Emversity raises $30 million to build India’s employability infrastructure across universities

Bengaluru | 15th January, 2026

• Emversity raised $30 million (₹271 crore) in Series A funding, led by Premji Invest, with participation from existing investors Z47 and Lightspeed.
• In under two years, the company has emerged as a category leader, supporting over 4,500 learners across 40 higher education campuses in the current academic year.
• Employer partners on the platform include Fortis Healthcare, Apollo Hospitals, Aster, KIMS, and hospitality leaders such as IHCL (Taj Hotels) and Lemon Tree Hotels.
• Capital will be deployed to scale the platform to up to 200 campuses, deepen leadership in healthcare and hospitality, and launch new skilling verticals including EPC and manufacturing.

Emversity, a higher-education embedded skilling and employability platform operated by Beyond Odds Technologies Pvt. Ltd., today announced the close of a $30 million (₹271 crore) Series A funding round led by Premji Invest, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed and Z47. With this round, the company’s total capital raised stands at $46 million.

Although India produces millions of graduates each year, very few graduate job-ready. Emversity was built to close this gap: not as a parallel education system, but as infrastructure embedded within universities themselves.

The company partners with higher education institutions to layer industry-aligned curriculum, hands-on training, simulation-based learning, internships, and placement support on top of formal degree programs. Universities retain full academic ownership; students graduate with real skills, real exposure, and real pathways into the workforce.

In under two years since inception, Emversity has scaled across 40 campuses and supports over 4,500 active learners in the ongoing academic year. The platform has built deep employer partnerships in sectors where workforce demand is both structural and sustained—most notably healthcare and hospitality, enabling a predictable pipeline from classroom to career.

The fresh capital will be invested with a long-term lens, focused on building durable workforce infrastructure:

• Expanding Emversity’s campus footprint to up to 200 campuses
• Strengthening category leadership in healthcare and hospitality skilling
• Launching new verticals including EPC and manufacturing

“India has added significant capacity in higher education over the past decade, but the alignment between education and employability has not kept pace with the needs of a rapidly changing economy. Universities have built academic scale and depth, while skill requirements across sectors have evolved far more quickly. Emversity was created to work alongside universities, adding industry relevance, applied training, and employer linkage where it is most needed.

This funding allows us to scale that model responsibly: strengthening proven sectors, extending it to new areas of workforce demand, and continuing to build a durable institution focused on employability outcomes. Our objective is to enable a capital-efficient education-to-employment platform that leverages existing university infrastructure and can operate at a global scale over the long term.” said Vivek Sinha, Emversity’s founder and CEO.

Rajat Agarwal, Managing Director at Z47 added “Emversity is building employability infrastructure in sectors that are critical to India’s long-term growth and capacity. The team has demonstrated consistency and resilience in a complex operating environment, and this round supports the next phase of scaling a durable, employment-led higher education platform. We believe Emversity is well positioned to strengthen employability outcomes in India, and we’re pleased to continue partnering with the team.”

Kaveesh Chawla, Partner at Premji Invest said “Our investment in Emversity reflects our strong conviction in the role of outcome-oriented education and skilling in driving long-term social and economic impact in India. As the need to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world employability grows, Emversity’s student-centric approach, focus on apprenticeships, and strong alignment with industry partners position it well to address this gap at scale.”

“Emversity is addressing a fundamental gap between education and employability in India by working within existing institutions rather than around them. Vivek and the team have built a disciplined, outcomes-led platform that aligns universities, employers, and learners over the long term. We believe this approach is well suited to building education-to-employment infrastructure at scale, and we’re pleased to continue supporting Emversity in its next phase.” added Harsha Kumar, Partner at Lightspeed.

Vivek joined Rajat and CV to discuss the future of employment on the Z47 Moments podcast.

We wish Vivek and the entire Emversity team the very best as they scale the next phase of this journey.

About Beyond Odds Technologies 
Beyond Odds Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an education-to-employment platform building long-term employability infrastructure for India’s workforce. Founded in 2023, the company operates across higher education, skilling, and talent outcomes, with a focus on large, under-served, and nation-building sectors.

Its flagship platform, Emversity, works with higher-education institutions and employers in an asset-light partnership to strengthen the link between academic learning and workforce readiness. By embedding industry-aligned curriculum, applied training, technology-enabled learning infrastructure, internships, and placement support into existing university programs, Emversity enables institutions to deliver more employable graduates at scale.

For more information, visit www.emversity.com.

About Z47 
Founded in 2006, Z47 is an investment Firm with more than 150 investments till date and an AUM of over $3.5 billion. Guided by a ‘founders first’ philosophy, Z47 is committed to backing missionary founders leading India to its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047, prioritizing founders over markets. 

Z47’s focus sectors include Financial Services, Consumer, B2B, Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise AI amongst others. We are proud partners to several Consumer companies; select ones include Country Delight, GoKwik, Mosaic Wellness, The Whole Truth, and Zupee Gaming. Other select investments include Dailyhunt, Five Star Business Finance, OfBusiness, Ola, Ola Electric, and Razorpay.

Z47 has offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurgaon and GIFT City.