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Belva Devara: The whiz kid transforming Indonesia’s education sector

  • Indonesia
  • 6 min read
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • By Putu Agung Wija Putera
Belva Devara: The whiz kid transforming Indonesia’s education sector

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Recently made advisor to the Indonesian president, edtech Ruangguru founder and CEO Belva Devara has also begun mentoring and promoting new startups in Indonesia

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At aged 23, Adamas Belva Syah Devara and Muhamad Iman Usman started edtech company Ruangguru after noticing that Indonesia's market for private tutors was fragmented and disorganized – so the story goes. The best friends were trying to hire a private tutor to help them prepare for their postgraduate studies in the US, but realized there was no reliable way of finding a good tutor, besides by word of mouth. And so they launched an early version of a private tutor online marketplace platform in 2014, and managed to raise seed funding from East Ventures.Devara would know how much good tutoring ca...
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Co-Founder and Chief of Product and Partnership of Ruangguru

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