Visa Crackdown and diplomatic tension prevents traditional studies and abroad, India Leverage Edu Helping students to rebuild their dreams – from Canada to Germany and India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. This agility is paying: Startup has doubled its revenue, has become profitable, and is now expanding its global footprint.
Over the last several months, students in emerging markets have faced increasing uncertainty around the entry of international college. To transfer visa rules and diplomatic tension – from 2023-2024 Deadlock between India and Canada New to new Straps in Indo-American relations Above Tariff And immigration policy – The deadline and eligibility of application for thousands has been interrupted. Countries like Canada and Australia have introduced Strict student visa policiesTo catch many families with guards. Even local advisors and firms have struggled to adapt for a long time. During this time, leverage -The teaching-abroad startup behind platform leverages Edu has responded by helping students to identify alternative destinations and to adjust quickly by keeping their plans on tracks, despite disruption.
The eight-year startup was in a hurry to respond when the India-Canada relations sour, helping Indian students re-prepare and recruit Canadian universities in recruiting Canadian universities, effectively incited pipelines in regions. It is now applying the same playbook among US-India strains.
While the leverage continues to send students to America, an increasing part of that demand now comes from countries like Brazil and Vietnam – where interest in American universities remains strong, founder and CEO Akshay Chaturvedi said in an interview.
The ability to quickly move to geographical regions is now central for the development strategy of leverage. In the last two months, the startup has been expanded in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Vietnam and Malaysia – seeking to study abroad with increasing numbers of students in emerging markets, but with limited access to structured entry support. With this push, leverage now operates in 16 countries where it recruits students, which helps them apply to universities in 11 destination countries.
Beyond the applications, a tech hub-a tech hub-on the outskirts of New Delhi, in the outskirts of New Delhi, is in position as a full-service platform for international education, helping students plan, finance and manage their travel. Its devices include a mobile app, an AI-Powered course search engine, a university matchmaking tool called Unicanne and a newly launched Saas suit for global universities under Brand University.
Startups have also expanded in near categories, with prasad like leverage MBB for medical aspirants under Leverage Edu, with fly finance for education loans, fly homes for students housing, and other services under leverage career and compass.
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Leverage now keeps more than 10,000 students more than 1,500 annually a few years ago. According to Chaturvedi, 60% of the student acquisition has increased mostly through an increase of 60% with zero customer acquisition costs requiring.
He said, “Our difference has compressed with most of our global contestants, which were either large listed companies or who had raised some of these mega rounds,” he told Techchchan.
Financially, Utanj has seen a sharp growth – and this year became beneficial for the first time, rarity in India’s Edtech region. The startup closed the fiscal year 2025 with more than 1.8 billion (about 20 million dollars) in revenue, which was twice the previous year (900 million (about $ 10 million) in the previous year. Between April and September, the first half of the financial year 2026 between April and September, it generated more than ₹ 2 billion (about $ 23 million), and the revenue in revenue is on track to end the fake year in revenue, which has generated more than ₹ 2 billion (about $ 23 million), which is on the track in revenue 3.7- ₹ 3.8 billion (about $ 45 million).
On the profitability front, Leverage availed the tax after tax (120–130 million (about $ 1.4–1.5 million)), and is expected to cross over 250 million ($ 2.8 million) by the end of the financial year 2026-Financial year 2025 marks 256% change from a full-year loss of 800 million.
Startup produces about 25% of its revenue from its platform businesses, which supports students beyond entry-including loans, money remedies, housing and internships or assistance with helping the first jobs. The remaining 75% revenue comes from its main education business – student placement and counseling services. Within this, about 20% of students come directly and 55% from universities, Chaturvedi told Techcrunch.
India is responsible for 58% of its total student Aadhaar, the largest source of leverage market. Within the country, the startup focuses on states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab – areas that continuously send a large number of students to universities abroad.
In terms of destinations, UK remains the largest market for leverages, which is 52% of student accounting for placements, followed by Germany 22%. Italy-Its fastest growing market is receiving traction in this summer.
North America currently represents less than 5% of the total placement for leverages, reflecting stringent visa rules and diplomatic headwinds in recent years. Startup hopes that this part will grow as its presence spreads to Latin America, Southeast Asia and Middle East.
India is likely to IPO schemes, 2026
With rising revenue and an extended global footprint, the startup is now weighing a potential IPO in India earlier next year, and investment bankers have already made early pitches, with the matter familiar with the matter told Tekkranch.
Founder and CEO Chaturvedi did not rule out the possibility of a public listing, but said that the leverage would take a decision between advancing an IPO or increasing the outer capital after hitting a $ 100 million revenue milestone, which the company expects to reach for some time in 2026.
So far, Leverage has increased equity by less than $ 50 million. The company operates in 27 countries through more than 50 offices and has a headcon of about 800 people.
