India, Feb. 18 -- Higher education counselling startup Leverage Edu has raised $6.5 Mn in a Series A funding round led by Tomorrow Capital, with existing investors Blume Ventures and DSG Consumer Partners also participating in the round.

With the new funding, Piyush Surana of Tomorrow Capital will become a board member at Leverage Edu.

Besides this, Leverage Edu also launched Univalley.com, an operating system (OS) that universities and recruitment partners can use to recruit students. With Univalley, Leverage claims to have over 225 university partners in 13 countries and more than 500 small business partners which the company calls 'Mohalla Rockstars', who can help students on a local level. These partners are present in 42 Indian cit...