An investor pulled out on the final day of a funding round, leaving Leverage Edu with what founder Akshay Chaturvedi describes as six days of cash. By the next morning he had won the round back. In this Inc42 conversation he traces how a simple career-advice app became a study-abroad platform offering education loans, forex and student housing, and now trains nurses in German and Japanese for European hospitals. He also explains how shifting US, Canadian and Australian policy pushed students toward Germany, Italy and France.
Leverage Edu survived six days of cash to build an edtech outlier
Founder Akshay Chaturvedi recounts how Leverage Edu won back a collapsed funding round and rebuilt itself around students heading abroad.
