Foreign education venture Leap raises $55 million

BENGALURU:Leap, which helps students study overseas by helping them with test preparation and loans, has raised $55 million in series-C funding led by Owl Ventures. The round also saw participation from

Harvard Management Company

, along with returning investors

Jungle Ventures

and

Sequoia Capital India

. The round comes less than six months after

Leap

raised its series-B, which was led by Jungle Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to date to over $75 million.

Leap runs a million-member strong community of international study aspirants in South Asia and has helped over 60,000 students in their study abroad journey. Leap co-founder Vaibhav Singh said they have seen an unprecedented demand from students to move abroad this year.