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Byju’s acquires Tynker edtech firm as part of U.S. expansion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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India’s Byju’s has agreed to acquire creative coding platform Tynker as it continues its expansion into edtech and educational games in the United States.

The Bengaluru, India-based company has grown to more than 100 million students with its kids educational games platform, and it has been on a buying spree as it expands well beyond India’s borders. The company didn’t disclose the purchase price for Mountain View, California-based Tynker, but it was in the “nine figures.” Other press reported the price was $200 million.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.