New Delhi, Oct 6 (INB) Nineteen-year-old entrepreneur Vedant Kumar has reported a Rs 15 crore all-cash sale of Dublieu, a platform he started at 15 to help students find extracurricular opportunities. Kumar founded Dublieu in 2023 after struggling to find reliable information about competitions, programmes and other activities that could help students build experience beyond classroom studies.
The idea came to him while he was studying in Class 10 at St Columbus School in New Delhi. He said he initially created the platform to solve a problem he was facing himself. “I didn’t start Dublieu with a grand vision; I started it because I wanted to study abroad and desperately needed a good portfolio,” Kumar, founder of Dublieu, said. He said that after spending months searching for suitable extracurricular opportunities online, he decided to create a single platform where students could discover such opportunities more easily.
According to information shared by Dublieu, the platform went on to attract more than 1 lakh registered students and received over four million views through unpaid online reach. It also recorded around 20,000 visitors a day on average. Over three years, Dublieu built a student team of more than 1,500 teenagers across India and organised events in different parts of the country. It also worked with college societies, including those at IITs, on events such as Model United Nations programmes. The platform also partnered with around 200 educational institutions and collaborated on youth programmes with NCERT and organisations affiliated with the United Nations, according to Dublieu.
By the time Kumar joined Hindu College, University of Delhi, discussions for the sale of the company had already begun, the company said. Under the reported deal, the organisation acquiring Dublieu will take over its technology, student information and network of schools. Kumar will leave his day-to-day role after the deal is completed. Kumar now plans to leave college and work full-time on his next project, an artificial intelligence startup that he is developing privately. He is also exploring the possibility of investing in other young startups. Kumar’s journey began at the age of 13, when he started working on his first project. Coming from a family of doctors and professors rather than businesspeople, he said his experience taught him that a personal problem can sometimes lead to a solution that benefits many others. The reported Dublieu deal marks a notable milestone for a young entrepreneur who began building the platform from his bedroom and without outside investment, according to the company.
