Lightspeed-backed edtech company FrontRow lays off 130 more employees

• ByStartupStory     |    October 13, 2022

FrontRow an edtech startup has laid off another 130 employees four months after sacking a similar number of employees earlier.

Front Row is an e-learning platform consisting of comedy, sports, creative arts, and hobbies. The company was founded in 2020 by Shubhadit Sharma, Mikhil Raj, and Ishaan Preet Singh and counts Elevation Capital, Lightspeed India, Eight Roads Ventures, GSV Ventures among others, along with Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal as its backers. The Bengaluru-based startup had raised $14 million as a part of its Series A round in September last year.

The cofounder of the company stated that during the edtech boom Frontrow had doubled down on its marketing and sales headcount, which did not fructify for the company “We have scaled down our team massively and are rethinking our acquisition channels and our go-to market from scratch. We have a 40 people team now who are committed to it and we still plan to build in the segment,” he addedd.

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