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PhysicsWallah

Edtech Noida Founded 2020🦄 Unicorn₹830 cr raised

Affordable test preparation platform.

www.pw.live
VedAI Score
639
out of 1,000
promising
Last rescored
37 days ago
How the score breaks down
Market Opportunity92
Team Quality85
Product & Technology78
Traction95
Financials88
Competitive Position90
Founder–Market Fit95
Capital Efficiency96
Public Presence94

"PhysicsWallah represents exceptional execution in democratizing test prep with impressive capital efficiency - reaching unicorn status with minimal funding and achieving profitability. The founder-led brand, mass-market affordability positioning, and genuine social mission create a defensible market position, though competition from well-funded players and maintaining quality at scale remain key challenges."

Provenance · what we know, and where it came from

Every field. Every source. No fakery.

Below is the actual provenance for PhysicsWallah's record in our database. Government filings (MCA / DPIIT) are the strongest tier. Press and dataset come next. Anything tagged "Model" is a VedAI inference and is labelled as such — never disguised as fact.

Corporate Identification Number (CIN)
U80900UP2020PTC129220
GovernmentMCA filing
Incorporation date
2020-06-06
GovernmentMCA filing
Company type
Private Limited
GovernmentMCA filing
Authorized capital
₹100,000,000
GovernmentMCA filing
Founded
2020
3rd PartyVerified dataset
Founders
Alakh Pandey, Prateek Maheshwari
3rd PartyVerified dataset
Headquarters
Noida
3rd PartyVerified dataset
Industry
Edtech
3rd PartyVerified dataset
Total funding raised
₹8,300,000,000
ModelLLM extracted from public news
Status
Unicorn (valued ≥ $1B)
3rd PartyPublic press / news
Description
Affordable test preparation platform.
3rd PartyVerified dataset
Data quality note
Revenue is listed as N/A and investor names are undisclosed, reducing data completeness to an estimated 55–60% range, which caps the maximum achievable score at approximately 820 and introduces confidence weighting reductions across P1-A and P2-C sub-dimensions.
Founders
Alakh Pandey
Founder & CEO

Experienced educator and online tutor specializing in Physics.

Prateek Maheshwari
Co-Founder & COO

Business strategist and educator with a focus on digital learning solutions.

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