Vaidra
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Fact sheet
- Name
- Vaidra (legal name Vaidra Education)
- Founded
- 2024, by Venkata Anirudh Devireddy
- Founder & CEO
- Venkata Anirudh Devireddy
- Legal status
- Nonprofit corporation registered in Washington State (December 2025), federal EIN
- Based in
- Bellevue, Washington, USA; serves students in India
- What it offers
- Free audiobooks, video courses with quizzes, and research-paper explainers
- Catalog today
- 56 audiobooks, 79 courses, 5 research explainers
- Languages
- Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, English
- Partners
- Sevalaya, Rural Development Trust (RDT), SIET, SIETK, Zilla Parishad High School Kanchikacherla
- Partner reach
- 60,000+ students across 450+ schools in India: the combined student networks of Vaidra's school and NGO partners, as of October 2026
- Leadership
- Yug Maheshwari (COO), Aaroh (CTO), Jaanvi Patel (CMO); lead teachers Manas Jain and Sriman
- Website
- https://www.vaidra.org
- Media contact
- contact@vaidra.org
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Vaidra (legal name Vaidra Education) is a nonprofit founded in 2024 by Venkata Anirudh Devireddy, its Founder & CEO. It publishes free educational audiobooks, courses and research-paper explainers in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi and English, and is registered as a Washington State nonprofit corporation.
Vaidra works with school and NGO partners in India, including Sevalaya in Chennai and the Rural Development Trust in Anantapur, whose networks reach 60,000+ students across 450+ schools. Every resource is free, with no ads.
Founder
Venkata Anirudh Devireddy
Founder & CEO, Vaidra
Venkata Anirudh Devireddy founded Vaidra in 2024 to make learning possible in the languages students actually speak at home. Based in Bellevue, Washington, the founder built the platform end to end, from the website and volunteer system to the pipeline that publishes new audiobooks and courses in Indian languages every week, and leads the volunteer team and the school and NGO partnerships.
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