<p>Venture capital firm Accel Partners will invest close to $1 million in Mind Edutainment, a company that develops and provides solutions to improve social and emotional thinking skills among school-going children.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A source with direct knowledge of the deal said that the investment would be in the form of early stage or seed funding. Accel, presently, is said to be fine-tuning the deal.<br /><br />The company, headed by Ashutosh Khurana, has been building thinking development programmes for school children in the form of a venture called ‘My Thinking Programme’.<br /><br />“We always felt the need for a programme that would have some specific component targeted at the development of thinking abilities among children,” said Mind Edutainment Co-Founder and CEO Khurana.<br /><br />Mind Edutainment provides services to schools in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Chandigarh and Delhi NCR.<br /><br />Earlier, the company had received funding from the Department of Science and Technology and individual angel investors. Companies which Accel Partners has invested in include Flipkart and some others.</p>
<p>Venture capital firm Accel Partners will invest close to $1 million in Mind Edutainment, a company that develops and provides solutions to improve social and emotional thinking skills among school-going children.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A source with direct knowledge of the deal said that the investment would be in the form of early stage or seed funding. Accel, presently, is said to be fine-tuning the deal.<br /><br />The company, headed by Ashutosh Khurana, has been building thinking development programmes for school children in the form of a venture called ‘My Thinking Programme’.<br /><br />“We always felt the need for a programme that would have some specific component targeted at the development of thinking abilities among children,” said Mind Edutainment Co-Founder and CEO Khurana.<br /><br />Mind Edutainment provides services to schools in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Chandigarh and Delhi NCR.<br /><br />Earlier, the company had received funding from the Department of Science and Technology and individual angel investors. Companies which Accel Partners has invested in include Flipkart and some others.</p>
