The Delhi International Airport is said to have stood witness to the dramatic detention of a serial startup founder last week. According to multiple sources Inc42 spoke to, Ankit Maheshwari was picked up by police soon after he disembarked an international flight and flown to Kolkata, where he was arrested on charges of alleged fraud. The Dataisgood founder was presented before the Calcutta High Court on September 26, the sources told Inc42, refusing to be quoted in a subjudice matter. But, what played behind the unfolding of the arrest saga remains unclear. Inc42 has reviewed an FIR filed in May 2025 by Kantika Mukherjee, a resident of Kolkata, whose LinkedIn profile shows her as the deputy director of LawSikho, another brand run by Skill Arbitrage. Delhi NCR-based edtech platform Skill Arbitrage’s parent entity had acquired Dataisgood in 2023. Read more- 4-2.co/479uBnA #Inc42 #data #theft #lawsuit

😠LawSikho. How a bad acquisition turned, an SME IPO dream into tatters. Rs.440 to Rs.140 If LawSikho, headed by lawyers couldnt smell scam and paid in stocks (0.92%) and hard cash (Rs.1Cr out of Rs.3Cr) to acquire Ankit Maheshwari's bogus datascience edtech firm, DataIsGood, how would investors figure out what is in store?! 😠 The stock has cratered from Rs.440 to Rs.140 with expected revenue boost from Data Science Courses, disappearing into thin air. Brand is hurt badly due to the hurt trainees of DataIsGood pointing out LawSikho as parent company to even National Skill Development Corporation. What if NSDC drops the company? (Addictive Learning) Ankit Maheshwari, who continued to run the bogus operation even after acquisition, has been arrested recently on a complaint by LawSikho. 2 years is too late. ❓The question from investors: WHY, WHY, WHY did you allow DataIsGood to operate, without any oversight? Isn't that grave negligence and belittling of investor trust? 😠 Check original Review below. Jan 2024. The company looked very promising. But revenue got stuck around 33cr average, over last 4 half years. Bottomline: Never acquire companies working in domains that are foreign to you, unless you have a highly competent resource with expertise in that domain to control and manage the operations. By the way, the scammer who nicely duped Law Sikho, sold 40% of his stock and also pocketed Rs.1Cr of IPO money. Will Law Sikho learn and recover from this debacle? Google Search: Ankit Maheshwari arrested.

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after they quit due to personal obstacles. 3. Data is Good :- They acquired and successfully integrated the data science and data analytics course business of Dataisgood. This is a rapidly growing market. Opportunity:- 1. An US sme or Startup can hire a Indian profession 4x-

Addictive Learning Technology Business (LawSikho) - 1/ **About** Founded in September 2017, Addictive Learning Technology Ltd is an edtech platform that focuses on upskilling and career services for senior, mid-career, and young professionals. 2/ **Business Profile** The company offers a wide range of courses and training programs across Law, Finance, Compliance, HR, Business Consulting, AI, Content Writing, and Data Science. These are delivered under three brands: **LawSikho**, **Skill Arbitrage**, and **Dataisgood**. 3/ **Course Details** - **Domestic Legal Courses**: 14 - **International Legal Courses**: 8 - **International Bar Exams**: 3 - **Test Prep Courses**: 10 - **Professional Upskilling**: 11 4/ **Brands** - **LawSikho**: Focuses on legal education and skill development, offering a diverse range of courses. - **Skill Arbitrage**: Offers a broad spectrum of courses across various subjects, emphasizing practical skills that can be applied in different industries. - **Dataisgood**: Specializes in data science and technology, providing hands-on, live training by industry experts. 5/ **Revenue Breakdown** - **Legal Courses**: 92% of revenue in FY23 (vs. 100% in FY22) - **Professional Upskilling**: 8% of revenue in FY23 (vs. 0% in FY22) 6/ **Certifications** All courses are accredited by the **National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)**. Upon course completion, learners receive certificates co-branded by **NSDC** and **Skill India**. 7/ **Employee Count** As of October 2023, the company employs **145** full-time employees and **444** full-time consultants. #EdTech #LawSikho

Key Services of Addictive Learning Technology Upskilling Courses: Law, Finance, Compliance, HR, Business Consulting, AI, Content Writing, Data Science (through LawSikho, Skill Arbitrage, and Dataisgood brands) International Career Support: Equipping learners with skills and qualifications for remote work in the international market. Popular courses include US law, accounting, international contracts, and more. International Bar Exam Preparation: Canadian Barrister & Solicitor Exam, UK Solicitor Qualification Exam (SQE), California Bar Exam, and NCA exam for Indian lawyers seeking to practice in Canada.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW of Addictive Learning Technology The company offers courses and training programs to help individuals advance their skills. The company covers Law, Finance, Compliance, Human Resources, Business Consulting, Artificial Intelligence, Content Writing, and Data Science under three different brands: LawSikho, Skill Arbitrage, and Dataisgood. This company is a professional upskilling and career services edtech platform that caters primarily to mid-career and senior professionals, with some offerings for young professionals and college students/graduates. They offer a comprehensive range of courses and training programs to help busy professionals develop high-demand skills, build a strong track record, and access remote or freelance work opportunities – both domestically and internationally.

#Upskilling Strong demand for skill sets in data analytics, generative AI, machine learning A large number of students are enrolling in data science and AI-related courses. #DataIsGood economictimes.indiatimes.com…

21. Lawsikho: It is an EdTech company. ⚡️Business Model: It has 3 verticals: 1. Lawsikho: offers legal courses & test prep. for US,UK,India & Canada. 2. Skill arbitrage: offers courses like HR,finance,bookkeeping,etc.(see pic👇) 3. Dataisgood: offers data science & tech courses.

Reflections on LawSikho’s last financial year performance and goals ahead We successfully doubled our revenue in FY 2024. I can talk about this now finally because we have submitted our financials to the stock exchange. Last year our revenue was close to 33 cr, we reached ~65 cr this year. I thought we could do more, there were many missed opportunities. Still, I am grateful for what we could do. We also more than doubled our profits. We will continue to keep the momentum going in this financial year. All the misses last year are now getting converted into golden opportunities this year. Here is what we got right: 1. We scaled up Skill Arbitrage, launched many new categories and reached product market fit. We have significantly increased our Total Addressable market now given this as well as our success in being able to sell courses in the North American and UK market. 2. It was very difficult to create so many high quality courses, teams of mentors, and placement systems. We cracked them. 3. We really finetuned our marketing, increased organic lead generation, reduced CAC despite rapid growth. 4. We managed our budget and costs very tightly, and didn’t allow costs to spiral out of control. 5. We more than doubled our engineering team, and they have been regularly shipping new features and products which either increase our revenue, reduce costs, or create a moat. 6. We weathered the edtech winter really well. While most edtechs have faced backlash and tough questions, it did not affect our business at all. Rather we did a very good IPO. 7. We were not able to give enough time to the business while IPO was happening - for about 3 months we were quite distracted. Still we managed to post a strong result. 8. Our test prep team has produced phenomenal results which we expect to influence our financial performance also going forward as we become a major player in legal test prep. 9. We have managed to start selling our courses in the US, in the UK and Canada. We have a nascent sales team focusing on these markets. 10. We managed to scale and operate efficiently while working remotely. We have a huge advantage when it comes to hiring top talent at a lower cost. Also the fact that our team can function remotely is a testament to the quality of the robust systems we have built. 11. We have successfully deployed AI across our business. It helped us to do more with less and keep our costs low. 12. We recreated most of our courses to be heavily AI focused. We are preparing the workforce of the future. We launched and scaled LawSikho opportunities which rapidly became one of the top job platforms in the legal space, with close to 3000 visitors and 300 applicants per day. We would look to scale it 10x from here and also launch similar job boards in SkillArbitrage and Dataisgood. 13. Quality of our courses have improved, so has service delivery, while costs have reduced on this front. 14. In the last quarter, we rapidly scaled up our content creation, and launched many high value courses which has set us up for faster growth in the months ahead. What we failed to do as well as we hoped to do: 1. We could not meaningfully scale our sales team as much as we wanted. We have had many learnings though, which are currently being deployed. We will aim to scale our sales team from the current 80 to 300 over the next year. 2. We have been trying to deploy autofunnels. While our autofunnels have started to produce results the scaling part is yet to come. We are still learning what works and what does not work. 3. Development of our referral portal has been delayed, but it can be launched over the next month. This will enable us to open a new sales channel - affiliate sales. 4. We have hired a team for product led sales growth. We will be launching several products - microlearning app, AI driven legal assistant tools, legal research database, job platform app and such other tools for our audience - which we expect would create product led revenue channels. 5. Our operations have further opportunity to be optimised, especially with AI tools, although we made great progress on that front in the last 3 months. 6. Our microlearning app for law has been delayed although the first level of development is complete. When it is launched we expect improved branding, more daily engagement with the community and better CAC due to more organic leads. 7. We have not succeeded with community marketing as much as we wanted, we have hired a new team and are working on it. This can majorly improve our CAC and better lead to conversion rate. What would be our obsessive focus in the current financial year: 1. Scaling sales academy 2. Autofunnels 3. Launching more courses in US/UK/Canada market 4. Building and nurturing communities 5. Building autofunnels to onboard more clients in the US for increased work flow for our learners Important long term projects: 1. Identify high quality acquisition targets and close the ones where discussions are ongoing 2. US lawyer tool and marketplace app 3. AI based legal assistant 4. Turning iPleaders blog into a services marketplace Overall outlook: we will aim at doubling our revenue in the current year while improving PAT margins.

Work-from-home mothers built ~470 cr listed Indian edtech In 2015, when we were working on our first startup iPleaders, we needed to hire very good lawyers to train our students because we were trying to build the world's best legal education company. But it became impossible given the tiny budget we had. Good lawyers earn a lot. Why will they come work for us? Even if we could match their earnings they did not want to leave their thriving career and practice to work with us. And to top it all, we had very little budget as a bootstrapped company. Big law firms were paying the kind of lawyers we wanted to hire 2 lakhs per month. Our budget was Rs 25000 per month, which we could stretch to Rs 30,000, but no more. On top of that we were a small unheard of company, running out of a tiny office. People did not work with a company that had no brand name. So what would we do? Will our dream become a nightmare? Were we going to fail? It was hard to match the budget of funded startups and large companies. We were spending a lot of time hiring - we spent hours interviewing and speaking to talented candidates about our company and the future, many would not join as they would not be convinced about the future of the company. Many of our hires would quit after they realised that they are expected to take a high-level of ownership and responsibility - it is not like working in a big company. Many people left after getting trained with us, for brand name jobs with reputed employers that paid them 2x-3x of their current salaries. How can we grow if this keeps happening? This is how it is for most early stage startups. Nobody wants to work with them. When they are successful everyone wants to work for them. How did we solve our hiring problem? That is when we decided to try and hire work-from-home women remotely. We realised there were women who quit their legal practice or career despite being very successful, because they wanted to be more available for their families. They didn’t want to go to an office everyday, commuting for hours. But they were ready to work from home, only such jobs back in 2012-2018 were very hard to find. We decided to narrow down our focus on hiring women who wanted to work from home due to family reasons. Not only teaching law, we decided to hire from that background in all areas of our company - from customer support to tech, from marketing to sales. This strategy worked exceedingly well, as women working from home went on to build teams and lead the expansion of our work. Today, Addictive Learning Technology Private Limited owns 3 brands - LawSikho, Skill Arbitrage and DataIsGood. We employ over 600 full time employees and consultants, located in 8 countries and 4 continents! We are a listed company thanks to a blockbuster IPO in January 2024. Since we launched Addictive Learning in 2018, we have doubled or tripled our revenue every single year, despite no outside funding till we did our IPO! What is our secret? Work from home & hiring women from small towns. We have around 62% women in our workforce, 60% from small cities. Not only women, we now hire men also who want to work from home! We are able to be very picky today about who we hire. We get 100 applications or more for every open position. We can insist on hiring the best of the best in a relatively lower budget because we can work remotely while most of our competitors cannot. Do you still think that working from home is inferior to working from office?

First of all we have US legal courses, California bar Exam, Solicitor Qualification Exam course for UK, Canadian bar exam courses etc Second - we have two more brands apart from lawsikho - Skill Arbitrage and Dataisgood Dataisgood offers data science courses, most of their revenue is now coming from North America market

Placement update from August 23 to February 24 Addictive for Learning Technology Limited (including LawSikho, SkillArbitrage and Dataisgood) was shared on stock exchange recently: 1. Between August 2023 and February 2024, 11,165 learners benefited from our placement services which includes jobs, internships, and remote freelance work. 2. 1583 learners got jobs and 135 of these were International jobs from countries such as the US, UK, UAE, Canada, Australia, Poland, Malta, Singapore, etc. that offered remote jobs to Indian professionals. 3. 1583 learners secured jobs, including in Tier 1 and Tier 2 law firms and top companies in the last 7 months. The maximum salary secured was INR 27,60,000 per annum. 4. 3492 learners secured internships, including in Tier 1 & Tier 2 law firms and top companies in just 7 months. The highest stipend received was INR 22,000 per month. 5. 427 recruiters worldwide hired our learners to do freelance legal work in the last 7 months and 2899 legal freelance opportunities were secured. 6. 1050 women secured job placements through us in this period. 1354 women secured internships. Out of 6090 freelance assignments in the last 7 months over 1502 freelance projects were secured by women. 7. Total recorded freelance earnings secured by learners in the last 7 months with our assistance are about INR 2,38,60,563 (287,854 USD). Brilliant ideas on how we can grow these key numbers will always be welcome 🙏

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Finally I went through the extreme process of applying for US business visa The wait for the interview was very long But I have finally got it We already provide opportunities to our learners in US SMEs by the hundreds every month And 20% of Dataisgood revenue comes from the USA (selling courses to the world from India is under explored) I am looking forward to spending a few months in the US in 2024 exploring opportunities for LawSikho, Skill Arbitrage and Dataisgood. Is there someone you think I should meet when I am in NY, NJ, Tx or Ca? Do introduce 😀

IPO Analysis - Addictive Learning Limited #AddictiveLearningIPO #IPO #IPOAnalysis #Lawsikho Like and retweet for maximum reach!! 1. COMPANY OVERVIEW 🖥Addictive Learning is an professional upskilling and career services edtech platform which caters primarily to senior & mid-career professionals, and in some cases to young professionals as well. 🖥Their courses and training programs include Law, Finance, Compliance, Human Resources, Business Consulting, Artificial Intelligence, Content Writing and Data Science. 🖥Company majorly focuses on learners to find career opportunities in the international market remotely. 🖥Most of their revenues are driven by the law course vertical. Company operates in three distinct brands that are LawSikho, Skill Arbitrage and Dataisgood. 2. BRANDS 🖥LawSikho : offers wide range of courses and programs in legal education, skill development, test preparation and international bar exam 🖥Skill Arbitrage : caters to the legal upskilling sector in domains like compliance, HR, finance, bookkeeping, content writing and business consultancy 🖥Dataisgood : This company was acquired in 2023 with an intent to offer courses under data science, data analyst and cyber security vertical. 3. INDUSTRY 🖥Global edtech & smart classroom market size is projected to grow from $133.55 billion in 2023 to $433.17 billion by 2030, exhibiting a CAGR of 18.3% during the forecast period. 🖥Asia Pacific is expected to grow rapidly due to government-led programs, such as literacy expansion projects in rural areas to increase the demand for smart education in India, Japan, and Australia. 🖥The Indian EdTech industry is increasing due to online content consumption, high penetration of internet and smart devices, and the demand for skilled professionals in the global workforce.

Dataisgood has NSDC recognized courses in Datascience, Analytics, Cyber Security etc which are to be rolled out soon. It’s also developing a platform professionals to provide paid assistance to clients similar to #INFOLLION apart from a quick training app for faster learning ..9/