About Leverage Edu
Our Story
Why we exist / Our raison d'etre
Leverage Edu was founded on the vital premise that each of us has the right to uncouple our destiny from that of the country we are born in; in order that we are able to better realise and fulfill our potential.
At Leverage, we believe our potential is independent of our nation’s potential, and that we have the right to separate our trajectory from that of our birthplace. We are the true ‘masters of our fate, the captains of our souls.’ We control and determine our destinies, not our... Read More
This is us
Leverage Edu helps students figure what they should do and where they should be at - wherever that be in the world - to realise their full potential. It helps students navigate & assess their journey thus far, matches them to personalised mentors, counsels them towards their higher education dream with an employability lens, and makes sure that everyone punched way above their weight to make dreams come alive and truly be able to level up.

Our Progress
So far
15,000+
Students
received offers from top universities in UK, US, Australia, Canada & more
650+
University Partners
abroad for seamless application submission and student experience

2 Million+
Counsellings
in the last 6 years of our existence, growing at a 150,000+ every month today

80 Million+
Users
who browsed the platform last year across our wide range of products
Our Offerings
We simplify international admissions for students, universities & our partners
Leverage Edu
Study abroad platform serving over 9 million monthly visitors.
Our Offerings
We simplify international admissions for students, universities & our partners




Our Investors
Fuelling the Rocketship
VCs / Institutions

Karthik Reddy
Co-founder & Managing Partner at Blume Ventures
“Akshay and team have put in place strong...
“Akshay and team have put in place strong frameworks for building a large, long-term company in this first year of our partnership. The scale of the overseas education opportunity set is even more massive than we initially imagined and the pace at which the team has executed has meant that we are happy to see ourselves co-leading a second round with DSG into an early breakout from fund III.”

Sandeep Aneja
Founder And Managing Partner, Kaizenvest
“We have been looking at various companies in the Overseas...
“We have been looking at various companies in the Overseas Student Mobility space and are happy to have partnered with LeverageEdu, a company with the right product positioning, traction & stage to work together with on the growth journey. LeverageEdu checks the boxes of our education framework of Access (opportunities for students to study abroad), Quality (complete student services and university matching), and Relevance (multi country and cultural awareness)."

Aditi Kothari
Vice Chairperson of DSP
“I invest in entrepreneurs: their integrity, positive and...
“I invest in entrepreneurs: their integrity, positive and abundant energy, and ability to have an open mind and adapt. I saw this in Akshay in addition to of course the vast opportunity in the area in which he is playing and is a sizeable player. I am excited to help as we build this out to market domination.”

Deepak Shahdadpuri
Founder & Managing Director at DSG Consumer Partners
“DSGCP first invested in Leverage Edu and...
“DSGCP first invested in Leverage Edu and partnered with Akshay a year ago. In that short period, Akshay and his team have demonstrated very strong execution capabilities and have positioned Leverage Edu as a leading emergent higher education and career advisory brand. We are very excited about the next phase of growth as Leverage Edu expands into becoming a full stack service provider and expands operations to more Indian cities.”

Anirudh Damani
CEO & Managing Director Artha Group
“The end to end financing piece of LeverageEdu, which I believe...
“The end-to-end financing piece of LeverageEdu, which I believe is still in pilot, is a game-changer. While solving a massive problem for students & parents, the financial services is in itself a multi-billion dollar opportunity for LeverageEdu & the initial traction has been beyond our wildest expectations!”

Rahul Khurana
Co-founder & Managing Director at Trifecta Capital
“Believe Leverage Edu is well on its way to cementi...
“Believe Leverage Edu is well on its way to cementing its leadership in the digital-first student immigration segment & are excited to partner with Akshay and the Leverage Edu team!”

Rohini Prakash
Founder & CEO at Tomorrow Capital
“We believe it is inevitable that the next stellar bra...
“We believe it is inevitable that the next stellar brand in the global cross-border education space will be a home-grown one. We have a great belief in Akshay as a founder — he has a fantastic roadmap for scaling the business and the passion to build a truly global Indian edtech brand — and are excited about working with the Leverage Edu team on this journey.”



Family Offices




Individual Operators

Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Paytm

Kunal Shah
CRED

Ashish Hemrajani
BookMyShow

Haresh Chawla
True North

Peyush Bansal
Lenskart

Farid Ahsan
ShareChat

Ankur Warikoo
Entrepreneur and Author

Vishal Gondal
GOQii

Ash Lilani
Saama Capital

Amrish Rau
Pine Labs

Mark O’Donoghue
Hotcourses (Sold to IDP)

Anshu Sharma
Skyflow

Vikas Choudhary
Jio

Ankit Tandon
OYO

Henry Kane
Dynamic IT Consultants

Rohit Kapoor
OYO

Amanpreet Bajaj
Airbnb

Anindya Ghose
NYU

Ritesh Malik
Indian doctor, entrepreneur and investor

Rannvijay Singha
Indian actor, television personality and VJ

James Schmidtke
CSU

Bhagwan Chowdhry
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Lalit Singh
Udacity

Mohit Garg
Oloid

Anand Shankeshwar
VRL Logistics

Sadashiva NT
Constellation Blu
In the News
Talk of the town




Announcing Leverage Edu's $6.5m Series A
In 2014 September, as part of his Zero to One book launch promotion campaign, Peter Thiel did an AMA (ask me anything) with Forbes’s subscribers. In that AMA, he was asked about the most important and influential book he had read. Strangely, the book Thiel mentioned wasn’t a book by Rene Girard, the Stanford professor – philosopher who Thiel acknowledges as a big influence, but rather an obscure book called The Sovereign Individual, written in 1997.


Sajith Pai
Announcing Leverage Edu's $6.5m Series A
In 2014 September, as part of his Zero to One book launch promotion campaign, Peter Thiel did an AMA (ask me anything) with Forbes’s subscribers. In that AMA, he was asked about the most important and influential book he had read. Strangely, the book Thiel mentioned wasn’t a book by Rene Girard, the Stanford professor – philosopher who Thiel acknowledges as a big influence, but rather an obscure book called The Sovereign Individual, written in 1997.

Piyush Surana
Thoughts on our investment in Leverage Edu
Mobility (or lack thereof) and the increased access to opportunities have often had large, and often unseen, consequences on the development of human societies, some of which are still felt globally today.
Our Students
Across the globe

UK
7000+ Offers
Canada
4500+ Offers
USA
4000+ Offers
Australia
1200+ Offers
Ireland
1000+ Offers
India
900+ Offers
Germany
600+ Offers
France
600+ Offers
China
300+ Offers
New Zealand
150+ Offers
Spain
150+ Offers
Italy
70+ Offers
Switzerland
30+ Offers
Singapore
30+ Offers
South Korea
30+ Offers
Finland
30+ Offers
Belgium
30+ Offers
Poland
30+ Offers
Netherlands
30+ Offers
Hongkong
30+ Offers
Russia
30+ Offers