S Chand and Company is an education content provider and publisher whose offerings are primarily textbooks and related print materials. The company reported this year's revenue at $100 million, with 95% of revenue from print and 5% from digital services. S Chand aims to grow print at a CAGR of 18–20% in the coming years while increasing digital services to 25% of revenue within five years. It plans rapid expansion into non-infrastructure education by augmenting textbooks with multimedia and digital delivery, and is pursuing aggressive acquisitions of regional publishers. The company has previously bought Vikas Publishing House and Madhuban Educational Books for $20–25 million, will complete a buyout of Saraswati Publishing House this year, and recently invested $200,000 in edtech startup Smartivity Labs.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2015