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EDUCLO is a Unified Digital Platform with enterprise planning software and a marketplace for the education sector.
EDUCLO is the world's first education technology platform with an Enterprise Resource Planning and Marketplace for the education sector connecting students and accredited higher education and professional education organizations. EDUCLO’s vision is to enhance the quality of education and accelerate gross enrollment in education industries.
EDUCLO is a Social Innovation for digital transformation in the education sector
A social-cultural problem is almost impossible to solve and needs extraordinary effort to perform the mammoth tasks due to its scale, magnitude and the complexity of change required. Sustainable quality in education and gross enrollment in higher education are wicked problems in emerging economies.
EDUCLO's unified digital platform was built to create a sustainable education through digital platforms to manage enterprise operations and academic operations digitally. A seamless accessibility and digital scalability gives the universities and colleges the edge to access the economies of scale resulting in the acceleration of the gross enrolment ratio. Though emerging economies have been significantly promoting open and distance education bodies, the quality of education, effective administration, and adoption acceleration have been questionable.
EDUCLO is a product built as a digital hub to automate the operations of all the departments in the education sector and helps in automating reporting for the National Accreditation Council and National Accreditation Board. The product pricing is been made affordable to meet the emerging market pricing needs. With EDUCLO products enterprises can enablement of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Virtual Labs, the platform is set for the path to continuously innovate throughout the EdTech industry revolution. EDUCLO company‘s vision is to enhance the values of quality education through technology and software development that suits the emerging market requirements and significantly contributes to macroeconomic policies to eliminate poverty by accelerating gross enrollment and access to quality education.
Target Market
EDUCLO is focused on the education sector. The initial version is launched to the emerging markets for higher education and the professional education industries. EDUCLO digital platform is a prebuilt enterprise digital platform meeting the National Accreditation Council and National Accreditation Board data requirements. EDUCLO is a default choice to the higher education industry due to its comprehensive platform and ready to suit the regulatory reporting requirements. To start with, EDUCLO is targeting the Indian higher education industry market. The business-to-business model target customers are public and private education universities, including deemed universities and colleges in India. The target customers for a business-to-customer business model are the learners looking to enrol to access education. Our business model is set up with fair pricing for emerging markets and brings awareness with a positioning strategy to leverage into emerging markets such as India. For successful marketing, our strategy is to strengthen EDUCLO’s digital transformation consulting practice by educating the prospects, establishing a conversion strategy, and enabling Joint ventures and partnerships. Based on publicly available survey data from Global Industry, analysts project the market for digital learning will reach $ 243.8 billion by 2022, and it is growing annually.
There are 1084 universities and 42,343 colleges in India. There are 1.61 million higher education teachers. These enterprises are facing several challenges such as access to equity, quality of education, funding, faculty shortage, employability, research and innovation. EDUCLO platform is built to be the technology partner and the default digital platform to digitize enterprises and help them enterprise accelerate gross enrollment and enhance the quality of education. EDUCLO is aiming to be the market leader in the education sector through growing and scaling in emerging markets to start with. EDUCLO set to launch in the developed markets in stage two, after customising to respective country's education sector and further suited to the respective industry’s regulator specifications.
Marketing and Sales
EDUCLO introduced a dynamic dual pricing approach. Firstly the enterprise monthly licensing fee for ERP software. Secondly, a flat fee for the program, with 9% of educators' sales on the e-commerce marketplace. EDUCLO's business-to-business marketing efforts will initially focus on promoting to the enterprise education partners by the direct sales force. Professional relations activities and personal selling approaches will be followed to reach decision-makers at the enterprise partners. The campaigns and digital marketing ads will prompt enterprise partners to reach the company enabling the potential inbound customers reaching. The demand is generated, and the enterprise partners will be pulled.
Milestones and Traction
The evolution of the concept EDUCLO platform emerged from the need and necessity to access quality education to users anywhere in the world with an Internet connection on their devices. With sheer interest, passion and knowledge in the training and assessment education industry to make the vision a reality, our startup team put through expertise and experience in e-commerce, ERP, Cloud computing, Big Data and Analytics to develop the product EDUCLO.
EDUCLO launched its alpha product at Surge Summit 2016, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Peter Cosgrove, Founder of Surge 2016 with Srini Prasad. M, Founder of EDUCLO Group.
EDUCLO signed a partnership MOU with JNTU, Anantapur and Sri Krishnadevaraya Universities in Feb 2017 at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Digital platform access to 170,000 users and over 250 affiliated institutions from 2 universities.
Prof. S. Krishnaiah, Registrar, JNTUA & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group signed the MOU along with Prof. Mohammed M.M. Sarcar, Vice Chancellor and Honorable members of the senate at JNTU Anantapur University.
Prof. M. V. Lakshmaiah, Registrar, S.K. University & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group Sign the MOU along with Prof.K. Rajagopal, Vice Chancellor and Honorable members of the senate at Sri Krishnadevaraya University.
Honourable Marise Payne, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group appraised the development of EDUCLO and its use for QUAD nations to enhance the quality of education in Higher Ed in Nov 2018.
Honourable Anantkumar Hegde, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group appraised the development of EDUCLO and its use for QUAD nations to enhance the quality of education in Higher Ed in Nov 2018.
Honourable Jim Verghese, Chairman for Australia India Business Council & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group appraised the development of EDUCLO and its use for QUAD nations to enhance the quality of education in Higher Ed.
Prof. S. Krishnaiah, Registrar, JNTUA & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group along with Prof. Srinivas Kumar, Vice Chancellor, JNTU Anantapur. Presented digital transformation strategy to enhance gross enrolment ratio in Dec 2019.
Prof. S. Srinivas Kumar, Dr, B. Lakshmikantham I.A.S (Retd) & M. Srini Prasad launched the EDUCLO Product Beta version at Tech Vice Chancellor’s Conclave Feb 2020.
EDUCLO Product is shortlisted for EXPO2020 - Global Best Practice Programme for Global Sustainable Development Goals – Quality of Education.
EDUCLO Product is shortlisted for the FTxSDG Challenge and become part of Seedstars and FT Talent Portfolio in 2021.
Honourable Julian Leeser, M.P, Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians. & M. Srini Prasad, Founder of EDUCLO Group appraised the development of EDUCLO and its use for QUAD nations to enhance the quality of education in Higher Ed at AIYD 2022 Launch event.
EDUCLO's fully functional digital hub will be launched to emerging markets in Aug 2024
EDUCLO is currently being launched in emerging markets. EDUCLO is at a Series A investment stage. If you are a successful entrepreneur or an investor and are interested in working together on the EDUCLO project, please write to us at [email protected] with a brief about you and your interest. We contact you to further know about you and initiate due diligence for partnership.
About the Founder
EDUCLO was founded in 2016 by Mr. Srinivasa Prasad Muddalapuram.Srini is a qualified social innovation entrepreneur with a tier 1 MBA (Leadership) from Central Queensland University in Australia. Srini’s key skills include contemporary leadership, leadership communication, global economics, business legal frameworks, business leadership strategy and being a keynote speaker at international conferences. Srini comes with 21 years of experience in technology management and leadership roles and managed large enterprise technology transformation projects by bringing new-age digital ERP technology solutions. In his experience, Srini worked on operational and digital transformation projects with HSBC Corporate Investment Banking and Markets, JP Morgan Chase, Dassault Systems, Continental Corporation, Geometric Ltd and Inter Globe Technologies in his consulting career before he moved into the education industry as a Lecturer / Trainer and Assessor.
In his teaching career, he has worked with some of Australia’s largest professional education providers such as Next Ed Group, Australia Learning Group and the Australian College of Business Intelligence. Srini trained over 5000 students in Leadership, Management, Business and Enterprise Resource Planning in professional education and higher education industries. Srini’s father Sri Neelakanta Muddalapuram is an Indian politician who was honoured to be the Chairman of the Market Committee, Guntakal, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. He has worked closely with Honorable Nara Chandra Babu Naidu who was instrumental in establishing the IT industry in Andhra Pradesh State of India. Srini has walked in his father’s food steps to work towards the welfare of society, hence he pursued the path to establish EDUCLO as a social innovation to meet the global sustainable development goal of enhancing the quality of education through EDUCLO's unified digital platform.
Srinivasa Prasad Muddalapuram, Founder, EDUCLO Group.