Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday joined General Atlantic, Sequoia India and others for a fresh $110 million round of funding into one of India’s fastest growing education technology start-up Unacademy.This is the second investment by the social networking giant in India. Last year, Facebook made its first minority investment in a local startup called Meesho, a social-commerce venture empowering first-time entrepreneurs, especially women in small towns.”We thank General Atlantic and Facebook who have joined us in this journey and our existing investors who continue to be a part of the journey by supporting us. Our goal is to democratise education and become not just the largest educational organisation but the largest consumer Internet story out of India,” Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder and CEO, Unacademy, said in a statement.
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