About
Ritesh Singh Chandel is the co-founder and chief executive of Arivihan, an Indore-based AI tutoring platform for school students. A graduate of IIT Roorkee, he spent about three years in corporate jobs at Fidelity Investments and the investing platform Groww before starting the company, and holds an AWS Certified Solutions Architect credential, according to Arivihan's leadership page. He founded Arivihan in 2022 with fellow IIT Roorkee alumnus Sonu Kumar and maths educator Rushabh Kothari. The platform delivers video lectures, automated doubt-solving and personalised study plans without live teachers, aimed largely at Class 12 state board, CBSE and NEET students; Chandel has said 80% of subscribers come from Tier III towns and rural India, mainly in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar. Arivihan was backed early by Accel's Atoms programme, raised a $4.17 million pre-Series A round led by Prosus and Accel in July 2025, and in September 2026 closed a $10.2 million Series A co-led by Accel and Prosus Ventures, taking total funding past $15 million.
Source: inc42.com
