The Business Bytes
PRIYABRAT BISWAL
BHUBANESWAR, JULY 14, 2021
Arvind Mafatlal Group-led school supply chain platform Uniform Junction has partnered with Israel’s learning analytics solution provider x10ed; and plans to invest $1 million in international partnerships to strengthen its positioning in the school-tech solutions space globally.
The association will enable Uniform Junction bring x10ed’s best in class data science methodologies empowering schools map the content to a set of abstract learning outcomes such as cognitive skills, social skills, creativity and more.
Speaking on the partnership between Uniform Junction and x10ed, Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to India, Rony Yedidia Clein, said: “Israel has been a start-up nation for a couple of decades now. India is a great friend and we have a growing partnership with India. x10ed… is one of the representatives of Israeli edtech which is the leader of the start-up nation. We see edtech as an important part of what we do in general to reach new heights which is possible with technology today.”
Stating that technology is something important to everyone and it is important for every country to reach newer heights and help themselves become better citizens, better employees, better workers, better founders, Clein said, “x10ed will bring education technology through Uniform Junction to India; and help Indian students to become better citizens of the world and improve the world through technology. The tie up will help Israeli company to become part of the Indian eco system and Indian company to become part of the Israeli eco-system.”
Priyavrata Mafatlal, Co-Founder & Director, Uniform Junction and MD & CEO, Mafatlal Industries said that the demand for K 12 education technology is at an inflection point.
“Our partnership strategy will hence focus on bringing in diverse and holistic learning solutions to schools. We are glad that our first partnership is from the world’s edtech hub Israel, and x10ed’s solutions will help schools address learning from the core,” he added.
Uniform Junction plans to have 1,500 courses on the platform by the end of September; through its solutions, it aims to empower 50,000 schools,” informed Gagan Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Uniform Junction. The venture has over 300 courses live on its platform at present, he added.
Gil Almog, Founder & CEO, x10ed said that Israel has hundreds of unique EdTech solutions that are a perfect fit for adoption to the Indian education market.
“This partnership will be the first step in long-term knowledge-sharing cooperation aimed to create impact, bring the best of education to the children and prepare children for a highly dynamic and technological future,” he added.
