Arivihan raises $10.2 million Series A led by Accel, Prosus

INDORE: Arivihan, an education technology company that sells AI-based tutoring to school students, says it has raised a Series A round of $10.2 million. According to the company's statement, $10 million came from Accel and Prosus Ventures, which co-led the round, and the remaining $200,000 from angel investors associated with the GSF accelerator. The company describes its platform as an automated learning service in Indian languages for students outside the big metros.

Both lead investors are existing backers. Accel's portfolio page lists Arivihan with Ritesh Singh Chandel, Sonu Kumar and Rushabh Kothari as founders. Arivihan's own website names Ritesh Singh as chief executive, Sonu Kumar Prashant as chief technology officer and Rushabh Kothari as chief operating officer. The company says it was founded in 2022.

What the company sells

The website calls Arivihan a fully automated vernacular online learning platform for school students, aimed mainly at families in Tier 2 and smaller cities. It says it offers lectures in regional languages at about a tenth of the fee charged by local coaching classes. That comparison is the company's own, and no independent figure was available to test it.

The company says the product combines lectures, an AI assistant that answers doubts, and study plans. It serves board examination students, with NEET and CBSE preparation also on offer, according to the company.

Investors and earlier funding

In a note published on 31 July 2025, Accel said it first met the founders at their Indore office in late 2023, when it was taking applications for the first Atoms-AI batch, and that it co-led an earlier round with Prosus Ventures. In that note Accel claimed Arivihan had become the most used education app for high school students in Madhya Pradesh. The claim comes from the investor and has not been independently checked.

Accel's portfolio page names Anagh Prasad as its partner on the investment. GSF is a startup accelerator, and the individual angels behind the $200,000 have not been named in any official source consulted.

Use of funds and the wider climate

The company has said the new money will go towards entering more states, building material for CBSE students, strengthening its AI and vernacular language work, and spending on performance marketing and local distribution. Most of the round, in other words, is aimed at reaching more students rather than at a new product.

The round arrives after several hard years for Indian edtech. Investment dried up after the pandemic surge, and the troubles at Byju's made many funds wary of the sector. Investors have since shown interest in a narrower set of companies, especially those using AI to cut delivery costs. A $10.2 million round is modest by the standard of the earlier boom.

Caveats

Several things remain unclear. Arivihan has not published revenue, subscriber counts or learning outcomes on its website, so claims about scale and effectiveness cannot be assessed. We could not find a release on the websites of Arivihan, Accel or Prosus, so the round's size and split rest on the company's statement as attributed above. Founding details and titles also vary between public listings.

Families weighing paid AI tutoring may want to look for free trials and clear refund terms, and to check that the syllabus and language match their child's board.