Edtech startup SiglQ.ai has raised $9.5 million in a seed funding round co-led by The House Fund and GSV Ventures.
The round also saw participation from Duolingo, General Catalyst India (Venture Highway), Peak XV Partners, Calibrate Ventures, and several prominent angel investors including Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski.
Founded in 2023 by Karttikeya Mangalam and Kurt Keutzer, SiglQ.ai builds AI-powered tools aimed at delivering personalized learning experiences at scale.
The funding will help the company ramp up hiring, improve its AI capabilities, and scale its platforms globally.
After operating in stealth mode for 18 months, SiglQ.ai has launched two products—PadhAI and EverTutor.ai—focused on the higher education markets in India and the U.S. PadhAI is already gaining traction among UPSC aspirants, with over 200,000 users.
The company claims its AI tutor topped the UPSC 2024 Civil Services Exam rankings, outperforming more than 1.3 million human candidates and other AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.
EverTutor.ai, designed for GRE test prep, has attracted over 10,000 users in just three months. SiglQ.ai now plans to expand EverTutor’s reach during the upcoming GRE exam cycles and further scale its impact on learners.
“We are at a pivotal moment in education where modern GenAI can provide a personal 1:1 tutor to every student and reduce the cost of one-on-one learning from hundreds of dollars an hour to the cost of computation,” said co-founder Karttikeya Mangalam.
The company will also be showcasing its latest innovations at the ASU+GSV Summit, underscoring its vision to make AI-driven education more accessible across the globe.
