DIY

Founded as Kyt in 2020 by Bhavik Rathod (the former head of Uber Eats India) and his wife Tripti Ahuja in Singapore, the platform offers online extracurricular courses for children aged 5-15, such as yoga, chess, music, dance, public speaking, and creative writing. Kyt Academy offers private and small group online classes with a 1:1 or 1:4 teacher-to-student ratio. Kyt Workshop provides short-duration courses to children who want to try multiple classes and explore different activities. As of November 2020, more than 1,000 students had taken a course or attended a workshop on the Kyt platform; and the platform had more than 20 teachers with plans to increase to 500 teachers over 2021.

Kyt rebranded under the name DIY in May 2021 following its acquisition of DIY.org in February. Founded in 2020 by Zach Klein, DIY.org is an online learning platform that provides more than 35 courses, 3,500 projects, and challenges across over 160 skills on topics such as science, animation, gaming, coding, engineering, and arts and crafts to over 700,000 families registered on the platform. The platform also adds around two courses every week. The acquisition will support the marketing of DIY’s online platform and expansion of its product; the merged entity will operate across 80+ countries and Klein will join the board as an advisor and mentor.

In January 2021, Kyt raised USD 5 million in Series A funding for further product and technology development, to expand beyond its home markets of India, Singapore, and the UAE, and enter the Australian, Canadian, US, and UK markets. Previously, in November 2020, the company raised USD 2.5 million in seed funding.