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Internshala helps students discover internships and employers recruit junior talent, building a valuable two-sided network through free content and focused distribution.
50–60 lakh student registrations/year · 4,000–5,000 internships approved/day
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Sarvesh Agrawal founded Internshala in 2010 after seeing how difficult it was for even a well-educated friend to find an internship in India. He began with a WordPress blog, manually listing 40–50 opportunities and writing about stipends, research roles, and eligibility. Colleges shared it as a centralized resource. A distribution breakthrough came through IIT Madras alumni: an email went to around 18,000 alumni and generated 800 replies by the next morning. The founder spent about six months building it part-time, reaching about 2,000 daily visitors before leaving his job. The platform developed into a two-sided internship marketplace, then added online training. The founder reports 50–60 lakh student registrations a year, 5–6 crore applications, 4,000–5,000 internships approved daily, and 1.5–2 lakh companies introduced. The interview also records early economics of ₹6 lakh earnings against ₹5.5 lakh spending in one period. The title’s 100-crore framing is not itself a substantiated revenue line, so the reported traction and early earnings are the useful evidence.
9 more sections — how the first customers came, how the first dollar landed, what turned the flywheel, and how they got through the silent stretch. Members read all of it.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: Founder interview on Sahil Khanna’s channel. The founder reports the early ₹6 lakh earnings and ₹5.5 lakh spending figures and the platform traffic and activity metrics. They are self-reported and unaudited; “earnings” is not further defined in the transcript. The 100-crore title and hypothetical valuation discussion should not be read as verified revenue.