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  • IntelliPaat: Massive online open corporate IT courses sees skyrocketed growth

    Published on August 21, 2020

    Intellipaat was launched in June 2011 by Diwakar Chittora and Shilpi Jain to fulfill the growing demand for affordable training in emerging technologies. The meteoric growth of the company forced them to quit their jobs in 2013 and dedicate all hours to the rapidly growing platform. Currently, Diwakar Chittora is the CEO and Shilpi Jain is COO.

    Intellipaat is an eLearning platform for emergent technologies like Big Data, Data Science, Hadoop, Apache, Salesforce etc. In 2011, Diwakar Chittora and Shilpi Jain, both IT professionals, were looking to update their knowledge on Big Data and Hadoop, two of the latest technologies that were disrupting the world. They struggled to find the right training institute and when they did, the course was cost prohibitive. Realizing other IT professionals were struggling too, and knowing how critical it is for IT professionals to keep up with emergent technologies, they launched their own training company Intellipaat, with the objective of providing high-end technology training at affordable prices.

    Intellipaat operates both in B2C & B2B space with more than 6,00,000 professionals learning across 53+ countries and more than 200+ corporates using Intellipaat for upskilling their employees.  Intellipaat comes in likes of companies like Nasdaq, Ericsson, Society General, Sony,etc. The company has been growing at an impressive rate of 100% every year. It has a powerful presence on social media. The company’s YouTube channel is subscribed by over 4.5 lakh learners. Intellipaat is the only e-learning company in the world to offer such a wide array of courses and professional services.

    The company’s founders believe that a quality education should not cost crores. Driven by this belief, they created a platform where engineers and scientists working in leading companies teach professionals for a nominal price. Intellipaat was launched with a vision to provide high-end, quality education at a nominal price to professionals across the world. Today the company creates new courses in collaboration with leading technology players like Microsoft and IBM. Recently Intellipaat partnered with IIT Guwahati’s E&ICT Academy by creating a nine-month, post graduate program to be taught at the academy. This course provides academic rigor and exposure to skills demanded by industry.     

    They started with one client but soon had a flood of corporate tie-ups with the biggest names in business. Intellipaat is an e-learning and professional certification company for software developers, IT administrators, and other professionals, headquartered in Bangalore, India. The training is offered in three major modes: Online instructor Led Trainings, Self-paced e-learning trainings, and Corporate Trainings. The company offers more than 150 courses on skills like Big Data, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Mobile Development, Databases, Analytics, and Cloud Computing.

    Unlike its well funded competitors that are incurring losses, Intellipaat is a bootstrapped company that is growing at a rate of 100% every year and earning attractive margins. Intellipaat’s courses are meant for working professionals with at least one year of work experience. Those who enroll with Intellipaat work in positions as senior as CXO. Such professionals enroll with Intellipaat to master technologies that are in the greatest demand by industry. Intellipaat’s courses are meticulously designed to give students hands on exposure. Approximately 80% to 90% of its courses impart practical skills. Students learn about technologies through case studies, assignments, and project work.   

    Intellipaat trainers are subject matter experts with a minimum of +8yrs Industry experience. All courses provide in-depth subject knowledge. To ensure high industry exposure the curriculum is designed to provide 80% practical knowledge in the form of hands-on exercises, project work, assignments and quiz with every course. Intellipaat also has more than 500 corporates that are hiring learners on their platform and they help learners with resume preparation, mock interviews and marketing their profiles.

    Recently, the company launched Intellipaat Academy, a platform that gives students access to free courses. These courses are designed for professionals who are in the early stage of their careers. The platform is useful to those who want to quickly master new technologies.

    Vision

    Intellipaat’s vision is to democratize quality education by making it accessible to all.

    Mission   

    The company’s mission is to have students enroll from smaller tier 2 and tier 3 cites and to take a deeper dive in overseas markets.

    USPs

    • Intellipaat is a one stop training solution provider
    • Courses are designed after through research and consultation with hiring managers.
    • 90% of each course provides practical exposure.
    • Every course is taught by subject matter experts who have at least 8 years experience.
    • At the end of each course, students participate in a challenging capstone project that requires them to apply their skill to real-world, open-ended problems.
    • Students interview skills are honed during mock interviews
    • Intellipaat markets students resumes
    • Students have access to Intelipaat’s job portal where top companies recruit
    • A dedicated learning manager
    • 24X7 technology support

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