As visa crashes and diplomatic tensions block traditional study studies, India’s gearing EDU students help redirect their dreams from Canada to Germany and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. This agility pays off: Startup has doubled its returned, reversed profitable and is now expanding its global footprint.
Over the past several months, students across new markets have faced growing uncertainty about international college admission. Changing visa rules and diplomatic tension-from 2023-2024 standoff between India and Canada to new tribes in India-US over customs and immigration policy-have disturbed application time lines and justification to thousands. Countries such as Canada and Australia have introduced strictly student visa policies and captured many families away. Even long -time local consultants and study companies have struggled to adapt. Meanwhile, the gearing start behind the study-abroad platform gearing EDU-HAS was breathing by helping to study identifying alternative destinations and adjusting quickly, keeping their plans on track despite the disturbance.
The eight-year start-up was quick to answer when India-Canada acidified the connections, which helped Indian students break down to Germany and Asting Canadian universities in recruiting from Nigeria-effective to save students pipelines in both regions. It’s now app the same PlayBook in the middle of the ongoing US-India tribes.
While gearing continues to send students to the United States, a growing proportion of this demand is now coming from countries such as Brazil and Vietnam – where interest in US universities remains strong, founder and CEO Akshay Chatshay Chanvai said in an interview.
This ability to quickly switch over geographies is now central to Leverage’s growth strategy. In the last two months, start -up has been expanded to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Vietnam and Malaysia – new markets with an increasing number of studs seeking to study abroad, but with limited access to structured admission support. With this push, leverage now operates in 16 countries where it is recruiting students, which helps them apply for universities in 11 destination countries.
In addition to applications, the start-up headquarters in Noida, a technical hub on the outskirts of New Delhi is placed itself as a platform for full service for international education, helps Studioplan, finance and lead their days. Its tools include a mobile app, an AI-Power Racing search engine, a university matchmaking tool’s cap uniconnect and a recently launched Saas suite for global universities under Brand Univalley.ai.
The startup has also been extended to an adjoining categories with offers such as leverage MBBS for medical aspirants under gearing EDU as well as flight financing for educational loans, flying houses for Stud Housing and other services under gearing careers and compass.
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Leverage now places over 10,000 students annually, up from approx. 1,500 just years ago. Much of this growth has come through the organic demand, where 60% of students’ acquisitions require zero customer purchase costs, according to CHATUREY.
“Our gap is narrowed with most of our global spaces that were either large listed companies or that had raised some of these mega rounds,” he told TechCrunch.
Economically, leverage has seen sharp growth – and became profitable for the first time this year, a rarity in India’s Edtech sector. The startup closed the 2025 financial year with over $ 1.8 billion (about $ 20 million) in revenue and doubled from the previous year’s $ 900 million (about $ 10 million). Between April and September, the first half of the 2026 financial year, it generated more than $ 2 billion (about $ 23 million) and is on the way to end the financial year with $ 3.7 $ 3.8 billion (about $ 45 million) in revenue.
On the profitability front, leverage received $ 120-130 million (about $ 1.4-1.5 million) in profit after tax and expects to surpass $ 250 million ($ 2.8 million) at the end of the financial year 2026, a 256% turnarour from full-year loss of $ 800 million. 2025.
The startup generates about 25% of his returned from his platform business, which supports Studs in addition to recordings-with value added services included, money transfers, housing and help to secure internships or first jobs. The remaining 75% of the return comes from its core education business – Student’s location and counseling services. Within this comes approx. 20% directly from students and 55% from universities in commissions, Chattervedi told TechCrunch.
India remains Levera’s large source market and accounts for 58% of its total student’s base. In the country, start -ups focus on states such as Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab – regions that consistently send a large number of studs to universities abroad.
With regard to destinations, the United Kingdom of Liver’s large market remains and accounts for 52% of students’ locations, followed by Germany to 22%. Italy-Sit fast growing market in summer is also traction.
North America representations currently less than 5% of the total rankings for leverage, reflecting strict visa rules and diplomatic headwinds in recent years. The start -up expects this proportion to grow when its presence is expanded over Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
India IPO in plans, probably for 2026
With rising income and an expanding global footprint, start -up is now a potential stock exchange listing in India as early as next year, and investment bankers have already made early seats, people who are familiar with the case told Techcrunch.
Founder and CEO CHATURDI did not deny the possibility of a public listing, but he said that leverage would decide between pursuing a stock exchange listing or raison?
So far, Leverage has raised less than $ 50 million in equity. The company operates over 27 countries through over 50 offices and has an employee number of about 800 people.