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LEAD School

Sumeet Mehta
Smita Deorah
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Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not. I decided to change this sense of unfairness into a sense of purpose by asking: How do I bring equity of opportunity so that a child born in a small town or a low-income family has access to the same high quality education that a rich child from metro does? I believe that if we can transform schools where a child spends six hours everyday, we can transform India.

Sumeet Mehta
Co-founder, LEAD School

One day I became curious about the quality of the preschool my maid’s child attended. I walked in and saw thirty kids of various ages, cleaning and loitering around a dilapidated building, while my own two-year-old was learning how to read in a good preschool. This experience shook me and I knew instantly that this was going to be my life's work: bringing equity in education to all kids in India.

Smita Deorah
Co-founder, LEAD School
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LEAD School provides a full stack solution to K-12 schools in India to ensure improved learning outcomes, build educator capabilities and encourage meaningful parent engagement. The offering includes digitized curriculum and student materials, books, assessments, delivery pedagogy, teacher lesson plans, smart class hardware (TVs and tablets), a parent engagement app and a school ERP system for affordable private K-12 schools in India.

Focus areas:

  • Education
  • Technology
  • K-12
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Partnerships

  • Series C Investment:
    2020
  • Series D Investment:
    2021
  • Growth Equity Investment:
    2022