As visa crashes and diplomatic tensions block traditional research routes, India’s leverage EDU students help redirect their dreams from Canada to Germany and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. This agility pays off: The startup has doubled its income, reversed profitable and is now expanding its global footprint.
Over the past several months, students across new markets have faced growing uncertainty about international college recordings. Changing visa rules and diplomatic tension-from 2023-2024 standoff between India and Canada to new tribes in India-US ribbons over customs and immigration policy-have disturbed the timelines of the application and justification for thousands. Countries such as Canada and Australia have introduced stricter students visa policies and captured many families away. Even long -time local consultants and study companies have struggled to adapt. Meanwhile, the gearing starts behind the Study-ABRIAD platform Liverage EDU response by helping students identify alternative destinations and adjust quickly, keep their plans on track despite the disturbance.
The eight-year startup was quick to respond when the relations in India-Canada were tied, which helped Indian students redirect to Germany and help Canadian universities recruit from Nigeria-effectively save student pipelines in both regions. It now uses the same PlayBook in the middle of the ongoing US-India tribes.
While gearing continues to send students to the United States, a growing proportion of this demand is now coming from countries such as Brazil and Vietnam – where interest in US universities remains strong, founder and CEO Akshay Chatshay Chanvai said in an interview.
This ability to quickly switch over geographies is now central to Leverage’s growth strategy. In the last two months, start -up has been expanded to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Vietnam and Malaysia – new markets with an increasing number of students seeking to study abroad, but with limited access to structured admission support. With this push, leverage now operates in 16 countries where it is recruiting students, which helps them apply for universities in 11 destination countries.
In addition to applications, start-up-with headquarters in Noida, a technical hub on the outskirts of New Delhi-Sig Self Sig as a platform for full service for international education, helps students plan, finance and manage their travels. Its tools include a mobile app, an AI-driven course search engine, a university matchmaking tool called Uniconnect and a recently launched SaaS-suite for global universities under the Univalley brand.
Start -up has also been extended to adjacent categories with offers such as leverage MBBS for medical aspirants during Leverage EDU, as well as flight financing for educational loans, flying houses for student housing and other services during gearing careers and compass.
TechCrunch -event
San Francisco
|
27-29. October 2025
Leverage now places over 10,000 students annually, up from approx. 1,500 a few years ago. Much of this growth has come through the organic demand, where 60% of students’ acquisitions require zero customer purchase costs, according to CHATUREY.
“Our gap is narrowed with most of our global competitors who were either large listed companies or who had raised some of these mega rounds,” he told TechCrunch.
Economically, leverage has seen sharp growth – and became profitable for the first time this year, a rarity in India’s Edtech sector. The startup closed the 2025 financial year with over $ 1.8 billion (about $ 20 million) in revenue and doubled from the previous year’s $ 900 million (about $ 10 million). Between April and September, the first half of the 2026 financial year, it generated more than $ 2 billion (about $ 23 million) and is on the way to end the financial year with $ 3.7 $ 3.8 billion (about $ 45 million) in revenue.
On the profitability front, leverage received $ 120-130 million (about $ 1.4-1.5 million) in profit after tax and expects to surpass £ 250 million ($ 2.8 million) at the end of the financial year 2026-there marks a 256% turn from a full-year loss of $ 800 million in the 2025 financial year.
Start-up generates about 25% of its revenue from its platform companies that support students in addition to recordings-with value added services, including loans, money transfers, housing and help to secure internships or first jobs. The remaining 75% of the revenue comes from its core education business – student location and counseling services. Within this comes approx. 20% directly from students and 55% from universities in commissions, Chattervedi told TechCrunch.
India remains Levera’s largest source market and accounts for 58% of its total student’s base. In the country, start -ups focus on states such as Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab – regions that consistently send a large number of students to universities abroad.
With regard to destinations, the United Kingdom of Lever’s largest market remains and accounts for 52% of students’ locations, followed by Germany of 22%. Italy-the fastest growing market in summer winners also traction.
North America currently represents less than 5% of the total locations for leverage, reflecting tight visa rules and diplomatic headwinds in recent years. The start -up expects this proportion to grow when its presence is expanded over Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
India IPO in plans, probably for 2026
With rising revenue and an expanding global footprint, Start -up is now weighing a potential IPO in India already next year, and investment bankers have already made early seats, people who are familiar with the case told TechCrunch.
Founder and CEO CHATURDI did not deny the possibility of a public listing, but he said that leverage would decide between pursuing a stock exchange listing or raising external capital after hit a $ 100 million milestone that the company expects to reach once in 2026.
So far, Leverage has raised less than $ 50 million in equity. The company operates over 27 countries through over 50 offices and has an employee number of about 800 people.