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A fire sale of two of its overseas assets is merely a band-aid solution to the edtech company’s cash flow troubles, which only seem to be getting worse.

A fire sale is underway at Byju’s and a US-based private equity firm seems to be in the lead to buy some of its assets, according to two people in the know, who requested anonymity.
“There is strong chatter about a US-based private equity fund extending a $500 million term sheet for one of those two assets,” says one of the persons quoted above. India’s largest education technology company is in talks to sell two of its assets—kids’ reading platform Epic and higher education company Great Learning—and raise up to $1 billion to repay the $1.2 billion term loan it …
Co-founders Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari made Physics Wallah the company it is today by keeping their focus on the digital media, test-prep business. With fresh funds at its disposal after the IPO, it is making the mistake of believing it is an education company.
The UAE-based school operator is making a move into Saudi Arabia as it enters its biggest expansion phase yet.
The technology investor’s move to pour Rs 2,000 crore into the online travel aggregator comes as a surprise. Can ixigo live up to the promise of becoming India’s next big travel platform?