platform thereby connecting the learners with the right jobs. GUVI uses similar approach like Udacity but the path breaking difference is that we deliver the contents in vernacular languages,” says Balamurugan.
Some success points:
– the platform has more than 100,000 learners, 150 industry mentors & 42 clients
– hosts 1000+ technical videos in vernacular languages
– GUVI’s YouTube channel gained more than 1m views and 5000+ Subscribers
– conducted developer boot camps in 50+ colleges
– won a major project QEEE (IITM’s project)
– working with Anna University, IIT- Madras, Velammal, SRM, MEPCO, St.Joseph and 52 other top colleges in Tamilnadu
– mentored and placed 700+ candidates in corporates and startups
– winner of crowd product pitch held at Chennai
– DBS ,Juspay, PayPal, GoFrugal , ChargeBee, Freshdesk, Ticketgoose, Gigamon, Urjanet are clients
Founders:
M Arunprakash, Founder & CTO
S P Balamurugan, Cofounder & CEO
M Sridevi, Cofounder & COO
Media:
http://www.timesnow.tv/india/video/3-common-people-show-us-the-way/54235
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/guvi-sidelines-english-trains-coders-in-tamil-telugu-and-marathi-117071600488_1.html
yourstory.com/2016/01/vernacular/
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Learn-in-your-language-via-GUVI-on-Youtube/2016/09/08/article3615506.ece
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Online-regional-language-courses-gain-traction/articleshow/52333642.cms
