Raveendran Byju's app is the first Indian one to be funded by Facebook

Who would have thought that an education app would be India's first major breakthrough app? Turns out, Raveendran Byju, founder of Byju — an education app with over 30 million lessons already down its pocket — hedged his bets right. When on September 8, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative would be investing $50 million in Byju, Indian netizens hailed his achievement. After all, here was a Malayalam-medium schoolboy from a village called Azhikode, Kerela making his way into the big leagues.