# Skill-Lync

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/skill-lync

- Industry: Education/Training
- Headquarters: Chennai, India
- Website: www.skill-lync.com
- Total disclosed funding: $17M
- Latest round: Series B (Sep 8, 2022)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in Chennai, India, and co-founded by Suryanarayanan P (CEO) and Sarangarajan V (CTO) in 2015, EpowerX Learning Technologies Pvt Ltd. doing business as Skill-Lync operates as an education and training services company offering advanced engineering courses from various industry experts. In July 2021, the firm raised USD 17.3 million in series A funding led by investor Iron Pillar, with participation from other investors Better Capital and Y Combinator. The firm as of October 2023, has over 6k hours of learning with more than 300 companies leveraging its platform for hiring and upskilling including Satven, SEG Automotive, Tata Technologies, HCL, Bosch, etc.

The company focuses on bridging the gap between academia and industry by providing students with knowledge and practical skills that make them job-ready. Skill-Lynk also offers placement opportunities in companies across India. Their programs cater to various engineering domains, including Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Computer Science, Electronics, etc. The list of programs offered by the firm includes automotive designing, MedTech, Vehicle dynamics, CFD solver, post-graduation in electric vehicle design and development, introduction to MATLAB and Simulink, BIM, Subsurface exploration and geotechnical investigation, software development, data science, cybersecurity, telecom, etc. Additionally, the firm also offers offline programs like an accelerated career program in Embedded Systems (On-Campus) courseware partner: IT-ITes SSC Nasscom. Furthermore, the company offers executive programs like a 22-week live online program on C, and C++ programming, model-based development, functional Safety (FuSa), etc. as well as organizes workshops and corporate training.

## Funding rounds

- Series B, Sep 8, 2022 — Alumni Ventures Group
- Series A, Jul 22, 2021, $17M — Better Capital, Y Combinator, Iron Pillar

## Investors

- Better Capital — Series A
- Y Combinator (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/y-combinator) — Series A
- Iron Pillar (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/iron-pillar) — Series A
- Alumni Ventures Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/alumni-ventures-group) — Series B