Chiratae Ventures leads $3 million financing round in Artium Academy
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MUMBAI: Artium Academy , online music learning and community platform that powers tech-led, performance-based learning and engagement has raised $3 million from Chiratae Ventures , amongst the earliest tech-focused venture capital firms in the Indian ecosystemOther early-stage investors like Anicut Capital, Jet Synthesis and Whiteboard Capital as well as several high-profile entrepreneurs like Madhusudhan R (Co-founder, M2P Finance), Priyamvada Balaji (Executive Director Lucas Indian Service), Varun Alagh (Co-founder, Mamaearth ), Piyush Shah (Co-Founder, InMobi Group ), Vikas Dosala (Co-founder, Fraazo) have also participated in this round of funding for Artium Academy.Co-founded by Ashish Joshi, Vivek Raicha and Nithya Sudhir, Artium Academy offers music education using modern pedagogy combined with technology to deliver elevated learning and performing experience to learners.Our vision is to make music learning more relevant, participative, and engaging where a user can take the journey of a learner to a performer to a potential influencer with our music tech platform. We are building AI based assessment and prescription tools to aide efficient learning and performing, thereby offering qualitative pedagogy to the learners globally, stated Ashish Joshi, founder and CEO, Artium Academy.Chirataes Consumer Tech report talks about passion creators, and we see a significant opportunity in the passion, extracurricular learning space. Artiums depth of pedagogy combined with tech-first approach to build a scalable learning and performance platform stands out from other extracurricular horizontal platforms, commented, Anoop N Menon, Principal and Consumer Tech-lead of Chiratae Ventures.This capital will help us accelerate our plans to develop new offerings and expand into newer markets, especially to the diaspora population outside of India. It will also allow us to invest in product and content led organic channels for learner acquisition, stated, Vivek Raicha, co-founder, Artium Academy.Artium offers music lessons and courses online. Indias leading voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan has joined as Chief of Pedagogy of the Academy.Artiums AI enabled practice studio supplements in-person learning and tracks improvement followed by regular online performances within the Artium community of learners, teachers and maestros that makes the learner feel like a star.Artium recently tied up with Warner Music India and Global Music Junction (GMJ) to create original music content with its maestros, teachers, and learners under its brand Artium Originals.