Physics Wallah

Physics Wallah Limited (PW) is an Indian educational technology company headquartered in Noida. It was started by Alakh Pandey as a YouTube channel in 2016 and was aimed at teaching physics for the JEE, NEET, and CBSE board examinations. As the channel began to gain more viewership, Pandey also started to post chemistry content. In 2020, Pandey, along with his co-founder, Prateek Maheshwari, established Physics Wallah as a company.

Physics Wallah became a unicorn company in 2022.^[3] As of September 2024. the company is valued at around $2.8 billion.^[4] Physics Wallah went public on the Indian exchanges with a ₹3,480 crore (US$360 million) initial public offering (IPO) in November 2025.^[5][6]

Physics Wallah, was founded in 2016 as a YouTube channel hosted by Alakh Pandey, an educator hailing from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The channel was initially focused on teaching the physics curriculum for the Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE), a popular entrance examination in India.^[7] Due to Pandey's style of teaching,^[7][8] the channel grew rapidly, reaching over 2 million followers in 2019.^[9] In 2020, Pandey along with co-founder Prateek Maheshwari developed the Physics Wallah app.^[8] The app was initially designed for students aspiring to take the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)^[10][11] and offered courses similar to those of competing companies at an affordable rate.^[8] Over the next few years, Physics Wallah expanded their offerings by launching courses for other competitive exams including but not limited to Union Public Service Commission (UPSC),^[12]Olympiads, and various non-competitive exams including CBSE and state boards, among others.

As of February 2025, the Physics Wallah app had been downloaded over 10 million times on the Google Play Store. The Physics Wallah YouTube channel had 13.3 million subscribers at the same time.^[13] In June 2022, the company became a unicorn company after being valued at over $1.1 billion following its first funding round where it raised $100 million in funding from various venture capital firms.^[14] During the same time, PW also launched its first offline center named Vidyapeeth in Kota, Rajasthan.^[15][16] By November 2023, Physics Wallah had expanded to 67 offline centers in 34 cities across India.^[17] However, in the same month, Physics Wallah laid off 150 employees, amounting to 0.8% of its workforce, citing performance reasons.^[17]

In September 2024, the company raised $210 million in funding at $2.8 billion valuation.^[18]

En marzo de 2023, varios profesores de la empresa de tecnología educativa alegaron que la visión de la empresa se estaba desvaneciendo y, en respuesta, crearon un canal independiente de YouTube llamado «Sankalp Bharat». ^{[ 19 ] [ 20 ]} Mediante un vídeo subido a dicho canal, explicaron los motivos de su salida de Physics Wallah, citando el ambiente de la empresa como el factor principal. Además, alegaron que los alumnos del centro de Physics Wallah en Kota no recibían una educación que justificara las tasas de matrícula que se les cobraban. ^{[ 21 ] [ 20 ]}

En respuesta, un profesor de la empresa, Pankaj Sijariya, alegó en un video que a los tres exprofesores de PW —Tarun Kumar, Manish Dubey y Sarvesh Dixit— se les ofreció 5 crore de rupias (520 000 dólares estadounidenses) a cada uno para que renunciaran a Physics Wallah y se unieran a la empresa rival, Adda247. ^{[ 22 ]} Los tres profesores, en un video, afirmaron que Pankaj Sijariya los acusó de aceptar sobornos de la plataforma rival Adda247. ^{[ 23 ]} La empresa se ha negado a comentar sobre la veracidad de las afirmaciones y, en un comunicado a Business Today, calificó las acusaciones de "distracción". ^{[ 24 ]}

En agosto de 2022, Physics Wallah adquirió FreeCo, una plataforma de resolución de dudas, y la marcó como su primera adquisición. ^{[ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ]} Más tarde ese mismo año, Physics Wallah adquirió varias startups que se centraban en la publicación de libros destinados a ayudar a los estudiantes a prepararse para varios exámenes competitivos. ^{[ 28 ]} Physics Wallah también adquirió iNeuron de S. Chand Group durante el mismo período. ^{[ 29 ]} En 2023, Physics Wallah adquirió una participación del 50% de Xylem Learning, una plataforma de educación híbrida en el sur de la India. ^{[ 30 ]}

En diciembre de 2024, el Gobierno de Andhra Pradesh y Physics Wallah firmaron un Memorando de Entendimiento (MoU) para establecer la Universidad de Innovación (UoI). ^{[ 31 ]}

Una miniserie web de 6 episodios titulada Physics Wallah, que narra la vida de Alakh Pandey (interpretado por Shreedhar Dubey) y su empresa, se estrenó el 15 de diciembre de 2022 en Amazon miniTV . La serie fue creada, dirigida y producida por Abhishek Dhandharia, bajo su productora About Films. ^{[ 32 ]}

Otra serie web, Hello Bachhon , producida por The Viral Fever , con Vineet Kumar Singh en el papel principal de Alakh Pandey, se estrenó el 6 de marzo de 2026 en Netflix . ^{[ 33 ] [ 34 ]}

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