India, Sept. 16 -- Keeping its acquisition streak alive, edtech giant BYJU's has acquired US-based coding platform Tynker. As per Inc42 sources, Byju Raveendran led edtech decacorn has acquired Tynker for around $200 Mn. As part of the deal, Tynker's founder Krishna Vedati, Srinivas Mandyam and Kelvin Chong will remain in their roles and will continue carrying Tynker's day to day operations.

Founded in 2012, Tynker is a K-12 creative coding platform that enables students to develop coding skills to design and power animations, games, music, robots and drones, smart devices, virtual worlds and more. The startup claims that its coding curriculum has been used by one in three K-8 schools in the US, 100,000 schools globally, and over 60 mill...