CEO & Co-Founder, Edorer
Saurabh Gupta
He wants your degree to travel with you - across borders, across universities, across the rules everyone else accepts.
The founder who lists "coffee and pancakes" next to "rebel for life."
He wants your degree to travel with you - across borders, across universities, across the rules everyone else accepts.
The founder who lists "coffee and pancakes" next to "rebel for life."
Saurabh Gupta runs a company that treats the university the way a child treats a box of Lego. Pick a piece here, a piece there, snap them together, and build something the catalog never imagined. That company is Edorer, and Gupta is its CEO and co-founder.
The pitch is deceptively simple. A student chooses a home university, then reaches across a partner network to take courses from institutions on other continents - online or on-campus - and earns credits that actually count back home. Edorer calls this academic freedom. Gupta calls himself a rebel for insisting on it.
Today the platform spans more than 200 universities and 150 enterprises, operates in over 30 countries, and has run upward of five million AI-proctored exams for two million-plus learners. It is, underneath the mission language, serious infrastructure: a learning management system, an assessment engine, a proctoring layer, and a blockchain credits exchange in the works. The rebellion has a backend.
Before the manifesto, there was the math. Gupta trained as an engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - the kind of place that selects for people who like hard problems and dislike being told a thing cannot be done. The second instinct turned out to be the more important one.
He did not go straight into building software for universities. He went into the messy adjacent world of talent: figuring out who is good at what, and how you prove it. He co-founded Campus to Corporate, which pushed technology into skills assessments across engineering campuses in India. He founded TalentGrids, which was acquired by an Indian education group. He co-founded Talent For Work. Each venture circled the same stubborn question - how do you measure and move human potential without a passport, a pedigree, or a postcode getting in the way.
Somewhere in there he picked up a Harvard credential in digital communication and media, tinkering with HarvardX and the university's media lab. The combination is unusual: an IIT engineer's appetite for systems and a media person's instinct that the story matters as much as the schema. It shows in how he talks about Edorer. He does not sell features. He sells freedom.
He also keeps one foot in the academy's plumbing. As a co-founder, board member, and director of partnerships at the World Assessment Council, Gupta sits inside a network that supports more than 100,000 educators worldwide. It is a useful vantage point for someone trying to convince universities to do something they are structurally allergic to: share students.
A student enrolls at a home university - the anchor for their record and their degree.
Through the partner network, they take courses from universities abroad, online or on-campus, including short bootcamps.
CredX, a decentralized blockchain-based credits exchange, records and transfers those credits so they stack into a real credential.
The unglamorous part is what makes it real. Edorer ships an AI-enabled LMS, proctoring with face tracking and lockdown monitoring, psychometric and technical assessments, coding evaluations across 50+ languages, and hackathon tooling. It waves the right flags for Indian higher education - NAAC, UGC, NEP 2020 - and counts names like NetApp, HSBC, and Parul University among its users. Idealism wrapped around an enterprise spine.
Co-founds Campus to Corporate, wiring technology into skills assessments across Indian engineering campuses.
Founds TalentGrids, later acquired by an Indian education group.
Co-founds Talent For Work and joins the board of the World Assessment Council (100,000+ educators).
Co-founds Edorer and steps in as CEO.
Edorer launches in earnest; work begins on the CredX blockchain credits exchange.
Raises a roughly $250K Seed round to push the borderless-university thesis.
Runs Edorer Masterclass sessions with academics including Dr. Wieger Wamelink.
Universities are some of the oldest institutions humans still run, and they behave like it. A credit earned in one place rarely travels cleanly to another. A course you want is locked behind the campus you happened to get into. The system rewards where you started more than what you can do. Gupta finds this offensive, and he is not subtle about it.
So the rebellion is targeted. Not against universities themselves - he is busy signing 200 of them up - but against their borders. The blockchain piece, CredX, is the part most likely to outlive the slogans: a neutral ledger where a course in one country becomes a verifiable, transferable credit in another. Get that plumbing right and "academic freedom" stops being a phrase on a slide and becomes a default setting.
Whether it works at the scale he imagines is an open question. Internationalizing the university is a graveyard of good intentions. But Gupta has the useful trait of having already built and sold things in this space, which means he knows the difference between a manifesto and a migration path. He is trying to ship both.