Sikhami · Investor Deck · Seed 2026

Sikhami in one paragraph.

Sikhami is building the social network for students. Students learn together through daily quizzes, subject clubs, shared notes and meetups, and institutes and coaches come to where the students already are. The app is live on Google Play with 10,000+ installs and a 4.2★ rating, starting with India’s government-exam aspirants, one of the largest and most under-served student groups in the world. From that base the network opens to every student in India, then to students worldwide, and adds an e-learning layer so that anyone can learn anything, socially, in one place. We are raising a $1M seed round for 10% equity to take the product from a working app to a national community and a revenue-generating marketplace within 18 months.

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Vision

The social network for students.
Starting in India. Built for the world.

Students learn together on Sikhami. Institutes and coaches come to where the students already are. Over time, everything a student needs to learn anything lives in one social place.

$1M
Seed round, USD
10%
Equity offered · $10M pre-money
10K+
Installs on Google Play · 4.2★ rating
TODAYIndia’s exam aspirants NEXTevery student in India THENstudents worldwide Institutes and coaches E-learning layer layered on every ring one network, growing outward
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Problem

Exam prep is broken. Aspirants are alone.

ONE ASPIRANT Notes · Telegram Lectures · YouTube Doubts · WhatsApp Mocks · 5 apps Coaching · offline Peers · none
Six tools, zero community. Every existing app sells content. Nobody is building the network.
3 Million+
SSC aspirants apply every year. Most are studying alone.
01

Scattered everywhere

Notes, lectures, doubts and mocks live in five different places.

02

Isolating by design

No peers, no accountability, no celebration during the longest phase of prep.

03

Disconnected from supply

Tier-2/3 institutes cannot reach the right aspirants, and aspirants cannot find the right coach.

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Product

One app. Eight ways to learn together. Live today.

Social-first. Content emerges from the community, not pushed by a publisher.

10K+
installs on Google Play
4.2★
average Play Store rating
8
features in production
0
ads, ever · free forever

Built solo. Bootstrapped. Production-grade Android stack (Firebase, Sentry, ProGuard). iOS planned post-raise.

PLAY STORE RATING 4.2 / 5 public listing INSTALLS · PAID ACQUISITION 10,000+ installs ₹0 spent on ads

Quizzes

Daily practice, live 1v1 battles

Clubs

Topic-based study communities

Meetups

Online and offline sessions

Notes

Topper notes, shared and discoverable

Posts

The aspirant social feed

Polls

Strategy votes, peer signals

Audios

Concept clips, current affairs

Clips

Short-form video lessons

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Market

A massive, fast-growing, underserved market.

$35B$23B$12B$0 $7.2B$17.8B$3.6B$33.3B 2025203420252034 India coaching · 10.3% CAGRIndia ed-tech · 28% CAGR
Market size in USD. Sources as cited in the company’s seed materials.
30M+
Government-exam aspirants in India every year (SSC, UPSC, Banking, Railways). Our starting point.
1.5B+
Students worldwide (UNESCO). The long-term network Sikhami is built for.
TAM$33BIndia ed-tech, 2034 SAM$8BGovt-exam prep SOM$120M
SOM is a five-year realistic capture, about 1.5% of SAM.
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Business model

Learners come for the network. Institutes pay to reach them.

Aspirants

Free forever. Notes, quizzes, clubs, meetups. Browse and enrol in paid courses.

Demand
→attention

Sikhami

The social layer and the marketplace. Matches aspirants to courses by exam and geography.

15–20% commission
←courses

Institutes

List courses, mocks and branded clubs. Pay only on enrolment.

Supply
Illustrative unit economics · assumptions, not actuals
₹4,500
average course price
17.5%
blended commission
₹790
revenue per enrolment
2.5%
MAU to enrolment (target)
₹20
revenue per MAU per month
100 monthly active usersfree, on the social app 2.5 enrol in a paid course2.5% conversion target ₹4,500 × 17.5% = ₹790 each ₹20 per MAU per month Bar widths are illustrative; the numbers are the assumptions above.
₹4,500 per course Sikhami · ₹790 (17.5%) blended commission, paid only on enrolment Institute · ₹3,710 (82.5%) no listing fee, no inventory risk for Sikhami
Month 0Month 12Year 2Year 3Year 4 Marketplace commission15–20% on every course sold Premium student tiermock packs, mentors E-learning platformcourses, certificates Revenue layers stack; the free student network stays free.
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Go-to-market and roadmap

From free notes to a national community in 18 months. Then the world.

A three-phase wedge funded by this round, and the horizon it opens.

PHASE 1 · MONTHS 0–6
Wedge
Free notes for aspirants
  • Seed the app with high-quality notes
  • SEO, YouTube and Telegram referrals
  • Target: 100K installs · 25K MAU · D30 25%
PHASE 2 · MONTHS 6–12
Community
Activate clubs, meetups, quiz battles
  • Topic clubs, daily quizzes, live study rooms
  • Creator program for topper aspirants · iOS launch
  • Target: 500K installs · 150K MAU · 40-minute sessions
PHASE 3 · MONTHS 12–18
Marketplace
Onboard institutes and monetise
  • Sign 1,000 tuition centres across tier-2/3 India
  • 15–20% commission on every course sold
  • Target: 1M installs · ₹2 Cr ARR · Series A-ready
HORIZON · 2027 AND BEYOND
Worldwide
Every student, everything to learn
  • Open beyond exams: school, college, skills
  • Institutes and coaches in every category
  • Sikhami e-learning layer: courses, mentors, certificates
  • Expand beyond India, English-first markets first
1M667K333K0 100K500K1M Month 6Month 12Month 18 INSTALL TARGETS
150K100K50K0 25K150K Month 6Month 12 MONTHLY ACTIVE USER TARGETS · D30 RETENTION 25%
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Competition

We are not selling courses. We are building the network.

CONTENT-LED
COMMUNITY-LED
TOP-DOWN
BOTTOM-UP
PhysicsWallah
Testbook
Unacademy
Adda247
YouTube channels
Discord servers
Telegram groups
SIKHAMI
WHY WE WIN
  • Network effects beat a content moat
  • Free notes wedge, near-zero CAC
  • Marketplace, not publisher: no inventory risk
  • Tier-2/3 first, ignored by incumbents
  • Social-first DNA from day one
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Team

Built solo. Ready to build the team.

S
Saurabh Khatri
Founder and CEO
  • Built every line of Sikhami, solo
  • Android, web, backend, AI, content engine
  • Bootstrapped to launch (under $1K spent)
  • Founder-aspirant: lived the exam journey
FIRST HIRES · POST RAISE
CTO / Co-founder
scale Android and backend
Head of Growth
performance and organic
Head of Content
creator program
BD Lead, Institutes
tier-2/3 sales
Senior iOS Engineer
ship iOS
Community Manager
moderation and ops
TEAM SIZE Today 1 · founder, full stack Post raise 8 founder + CTO + growth + content + BD + iOS + community + 1 engineer
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The ask

Raising $1M Seed for 10% equity.

$10M pre-money valuation. To turn a working app into India’s social network for students, reach 1M aspirants in 18 months, and earn the right to go worldwide.

USE OF FUNDS · $1,000,000
$1M 18 months
Product and Engineering$350K · 35%
Growth and Marketing$300K · 30%
Team and Talent$200K · 20%
Infrastructure and Ops$100K · 10%
Reserve$50K · 5%
THE DEAL
10%
Investment$1.0M
Equity10%
Pre-money valuation$10.0M
WHAT $1M BUYS US
  • 1,000,000 aspirants on Sikhami
  • 1,000 institutes onboarded · ₹2 Cr ARR run-rate by month 18
  • iOS shipped and Android scaled
  • Founding team in place · Series A-ready on real metrics
Talk to the founder →
Saurabh Khatri, Foundersaurabh@sikhami.comsikhami.comOpenSocial IntellectraX Pvt Ltd, New Delhi
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