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How did Indian VCs get their edtech hypothesis so wrong?

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Note: Over the past two decades, venture capital firms of all varieties have sold the India story to a whole host of institutional investors across the world. Several sectors have been packaged together, from e-commerce and education to real-money gaming, classifieds and short video, to create this powerful idea that a market of a billion Indians is ripe for consumption, technology disruption and wealth creation. Where pouring VC funds can fast-track the growth of ideas and companies that have the potential to disrupt the status quo, and build wealth for all concerned in the process. Looked at over a decade, which is also the life cycle of a typical venture fund, it would seem that Indian VC investors have oversold India to global limited partners. The reasons are many—and complex. But the underlying theme is that the India opportunity isn’t what it looks like on the surface. And one by one, business areas once celebrated for wealth creation and disruption have wilted away, leaving us

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