For the Indian media mogul and serial entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, the shift from UTV — a multimedia conglomerate he pioneered — to edtech was a rather thought-through process.
“After having moved out of media and entertainment [UTV was sold to Walt Disney in 2012], I was looking for something that I wanted to do in the capacity of an entrepreneur and not as an investor – something that I could start from scratch,” Screwvala recalled the genesis of the edtech platform upGrad, in an interview with DealStreetAsia on the Zoom app.
The startup is now on the verge of launching in Singapore and Indonesia.
