LEAD School
- 🦄Became a unicorn2022
- 📈Peak valuation$1.1 Billion ’22
- 💔Became a Unitard2024
- 💸Last valuation~$737M
The rise & fall
5 moments · 2012–2024The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.
💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.
How it happened
LEAD (formerly LEAD School) is an Indian edtech company that sells an integrated curriculum, teaching system and software to low- and mid-fee private K-12 schools. Backed by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures, it hit a $1.1B unicorn valuation in January 2022.
As pandemic-era edtech enthusiasm faded and funding dried up, its valuation slipped to roughly $740M and it left the unicorn lists in early 2024, though it has since narrowed losses and steadied its core schools business.
Source: TechCrunch / OfficeChai / ION Analytics (school-focused edtech selling an integrated curriculum-and-software system to K-12 schools; reached a $1.1B unicorn valuation in a Jan 2022 Series E led by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures; the edtech correction cut its valuation to about $740M, and it was removed from unicorn lists in January 2024)
Founders
Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-19. See our methodology.
Disclosed investors (8)
Historical funding participation; lists may be incomplete and do not establish current ownership or investor losses.
* Lead in a funding round · Crunchbase ↗ · 2026-10-13 · Methodology · Leaderboard
