--- description: Find out why BYJU'S was selected for the inaugural list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2021: BYJU'S image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d99d6a7c7476aad/698a1916656a3f2df5bdb39a/byjus-time100-companies.jpeg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 26, 2021 # BYJU'S Expanding E-learning by [Michael Zennie](/author/michael-zennie/) ## Michael Zennie Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  One of BYJU's teachers in a still from the app. One of BYJU's teachers in a still from the app.Courtesy BYJU's Byju Raveendran, the founder of Indian e-learning startup BYJU’S, knows how to press an advantage. As users of his company’s signature app nearly doubled to 80 million during the COVID-19 pandemic, he went on a spending spree, fueled by funding from investors like [Tencent](https://time.com/collection/time100-companies/5950051/tencent/ "undefined") and BlackRock. The BYJU’S summer acquisition of WhiteHat Jr, an app that teaches kids to code—along with the purchase of Silicon Valley educational-game maker Osmo in 2019—gives the company a foothold in the U.S. e-learning market. In April, the company announced plans to dramatically expand outside its home base in India, adding one-on-one lessons in the U.S., the U.K., Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil. BYJU’S also snapped up a leading Indian test-prep school for almost $1 billion. The explosive growth has turned BYJU’S into one of India’s most lucrative startups—increasing the company’s expected value to $15 billion, up from $5.5 billion in July 2019 BYJU'S Is One of the 2021 TIME100 Most Influential Companies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5950024/byjus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5950024/byjus/"},"headline":"BYJU'S","datePublished":"2021-04-26T15:41:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:48:55.675Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5950024/byjus/","keywords":["Lists","franchise","TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d99d6a7c7476aad/698a1916656a3f2df5bdb39a/byjus-time100-companies.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Zennie","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michael-zennie/"}],"creator":"Michael Zennie","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d99d6a7c7476aad/698a1916656a3f2df5bdb39a/byjus-time100-companies.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5950024/byjus/","name":"BYJU'S"}}]}] ```