Education start-up IndiaCollegeSearch has secured undisclosed amount of funding from Indian Angel Network. This investment round was led by Vikram Kant Upadhyaya, Anupam Mittal and Varun Khurana. Vikram Kant Upadhyaya and Varun Khurana will also join the company's board. Speaking to Medianama, Anirudh Motwani, Co-founder of IndiaCollegeSearch says that the funds will be used for product and business development. The company also plans to launch an application management platform for colleges to collate online and offline applications. The platform will also be available to colleges that don't use their services. Motwani adds that the company targets colleges that want increase their student in-take, create awareness and keep their curriculum up-to-date. Founded by Anirudh Motwani and Parul Bansal in 2010, the company claims to provide information on more than 7,021 colleges out of which 1200 of them are maintained by the colleges and 45 of them are paid customers of the website. The website also claims to have processed over 50,000 college applications in 2013. Their clientele includes Alliance University, ICFAI, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam University, Jindal Global University, among others. IndiaCollegeSearch presently offers information on different colleges and universities in India, entrance exams, college news and other college events in the country. When we checked the website, we noticed that interested candidates can apply to different educational institutions through their website. People can also search for institutions based on the professional stream of their choice like management, hotel management, pharmacy, medical, law, among others. When we checked, we noticed that the website doesn't…
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