Byju’s acquires Austria’s GeoGebra

The acquisition will help the homegrown edtech company - which has 115 million students on its learning platform - integrate GeoGebra’s capabilities to enable the creation of new product offerings and learning formats to its existing mathematics portfolio, a statement said.

The company, however, did not disclose the value of the deal. This acquisition complements Byju’s overall product strategy, and furthers Byju’s aim to make math more engaging, leading to better learning outcomes, it said.

GeoGebra - which has a dynamic, interactive, and collaborative mathematics learning tool - will continue to operate as an independent unit within the Byju group under the leadership of its founder and developer Markus Hohenwarter. ‘’The GeoGebra team has built a powerful and stimulating platform that complements Byju’s mission of providing impactful learning for students. Designed to improve mathematical understanding, it offers significant features that provide interactive resources that adapt to every child’s style and pace of learning,’’ Byju’s Chief Strategy Officer Anita Kishore said.

Kishore added with GeoGebra on board, the company will ‘’continue to further enhance, reimagine and transform the way Math is taught and learned’’. ‘’Together with our combined strengths, we will have a wider reach and the best resources to build innovative and exciting next-generation learning formats,” she said. GeoGebra has a community of over 100 million learners across over 195 countries, brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics, and calculus in one easy-to-use format. The curriculum is available in multiple languages for students around the world.

Launched in 2015, Byju’s has over 115 mn students cumulatively learning from the app and 7 mn annual paid subscriptions. In September, Byju’s had announced the acquisition of K-12 creative coding platform, Tynker for an undisclosed amount. 

In July, Byju’s had acquired US-based digital reading platform Epic for $500 million (around Rs 3,729.8 crore) and had announced an additional $1 billion (about Rs 7,459.7 crore) investment over the next three years in the North American market to expand its operations there.

Flush with funds, Byju’s has been on an acquisition spree, buying Aakash Educational Services for about $1 bn to bolster its presence in the test preparation segment in April this year. In July, it acquired Singapore-based Great Learning for $600 mn (about Rs 4,466 cr), and announced an investment of an additional $400 million to strengthen its position in the professional and higher education segment. Post that, it acquired Epic. 

Previously, Byju had acquired TutorVista and Edurite (from Pearson in 2017), Osmo (2019), and the coding training platform WhiteHat Jr for $300 million last year.