MU20 has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding spherical from training entrepreneur Aakash Chaudhry and the Indian Faculty of Enterprise (Hyderabad).

The startup will use the raised capital to strengthen its AI-native profession acceleration engine, enhance personalised profession and alternative suggestions for college students, and scale pilots throughout its rising community of companion colleges.

Based by Tejas Ok. Jain, ISB ivi Valedictorian and Madhur Oza with steering from Dr. Sumer B. Singh (President, MU20), the platform combines an always-available AI mentor (MU20 Coach), university-powered golf equipment, and in-school Profession Incubation Labs to offer college students structured publicity to entrepreneurship, AI & information, design, coverage, analysis and extra.

MU20 claims it really works with 300+ colleges and reached tens of hundreds of scholars by way of summits, challenges and experiential packages, and is now productising that have right into a scalable providing constructed at ISB DLabs.

“For many years, profession steering has been a one-time dialog in Grade 10 or 12,” mentioned Tejas Ok. Jain, Co-founder & CEO of MU20.

“However the mind, particularly throughout adolescence, is consistently altering, studying, and rewiring. Careers shouldn’t be a last-minute kind; they need to be a four-to-six-year incubation journey. With MU20, we wish each pupil, not simply the privileged few to have an AI mentor, a portfolio of actual work, university-powered publicity, and a transparent story to inform once they apply to school or jobs,” he added.

“A baby’s mind is most moldable throughout adolescence, that is when careers ought to be incubated, not determined in a single day,” mentioned Aakash Chaudhry, Founder & Managing Director, Sparkl Edventure Pvt. Ltd. (Ex co-founder Aakash Academic Providers Restricted – AESL), “MU20 brings rigor and continuity to profession discovery by combining AI, early publicity and deep college partnerships.”