How Ulipsu Is Redefining Skill Education Across Schools with Multi-Skill Learning Models

Ulipsu did not begin in a boardroom. It began in a classroom - with two people watching children sit through lessons they would never use, in a system that had no plan for what those children were actually good at. Sumanth Prabhu MG and Nikhil Bhaskar, who founded Kidvento Education & Research Pvt. Ltd. in Bengaluru in 2017, were not building another app. They were trying to answer a question that India's school system had quietly avoided for decades: what happens to a child's potential when no one ever bothers to find it?

Eight years later, the numbers behind what Ulipsu has built are hard to argue with

In a segment where most EdTech companies chased consumer wallets and lost, Ulipsu quietly built an institutional model - and is now one of the few platforms in India's school skill education market with the unit economics to prove it.

Today, Ulipsu reaches 350,000+ students across 350+ schools in 30+ cities, spanning Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab and Chhattisgarh. It runs 16+skill domains, with 3 skills matched to each student's assessment results - delivered through structured skill modules across Classes 1 to 10 - bringing structured, measurable skill development to students who previously had no alternative beyond textbook-driven learning. In FY 2025-26, the company turned EBITDA positive and is entering the next year with 2.5x growth in school bookings - spanning private schools, government institutional orders, and early international expansion.

In an EdTech market that has seen far more shutdowns than success stories since 2022, Ulipsu is an exception that the data makes difficult to ignore - growing profitably, inside real school classrooms, with institutional contracts rather than consumer subscriptions driving its revenue.

India Has 247 Million School Children. Most of Them Have No Skill Pathway

India has approximately 1.5 million schools and 247 million school-going students (UDISE+ 2024-25). The overwhelming majority will spend a decade learning to pass examinations - with almost no structured exposure to the skills the modern economy is actually asking for.

India's National Education Policy 2020 responded to this reality by mandating skill-based education from early grades. But a policy mandate and a working classroom system are two entirely different things. Schools acknowledged the gap. What most could not do was operationalise it - and that is the precise space Ulipsu has spent eight years building into.

What Ulipsu Actually Built - And Why It Is Different

Most skill education in Indian schools before Ulipsu looked the same: a coding workshop in one term, a robotics kit that arrived and sat in a corner, a communication activity that ran for six weeks and disappeared. Well-intentioned. Isolated. Unmeasured. And structurally incapable of producing consistent outcomes because nothing was connected to anything else.

Ulipsu changed the architecture entirely. Rather than layering skills on top of an existing school day, Ulipsu is embedded inside the timetable as a scheduled subject - taught every week, across every grade from Class 1 to Class 10, with structured progression, continuous assessment, and real outcome tracking - where students build, apply, and demonstrate skills through hands-on projects rather than sitting through instruction.

The institutional model creates a renewal dynamic that consumer EdTech has never been able to replicate - schools that embed Ulipsu into their timetable stay, because the outcomes are visible every term in their own data.

Sixteen Plus Skills. One Continuous System. Zero Forced Specialisation

Ulipsu offers schools a pool of 16+ skill domains - spanning Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Finance and Entrepreneurship, Life Skills, Space Technology, Design Thinking, Digital Citizenship, Math, Language and Communication, and more. From this pool, schools select three skills - either a common set across all grades, or different skills mapped to four grade bands: Classes 1-2, 3-4, 5-7, and 8-10. The selection is not arbitrary. It is guided by Ulipsu's scientifically structured interest assessment, built on the Holland Code - a globally validated vocational interest framework used by career counselors and vocational psychologists worldwide. The assessment runs at student, class, and school level, generating recommendations that align each student's natural interest profile to the most relevant skill domains. No student is pushed into a subject because their grade was assigned it. The recommendation is evidence-based, the selection is structured, and the learning that follows is relevant to who that student actually is.

Starting Career Mapping at Grade 5 - Not Grade 11

In most Indian schools, the conversation about what a student is actually suited for happens at Class 11 or 12 - when stream selection forces a decision that should have been prepared for years earlier. Ulipsu moves that conversation to Class 5. Schools on Ulipsu can also choose to introduce new skills the following year - building cross-domain breadth in exploratory mode - or continue with the same skills so students develop genuine depth in an area they have already started. Both paths are deliberate, and both compound over time. And because this process begins years before the Class 11 crisis point, students and educators accumulate meaningful data about interests and strengths - rather than making a single high-stakes decision with almost no evidence behind it.

How Ulipsu Measures What Students Actually Learn

Measuring skill development on Ulipsu is not a single exam at the end of a term. It is a structured three-layer process. Students complete a baseline assessment at the start of each skill - establishing where they begin. Interactive assessments are embedded throughout the learning itself, tracking progress as skills are being built rather than after the fact. And at the end of each skill track, every student completes a capstone project - a practical, application-based piece of work that demonstrates what they have actually learned, not what they can recall under exam conditions. Across FY 2024-25 implementations, Ulipsu's internal cohort data recorded an average 20% improvement in skill progression scores between baseline and final assessment - a finding across deployments, not a guaranteed outcome for every school.

What Schools See on Their Dashboards

School administrators get something most EdTech platforms have never been able to provide - live, granular visibility into whether skill learning is actually happening. Dashboards at student, class, and school level display skill preferences and progression rates across each of the three selected skills. The data is not decorative. When a school can open a dashboard at the end of a term and see exactly where skill progression has improved and where it has stalled, the conversation about continuing with Ulipsu is not a sales conversation. It is a data conversation.

Aswinni Priyaa J., Principal, Bharathiyar Hi-Tech School, Salem, who has been on the platform since 2023: "We renewed because we could see the difference in how students approach problems - not just in Ulipsu classes but across subjects."

Outcomes that are visible tend to get funded - and this is one of the structural reasons Ulipsu has been able to convert pilot relationships into multi-year institutional partnerships across every state it operates in.

The Business: What the Numbers Say About Where Ulipsu Is Headed

The financial profile Kidvento has built looks increasingly distinctive in India's EdTech landscape. The company has raised $6 million to build Ulipsu from the ground up. It turned EBITDA positive in FY 2025-26. Entering FY 2026-27, school bookings have grown 2.5x, spanning private schools, government institutional orders, and early international expansion in Saudi Arabia & Qatar.

Behind that capital is a group of investors whose conviction has shaped Ulipsu's trajectory at every stage. Srajan Shetty and Sapna Shetty - UHNIs and NRI entrepreneurs based in Dubai - backed the company in 2021, when Ulipsu was still an idea on paper. They stayed invested through the 2022-2024 EdTech downturn that reset the entire sector, continuing to support the company at a time when most early-stage EdTech capital was retreating. Jaswant Singh, another UHNI and NRI entrepreneur, joined the cap table in 2023 and has continued to back the company through its institutional scale-up phase. The pattern across all three is the same - early conviction, long tenure, and continued participation as Ulipsu has moved from product-market fit to institutional adoption to government and international expansion. That kind of patient, founder-aligned capital is part of why the company has been able to build for the institutional model rather than chase the short-cycle metrics that destroyed most of the consumer EdTech sector.

Every module on Ulipsu is NEP 2020 and NCF 2023 aligned, ISTE and STEM.org accredited, and built on foundational research drawn from curriculum frameworks across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.

The addressable opportunity behind these numbers is significant. India has 1.5 million schools. Ulipsu is currently inside 350+ of them. The gap between those two numbers is not a problem - it is the runway. And because the model is institutional rather than consumer-facing, the economics of scaling are fundamentally different from what most EdTech companies have had to contend with: lower churn, longer contract cycles, and retention driven by curriculum adoption rather than impulse purchasing. Every new school that embeds Ulipsu into its timetable is not a transaction - it is a multi-year relationship with compounding revenue visibility.

Why Ulipsu Is Built to Last When Other EdTech Platforms Did Not

The EdTech shakeout of 2022-2024 revealed the fragility of consumer-facing models built on discounts, aggressive marketing, and products that parents bought but children did not consistently use. High customer acquisition costs. Low retention. Revenue that required constant reinvestment to sustain.

Ulipsu was never built on those foundations. Its customer is the school - an institution with an academic calendar, a budget cycle, and an obligation to its students that does not disappear when marketing spend drops. Its product is curriculum - the most embedded, hardest-to-replace category of educational product that exists. That combination - institutional customer, curriculum product, evidence base - is structurally different from anything the EdTech shakeout took down.

Ulipsu is also not building for one state, one regulatory framework, or one type of school. Its architecture - NEP aligned, internationally accredited, low infrastructure requirement, digital-first delivery - means it can expand across diverse environments without the delivery quality degrading.

The next phase of growth is already underway - and it is not confined to India. Ulipsu is currently active in private schools across Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with expansion into African and South East Asian markets planned for the coming year. Alongside international growth, Kidvento's entry into the government school segment marks a strategically significant move - one that shifts the platform's potential impact from hundreds of thousands of students to tens of millions. Private school adoption proved the model. Government and international deployment will prove the scale.

The Bottom Line

India's school system has been talking about skill education for years. The National Education Policy 2020 made it a mandate. State governments have announced programmes. Schools have run pilots. And most of those efforts have produced exactly what isolated, unmeasured, disconnected skill activities tend to produce: enthusiasm in the short term, and very little that a student can demonstrate three years later.

Ulipsu is the platform that is converting that intent into infrastructure - at scale, with measurement, with accreditation, and with the financial durability to keep doing it. Eight years in, built from inside the classroom, the results speak for themselves.