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Artium Academy raises $3 million in funding from Chiratae Ventures, others


Artium Academy recently announced that it has raised $3 million in a funding round led by tech-focused venture capital firm Chiratae Ventures. Anicut Capital, Jet Synthesis, Whiteboard Capital and Madhusudhan R (co-founder, M2P Finance), Priyamvada Balaji (executive director, Lucas Indian Service), Varun Alagh (co-founder, Mamaearth), Piyush Shah (co-founder, InMobi Group), Vikas Dosala (co-founder, Fraazo) participated in the round

In September last year Artium Academy had raised $750,000 in a seed round led by Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam, with participation from Whiteboard Capital and JetSynthesys.

The Mumbai-based startup has now tied up with Warner Music India and Global Music Junction (GMJ) to create original music content with its maestro’s, teachers, and learners under its brand Artium Originals.

Artium Academy

Co-founded by Ashish Joshi, Vivek Raicha, and Nithya Sudhir -Artium Academy is an online music learning and community platform, it offers music education using modern pedagogy combined with technology to deliver elevated learning and performing experience to learners. These courses are designed and certified by musicians such as Sonu Nigam, KS Chithra, Shubha Mudgal, Aruna Sairam, Louis Banks, Gino Banks, Raju Singh and Aneesh Pradhan. Voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan is chief of pedagogy at Artium.

“Chiratae’s Consumer Tech report talks about passion creators, and we see a significant opportunity in the passion, extracurricular learning space. We believe that performance arts for Indians living here and abroad is a significant addressable market which has no age limits as well. Artium’s depth of pedagogy combined with tech-first approach to build a scalable learning and performance platform stands out from other extracurricular horizontal platforms.”Said Anoop N Menon, Principal & Consumer Tech-lead of Chiratae Ventures.

 

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