What Claylab Education Foundation does

Claylab Education Foundation is an India-registered nonprofit founded in July 2020 by three Teach For India Fellows (Vivek Kaushik, Brototy Mishra, and Purva Parwani) and headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, with operations across Maharashtra, Delhi NCR, Gujarat, and Uttarakhand. The organization targets affordable private schools in rural and suburban India that are trusted community institutions but lack support for 21st-century skills, and embeds trained Fellows inside partner schools for a 2-year cycle to institutionalize a problem-solving, leadership, and livelihoods curriculum for Grades 9-12 (minimum 100 minutes per grade per week, ~60 hours per year).

Its core products are the Claylab Fellowship (2-year school-embedded fellowship), the Mentor Program (24-week, 1-hour-per-week remote mentorship for Grade 11 students in Uttarakhand), and prior flagship programs including the One-to-One Mentorship for Grade 10 students (launched 2021) and the School of Entrepreneurship for Grades 11-12 (launched 2023). The underlying offering is a codified 7-month curriculum framework spanning Agency, Problem Solving, Collaboration, Communication, Work Readiness, Reflection, and Integration, supported by experiential learning and student-led community projects (400+ documented to date).

Claylab is funded primarily by community donations through the Claylab Circle (INR 2,000/month for a 1-year minimum commitment), supplemented by tax-receipt-eligible giving and the sale of 80G certificates under Indian law; the Fellowship is free for students and partner schools. Go-to-market is community-led: Fellows, mentors, and donors are recruited predominantly from Teach For India alumni networks and word-of-mouth from existing school partners, with formal 2-year MoUs and co-created annual goals governing school engagements. Five-plus years of field experience and over 5,000 students mentored are cited as outcome credentials; the publicly stated long-term goal is 100 exemplar schools in 100 villages over 10 years.

Name

Claylab Education Foundation

Legal name

Claylab Education Foundation

Website

https://claylab.education

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Claylab Education Foundation is an India-based nonprofit founded in 2020 that embeds trained Fellows inside affordable private schools for a 2-year cycle to deliver a problem-solving, leadership, and livelihoods curriculum to Grades 9-12, funded primarily through a donor community (Claylab Circle) and supported by a remote mentor program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

International Development & Donor-Funded Education Programs (EDADALAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Education & Teaching Volunteer Programs (EDAIAGAD)

Keywords

• K-12 education services
• School transformation programs
• Education fellowships
• Student mentorship programs
• Life skills curriculum

Headquarters

HQ city

Gurugram

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations (Claylab Circle): Monthly donations of ₹2,000/month for 1-year commitment from community supporters. Funds support Fellow placement in schools, student leadership programs, and whole-school transformation. This is the primary revenue stream for the nonprofit.
2. Annual Reports and Transparency: The organization publishes annual reports (2020-21 through 2024-25) documenting their work and financials. Tax receipts and 80G certificates are provided to donors per Indian tax laws.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Claylab Education Foundation delivers the Claylab Fellowship, a 2-year school-embedded program that places trained Fellows inside affordable private schools in India to teach a problem-solving, leadership, and livelihoods curriculum to Grades 9–12. It also runs the Claylab Mentor Program (24-week remote one-to-one mentorship for Grade 11 students) and the Claylab Circle donor community, with all programs offered free to students and partner schools and funded through philanthropic donations.

Product overview

Claylab Education Foundation offers a portfolio of education programs designed to build problem-solvers for India. The core offerings include the Claylab Fellowship (a 2-year school-embedded program), the Claylab Mentor Program (a 24-week remote mentorship), and Claylab Circle (a donor community). Prior programs include the One-to-One Mentorship Program (for Grade 10 students) and the School of Entrepreneurship Program (for Grades 11-12). The organization evolved from running standalone student programs to whole-school transformation through the Fellowship model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Claylab Fellowship: A 2-year, school-embedded fellowship to build problem-solvers for India. Fellows work inside affordable private schools to make problem-solving the core of education.
• One-to-One Mentorship Program
• School of Entrepreneurship Program
• Claylab Circle

Products and services

• Claylab Fellowship A 2-year, school-embedded fellowship program that places trained Fellows inside affordable private schools (Grades 9–12) to teach a problem-solving, leadership, and livelihoods curriculum (100+ minutes per grade per week, ~60 hours per year) and to act as institution builders, coaching students through real community and livelihood projects.
• Claylab Mentor Program A 24-week remote one-to-one mentorship program in which volunteer professional mentors (1 hour per week) serve as thinking partners for Grade 11 students in Uttarakhand partner schools, supporting reflection, goal-setting, and internalization of problem-solving behaviors.
• Claylab Circle A community donor program requiring a ₹2,000/month commitment for 1 year to fund Fellow placement in schools, student leadership programs, and whole-school transformation, emphasizing long-term systems change over short-term giving.
• One-to-One Mentorship Program Flagship 20-week one-to-one online mentoring program for Grade 10 students focused on self-awareness, goal-setting, career exploration, CV building, interview readiness, networking, and long-term planning; supported 1,000+ professional mentors and ₹1 crore+ opportunities unlocked for students.
• School of Entrepreneurship Program A 9-month project-based learning program for Grades 11–12 students that walks students through problem identification, solution design, piloting, execution, and pitching of real-world problem-solving projects addressing community needs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Every student impacts at least 5 lives annually through real projects
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Teach For IndiacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Claylab was founded by three Teach For India Fellows (Vivek Kaushik, Brototy Mishra, and Purva Parwani). The organization actively recruits alumni of Teach For India and similar fellowship programs as Fellows. Teach For India's model of placing talented individuals in schools for systemic change is foundational to Claylab's approach.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• GEMS Education: Global for-profit K-12 school operator with presence in India through GEMS Modern Academy and similar schools. A broader incumbent providing fee-based private education, illustrating the market segment Claylab's partner schools compete within but on a for-profit basis.
• Bharti Foundation: Corporate foundation running the Satya Bharti School program across rural India. A larger, more established education foundation with significant resources, comparable mission of rural school transformation but with much broader scope and resources.
• Central Square Foundation: India-focused education philanthropy and policy nonprofit that funds and supports school improvement efforts at scale. A broader, well-funded incumbent that operates in adjacent territory through funding and research rather than direct school partnerships.

Direct peers

• Leadership for Equity: Pune-based nonprofit that places leadership fellows in government schools to drive systemic reform. Comparable systems-change orientation, fellow-embedded model, and focus on under-served schools in India.
• Pratham: One of India's largest education NGOs, focused on literacy, numeracy, and life skills for under-served children. Operates at massive scale across India and is a comparable nonprofit peer in terms of mission, target segment, and curriculum-driven intervention model.
• Dream a Dream: Bengaluru-based nonprofit partnering with schools to deliver life skills and employability programs for adolescents from low-income communities. Similar focus on Grades 9-12, life skills curriculum, and school partnerships.
• Teach For India: The flagship India fellowship that places high-potential graduates in low-income schools for 2 years. Claylab was founded by TFI alumni and recruits Fellows from this exact network, sharing a near-identical operating model of embedded talent in under-resourced schools.
• Kaivalya Education Foundation: India-based education leadership and systems-change nonprofit working to transform school culture and leadership. Comparable focus on school-level transformation, leadership development, and the philosophy of school as a system rather than a set of programs.
• STIR Education: India- and Africa-focused nonprofit that improves teacher practice and student outcomes through networks of teacher 'fellows' and school leaders. Directly comparable model of placing talented individuals inside schools to drive culture and pedagogy change.
• Akanksha Foundation: Mumbai-headquartered education nonprofit operating schools and after-school programs for under-served children. Highly comparable given shared geography, low-income private school focus, and similar mission of holistic student development beyond academics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/claylabeducationfoundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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