AITS (Affordable Innovative Techno Services), the parent company behind the Rysen Group of Schools network, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round. The round was led by Big Capital and Redbrook Fund, with participation from Udaan co-founder Sujeet Kumar, Livspace co-founder Ramakant Sharma, and Unacademy co-founder Roman Saini.
Founded in 2023 by O.P. Godara, Kapil Arya, Dr. Kapil Jain, and Pritesh Meena, AITS has established 15 campuses across nine cities in Rajasthan, enrolling over 10,000 students. The company combines structured academics, experiential learning, and technology-enabled instruction within an asset-light operational model.
According to the company, the capital will be used to expand Rysen School’s campus network across emerging cities, strengthen its technology-led learning infrastructure, and scale standardised school operating models. The company aims to enrol 100,000 students within three years by adding 100 new campuses across Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
India’s private K-12 schooling market is undergoing a structural shift as affordable, tech-integrated chains move into cities that legacy private school networks have historically ignored. Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets — where income levels are rising, but quality school infrastructure remains scarce — have become a target for venture-backed operators who see the segment as both a social and commercial opportunity. The involvement of angels like Roman Saini, Ramakant Sharma, and Sujeet Kumar signals that edtech founders who built large consumer platforms are now backing infrastructure plays, reflecting a maturation in how education capital is being deployed in India.
AITS is one of the more interesting education bets in recent Indian startup history — not because of what it is, but because of what it’s attempting. Running 15 campuses across nine cities within three years of founding, while maintaining an asset-light model, is operationally demanding. The 100-campus target over the next three years implies roughly 28 new campuses per year — a pace that will test whether the standardised operating model can be replicated without quality dilution.
The presence of angel investors like Saini and Kumar also raises the possibility of future ecosystem linkages: Unacademy’s content stack and Udaan’s supply-chain expertise could theoretically complement AITS’ infrastructure play in ways that go beyond capital. That said, the edtech-to-school-network crossover has claimed casualties before, and execution in Tier 3 India remains the hardest variable to predict.
