Zishaan Hayath

Zishaan Hayath

CEO and Co-founder

TOPPR TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.

Zishaan Hayath graduated from IIT Bombay in 2005 with a graduate degree in Civil Engineering. He started his career with FMCG major ITC and later worked with consulting firm Opera Solutions. In 2008, Zishaan founded a phone commerce marketplace Chaupaati.com, which was later acquired by Indian retail giant Future Group. In 2013, Zishaan founded Toppr.com, a complete learning app for classes 5th to 12th. Toppr is replacing the traditional after-school coaching and tuitions in India with high-quality live classes, machine-learning powered adaptive practice and instant chat with tutors for Q&A. With Toppr, he aims to make learning personalised for the 350 million students in India. 10 million students use Toppr to supplement their school learning and learn better every day.

Tuesday, March 31st

2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Harbor Ballroom A, Harbor Tower, 2nd Level
Live Stream

This panel will explore the challenges of scaling edtech businesses in India – defining target markets, pricing and unit economics, marketing, and private-public partnerships.

Kami Viswanathan, Mohan Lakhamraju, Zishaan Hayath, Venkat Srinivasan, Aakash Chaudhry