Cuemath, which has developed a mathematics learning programme for school children in the 5-13 age group and which it teaches through approved and trained teachers from their homes, has raised about ₹27 crore ($4 million) in Series A funding from Sequoia India. Existing investor Unitus Seed Fund participated in the round.

The venture offers a technology platform for women to run home-based learning centres for students from LKG to the 8th standard.

According to Manan Khurma, founder, Cuemath will use the money to expand its reach and refine the product. It had raised about ₹1 crore from Unitus in 2014.

Cuemath’s classes are available in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. Nearly 5,000 students go through the mathematics classes under the Cuemath system in about 1,000 centres now. The company plans to increase the student strength to about 25,000 by the end of this year.

According to Khurma, the company has signed on over 1,200 teachers from the nearly 25,000 who had applied to be part of the Cuemath network. Each batch will consist of eight students. The fees range from ₹1,500-2,000 a month, depending on the geography.

Filling gaps Cuemath’s programme — developed by mathematics experts from institutions such as IIT, IIM, Cambridge and Stanford — covers school maths, aptitude and creative reasoning. It uses a mix of worksheets and technology to solve gaps in maths learning. It divides the learning into three — school maths, which is about fundamental curriculum learning; mental aptitude, which helps build the child’s calculation and non-calculation skills; and creative reasoning, which deals with the ability to solve open-ended and unseen problems using logical deduction.

Khurma, an IIT Delhi graduate and an author of mathematics books, said Cuemath employed technology, had proprietary content and an offline distribution model.

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