Mumbai:  Investment platform We Founder Circle (WFC), led by a global community of founders and strategic angels, has led a seed round worth Rs 3.75 crore in an edutainment startup, Seekho. Many strategic angels have banded together to propel the start-up to new heights.

Seekho said that it aims to define an entirely new category of edutainment content by combining educational content with entertaining byte-sized videos, building a "Netflix for Learning." Seekho plans to use the investment to expand into new languages and expand their already diverse premium content library.

The current round witnessed participation from We Founder Circle and SucSEED Innovation Fund, along with Toppr co-founder Hemanth Goteti and other executives.

IITK alumni Rohit Choudhary, Keertay Agarwal, and Yash Banwani founded the company in 2020. The startup is already backed by PointOne Capital, 3one4 Capital, First Cheque, Callapina Capital and entrepreneurs including Anupam Mittal (People Group), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Ramakant Sharma (Livspace), Zishaan Hayath (Toppr), Dinesh Goel (Aasaanjobs), Alok Mittal (IAN), Miten Sampat (CRED), Aakrit Vaish (Haptik), Harsh Shah (Fynd) and Harpreet Singh (Cocubes).

We Founder Circle co-founder Gaurav VK Singhvi said, “At We Founder Circle, we are pleased to have invested in Seekho since they have demonstrated the will and smart ideas required to run a start-up. The start-up has the potential to revolutionise the education system and benefit society in a great way. We pledge our mentorship and support to Seekho, and we intend to cover all aspects of their development, including business strategy, product development, community building, and connecting with potential business mentors.”

Seekho founder and CEO Rohit Choudhary added, “At Seekho, we are thrilled to have WFC and SucSEED as strategic investment partners, especially at this time when we are seeing really promising early results from the launch of Seekho PLUS subscriptions. With such strategic angels on board, we intend to scale up quickly and reach one lakh paying subscribers in the next six months.”