RiseUpp is an AI-powered marketplace for online degrees and certificates, making it easier for learners to find, compare, and enroll in programs from 1000s of universities, EdTechs, and corporates—all in one place.
Our platform centralizes all courses, providing easy filters, structured comparisons, verified reviews, expert career counseling, exclusive scholarships, and zero-interest EMIs. This allows learners to save time, reduce complexity, minimize risk, and save money.
With RiseUpp, learners make smarter, career-aligned enrollment decisions with confidence, ensuring better education choices and real career outcomes.
Startup Description
RiseUpp.com is India's No.1 AI-powered marketplace for online degrees and certificates, solving course discovery and enrollment challenges in India’s $3B+ online higher education market, expected to grow to $11B by 2030. Founded by IIT & IIM alumni, it is backed by the Nvidia Inception Program and Founder Institute USA.
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Business Model
RiseUpp operates on a commission-based revenue model, with revenue-sharing agreements with universities, EdTech platforms, and companies for every successful enrollment. As India’s leading AI-powered marketplace for online degrees and certificates, we connect high-intent learners with the right programs, ensuring higher conversion rates, measurable ROI, and scalable revenue growth for our partners.
Customers
based in
India
Business
Modal Type
Marketplace
Type of
Sales
B2C
Competitors
RiseUpp operates in a unique AI-powered marketplace for online degrees and certificates, but potential competitors include UpGrad and Coursera, which primarily act as course providers rather than marketplaces; College Vidya, which focuses on lead generation but lacks AI-driven insights and comprehensive partnerships; and Shiksha and Collegedunia, which function as legacy education platforms without AI-driven career guidance. However, RiseUpp stands apart with a true AI-powered, comparison-first, and placement-driven model, offering structured course discovery, verified reviews, financial flexibility, and career support—all in one seamless platform.
Teams
Hari Rastogi
CoFounder and CEO
PusparajMohapatra
Co-Founder & CTO
Tell us a bit about how founding team knows
each other.
The founders have known each other for a long time, working in Bangalore’s IT sector. They connected through common friends and bonded over their shared passion for technology, education, and solving real-world problems.
Why did you decide to start this
company?
Both founders, while in corporate roles, enrolled in online courses for continuous learning and realized course discovery and enrollment were broken. They set out to solve this with RiseUpp.
Are all the founders full-time on this
project?
Yes
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