byteXL unveils new office in Hyderabad
The new facility will accommodate the expanding team to cater to the increasing customers
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Hyderabad: byteXL, one of the leading experiential learning platforms for IT career aspirants, on Friday inaugurated its new office here at Hitec City. The startup will operate out of its newly opened office at the iLabs Centre in the IT cluster. Spread across an area of 3,200 sft, the office will accommodate up to 75 employees. The office will play a significant role in product development, R&D and Innovation.
Karun Tadepalli, Founder and CEO,byteXL said: "byteXL is continuing to grow as it is entering new geographies and signing up more institutes. In order to serve our growing customers, we are aggressively expanding our teams, and, therefore, this new office will help bring all the innovative bright minds together. We are on course to witness high growth in institute tie-ups by reaching 175 institutes overall and 2.4 lakh students, thereby recording 100 per cent and 140 per cent increase respectively."
The company is on course to increase its employee base from the current team of 163 full-time employees and consultants to 250 by March 2023. It is also working with over 90 institutes training 1,00,000 students from 7 Indian states on new age technologies including Cloud, AI, ML, DevOps, FullStack Development, and Cyber Security through a Hybrid Learning Platform and guided Career Accelerated program.
The company has already raised $1.2 million in funding from US-based investors and is aiming at achieving a 400 per cent increase in revenues by targeting $11 million for the financial year 2022-23. byteXL has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to impart training to students from tier 2 & 3 educational institutes across the nation in new age and emerging technologies under the pan-India initiative – 'XLerate', supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). These would play a critical role in not only enhancing the 'Employability Quotient' of students but also help in the transformation of the institutes and empower them to produce quality industry-ready talent in the long run.
According to Statista estimates, the market valuation of the Indian Edtech industry was $2.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $10.4 billion by 2025. In the skill development category of edtech, it had estimated the market size to be at $260 million, increasing to $730 million by the year 2025.
