Whitehat Jr

WhiteHat Jr founder Karan Bajaj’s health tech startup Complement 1 raises $16-million seed round

The funds will be used to scale operations in the US, expand coaching infrastructure, enhance AI-driven personalisation engine and partner with cancer centres, health plans, and employers, the start-up said

Non-profit Code.org sues Byju’s-owned WhiteHat Jr

The non-profit organisation filed a case against WhiteHat Jr on December 1, alleging breach of contract against the latter.

Byju’s to rebrand WhiteHat Jr as Byju's Future School, fully merge operations with itself

A merger of WhiteHat Jr with self would thus help the company in reducing its overall burn, which will be critical considering its impending cash needs

WhiteHat Jr CEO Ananya Tripathi resigns, in another top level exit at Byju's

Tripathi joined WhiteHat Junior in April of last year. She was the Managing Director at KKR Capstone before joining WhiteHat Junior. A McKinsey alumni, Tripathi also served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Myntra for almost four years.

SoftBank-backed Unacademy hives off coding platform CodeChef for better efficiencies

Unacademy will make a one-time investment into CodeChef and the company, with effect from April 1, will be an independent company owned and run by the current team.

'Byju's fired me without stating a proper reason. I was devastated', shares employee

"Treating an employee with such disrespect is extremely unethical," Rajshree Dhar, a content developer with Byju's, said. Thursday is her last working day at the company.

Exclusive: Deep cuts at Byju's: Over 2,500 employees laid off across Byju’s, Whitehat Junior and Toppr

Byju's has laid off full-time and contractual employees from Toppr, WhiteHat Jr, and its core team across sales and marketing, operations, content and design teams

Byju’s-owned WhiteHat Jr lays off 280-300 employees

Sources have also told Moneycontrol that employees from the sales and marketing team are largely impacted by this round of layoffs.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr employees resign after being asked to return to office: Report

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr employees have resigned from the edtech start-up after being asked to return to office.

Karan Bajaj leaves WhiteHat Jr a year after Byju's acquisition, Trupti Mukker to take over

Karan Bajaj leaves WhiteHat Jr a year after the controversial company was acquired by Byju's in a landmark $350 million all-cash deal.

WhiteHat Jr drops defamation suit against critic Pradeep Poonia

Last year, the Byju’s-owned startup accused software engineer Poonia of infringing trademarks and copyright of properties owned by WhiteHat Jr. Poonia’s social handle was WhiteHat Sr.

WhiteHat Jr controversy | Wish I'd focused on ads earlier: CEO Karan Bajaj

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) asked WhiteHat Jr in October to withdraw five advertisements due to misleading claims

WhiteHat Jr says it has 'fixed vulnerabilities' that could expose data of 2.8 lakh minor users: Report

According to a reasearcher, personal data of over 2.8 lakh students, including names of their parents, was lying exposed due to a vulnerability on WhiteHat Jr server-side, which, the company says, has been fixed

Byju's international head Abhishek Maheshwari joins Aakash as CEO

Abhishek Maheshwari joined Byju's in July 2019, prior to which he was the India head of the Walt Disney Company.

WhiteHat Jr files Rs 14 crore defamation suit against investor Aniruddha Malpani

Aniruddha Malpani tweeted that the Bjyu's-owned WhiteHat Jr has filed a lawsuit of Rs 14 crore against him.

WhiteHat Jr Defamation Suit: Your freedom of expression ends where my nose begins, says Karan Bajaj’s lawyer during hearing against Pradeep Poonia

The case has been adjourned to January 6, 2021 and Poonia has been given three weeks to file a reply and two weeks for a rejoinder

Remember GMVs? Startups now flaunt ARR—an equally fuzzy, misleading metric