Physicswallah was originally incorporated at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India as ‘Physicswallah Private Limited’, a private limited company under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 with the Registrar of Companies, Uttar Pradesh at Kanpur, pursuant to a certificate of incorporation dated June 6, 2020, issued by the Registrar of Companies, Central Registration Centre. Upon the conversion of the company into a public limited company, pursuant to a resolution passed by the Board of Directors dated December 11, 2024, and a Shareholders’ resolution dated December 13, 2024, the name of the company was changed to ‘Physicswallah Limited’, and a fresh certificate of incorporation dated January 8, 2025 was issued by the Registrar of Companies, Central Processing Centre.

It offers test preparation courses for competitive examinations, and other courses such as for upskilling. Its channels of delivery include - (i) online, which includes its social media channels, website and apps; (ii) tech-enabled offline centers (where its faculty conducts live classes in a physical center); or (iii) hybrid centers (its two-teacher model where a student attends a live online classes at a physical center and can benefit from another faculty that is present at the center to resolve questions and participate in revision classes). It also has a significant offline presence among education companies in India in terms of offline revenue.

It has sought to cultivate its student community by offering quality education. It provides content using engaging and tech-enabled pedagogy (which means teaching methodologies). Further, a large portion of its materials and courses are available in an open access or free format on YouTube channels, with an option for students to sign up for free or paid courses on its website or its mobile applications. It started its operations by offering courses online and has expanded to multiple channels of delivery - online, offline and hybrid. It aims to leverage its proprietary technology stack to provide content at scale, integrates new offerings successfully, and offers tech-backed tools to students and teachers for planning coursework, solving questions, grading tests, leading to efficient pedagogy.

It offers the option to students to pay the course fee in installments for some of its higher priced courses. It also provides options for students to avail loans from third-party financial institutions to sign up for its courses. It has tied up with a few financial companies in India who provide services related to student financing. It only facilitates students to connect with financing institutions for loans and does not provide any loans to students directly.

Business area of the company

Physicswallah together with its subsidiaries (‘the Group’) has presence primarily in India and UAE. The principal activities of the Group and its associate consist of the business of education by providing online and offline coaching and study material for test preparation of various competitive exams such as NEET, JEE, MBA, UPSC, GATE, CA, etc.

Awards, accreditations and recognition

• 2022: Received award in “D2C category” from Exchange 4 Media.
• 2023: Received Diamond Play button from YouTube upon surpassing 10 million subscribers to the “Physics Wallah - Alakh Pandey” channel.
• 2023: Received an award for “Digiplus - Education” at Vishwas Diwas - the celebration of trust” from Economics Times.
• 2024: Awarded “CIA implementation in DevOps” by Quantic at 4th annual India Devops Show, 2024.
• 2024: Received the “Best Education Brands” award from Economic Times
• 2024: Received the “Startup of the Year - Education” award from Economic Times.
• 2024: Received the “Ed-tech appreciation” award from the Confederation of Indian Industry (“CII”) at the CII Unicorn Summit.
• 2024: Received an award for “Strategic Excellence in Customer-centric Leadership” from Quantic.
• 2024: Received the “Most Promising Ed-Tech skilling Company of the Year” award at the 5th Education Leaders Conclave and Awards, Dubai, UAE.
• 2024: Received an award for “Excellence in AI Implementation in Education” for “Alakh AI” from Economic Times at the Economic Times Education Excellence Awards.
• 2024: Received the “Indian Digital Marketing - Best Data Driven Marketing Strategy” award from Exchange 4 Media.

History and milestones

• 2020: Incorporation of the company.
• 2020: Launched the digital e-learning app on play store “Physics Wallah”.
• 2020: Launched courses for JEE and NEET category.
• 2021: Launched its first Pathshala center in New Delhi, Delhi, India.
• 2021: Commenced business of publication and sale of study material books.
• 2022: Launched its first Vidyapeeth center in Kota, Rajasthan, India.
• 2021: Launched first “PhysicsWallah National Scholarship Admission Test”, operated in online and offline formats.
• 2021: Launched the digital e-learning app “Physics Wallah” on iOS.
• 2021: Launched its website “pw.live”.
• 2023: Acquisition of it Subsidiaries, namely, “Xylem Learning Private Limited” and “Utkarsh Classes & Edutech Private Limited”.
• 2024: Launched “AI Guru” which is an AI backed tool that provides personalized support to students for queries in the form of text, image, and audio responses.
• 2025: Memorandum of Understanding with an association to provide educational support to the families of Central Reserve Police Force personnel.
• 2025: Partnered with Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University with an aim to offer regular online classes and real-time doubt resolution facilities to students.