bengaluru bengalurubased technologyeducation company simplilearn has concluded a 15 million rs 95 crore series c round of funding led by mayfield fund with existing investors kalaari capital and helion venture partners participating in the round simplilearn has raised a total of 27 million rs 170 crore from investors so far simplilearn founded by technology professional krishna kumar six years ago offers a multitude of training and it certifications in areas like advanced cloud computing and six sigma through a combination of online classes and inperson workshops the company offers over 200 courses through its network of over 2000 qualified trainers we want to deploy the money to scale our business and invest in enhancing our technology platform traditionally we have been strong in certifications related to project management scrummaster big data and hadoop we will invest in diversifying our courseware that would include digital marketing said krishna kumar simplilearn is also setting up a studio in the us to create video content with the help of technologists and experts based there we have already trained 4 lakh people in the last five years currently we train about 20000 people every month and about 60 of them are from the us securityrelated certification is also becoming a key aspect in the us we are also looking at adding a lot of courses related to it security kumar said vishal dixit partner at mayfield funds advisor mf advisors said simplilearn is a company with a strong management team and we believe it offers young professionals a powerful commercial and social proposition there is an increasing acceptance for virtual learning and simplilearn has a differentiated play with a sharp focus on offering it training and certification