NextGen
Company Profile · 2026Building an ecosystem · in sequence

Empowering the Next Generation
of Thinkers.

NextGen is an Indian education ecosystem in the making. Today, that means an AI SaaS suite — eight products across four verticals, one already live. Tomorrow it means a chain of franchise schools, a publication arm, and adjacent ventures we haven’t announced yet.

Pillars
Four
Live Today
Synapse · SaaS
In Development
7 SaaS products
Planned Next
Academy · Publication
NEXTGEN · MASTER MARKv1.0
01 · About

The whole ecosystem, sequenced.

SaaS today · Academy & Publication next · More to follow

NextGen exists to empower the next generation of thinkers — and to do that across the full arc of how a thinker is made: the doubt resolved at 11pm, the classroom that took her seriously, the textbook she returned to in college, the platform that helped her land her first job.

We’re building that arc one pillar at a time. The SaaS arm is live and shipping — eight AI products across education, exams, talent, and lifestyle, with Synapse already in the hands of students. The Academy and Publication pillars are next. More will follow once each pillar earns the right to be expanded.

Mission

Empower the next generation of thinkers — through software today, through schools and books tomorrow, through whatever serves them best after that.

Discipline

We open one pillar, ship inside it, and only then open the next. Each pillar reinforces the one before — schools need publications, publications need platforms, platforms need classroom feedback.

02 · Roadmap

Sequenced expansion.

The same brand mark anchors every step. We open one pillar, ship inside it, and only then open the next.

  1. In Development

    Nextgen Olympiad

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    Class 3–10

    Twenty questions. Twenty minutes. Every single day.

  2. In Development

    NextGen CBSE

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    Class 6–12

  3. In Development

    NextGen ICSE

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    Class 6–12

  4. In Development

    NextGen Foundation

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    JEE & NEET · Class 6–10

  5. In Development

    NextGen JEE & NEET

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    Class 11 & 12

  6. In Development

    NextGen Kids

    Coming Soon/ NextGen SaaS · EduSuite

    Early learners · Class 1–5

    Learn · Grow · Excel.

  7. Planning · 2027

    NextGen Academy

    / Schools · franchise model

    K–12 chain school brand · franchise-only operation

  8. Planned

    NextGen Publication

    / Publishing

    Textbooks · learning materials · journals

  9. Future

    Adjacent ventures

    / Future

    More SaaS verticals and the next thing the ecosystem needs

03 · The Four Pillars

One brand. Four pillars.

Each pillar is a different shape of business — software, schools, books, and what comes next — sharing a single mark and a single standard.

● Active
NextGenSaaS

Live & shipping

Eight AI products across four verticals — education, exams, talent, and lifestyle. Synapse is live; the rest are in active development.

What’s inside
  • EduSuite
  • ExamSuite
  • TalentSuite
  • LifeSuite
Planned
NextGenAcademy

Planned · franchise model

A K–12 chain school brand built around the NextGen pedagogy. Franchise-only — we license curriculum, training, and the mark to operators who can meet the standard.

What’s inside
  • K–12
  • Olympiad track
  • Academy curriculum
  • Franchise ops
Planned
NextGenPublication

Planned · publishing arm

Textbooks, problem sets, and a periodic journal — first written for our SaaS classrooms and Academy schools, then licensed externally.

What’s inside
  • Textbooks
  • Problem sets
  • Journals
  • Licensing
Future
NextGenVentures

Future · adjacent

More SaaS verticals and adjacent businesses the ecosystem needs as it grows. We’ll announce them when they ship — not before.

What’s inside
  • More SaaS
  • Adjacent ventures
  • Strategic bets
04 · Leadership

The people behind it.

NextGen is the realisation of a dream Dhananjay Kumar has carried for fourteen years — built one school, one Olympiad, one tribal-region camp at a time. Samarendra Ch. Deb brings the modern AI capabilities, shaped by three decades of public service, that let that dream operate at the scale India needs. Together, they are what AI in Indian education should look like.

Portrait of Dhananjay Kumar, FounderFOUNDER

Dhananjay Kumar

Founding vision · Educationist, 14+ years

Educate India — reach every learner, in the most affordable way.

Dhananjay is on a mission to make quality education and data-driven skills accessible to every student, no matter where they come from. With over fourteen years in the education sector — beginning with a residential preparatory centre he opened in Motihari, East Champaran — he has worked closely with students preparing for competitive exams like Sainik School, Navodaya Vidyalayas, RIMC, and RMS. Through this work he came to a simple realisation: talent is everywhere — but guidance is not.

That realisation led him to build platforms and initiatives focused not just on teaching, but on transforming lives through discipline, clarity, and opportunity. Today he runs three schools across Haryana, Rajasthan, and Bihar, organises Olympiads and competitive examinations to build confidence, and for the past seven years has worked in tribal-dominated regions under government-supported initiatives — running educational camps and awareness programs that connect tribal communities to mainstream education. Having mentored hundreds of students, his vision is simple: an ecosystem where education isn't limited by money or background, but driven by passion and equal opportunity. With the right another founder and the right technology, that vision has finally arrived at NextGen — because, as Dhananjay puts it, one right opportunity can change an entire life.

14+ yrs
Education leadership
3 schools
Haryana · Rajasthan · Bihar
7 yrs
Tribal-region outreach
Portrait of Samarendra Ch. Deb, FounderFOUNDER

Samarendra Ch. Deb

Modern AI capabilities · DSP (Retd.), Tripura Police

Reach every Indian faster — with cutting-edge AI, in the most affordable way.

Samarendra served more than four decades in the Tripura Police, rising from Constable to Deputy Superintendent. His career spanned the Special Branch, the CID, and the Tripura State Rifles — work the President's office recognised twice, with the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2002 and Distinguished Service in 2013.

Born into a lower-middle-class family and educated at Calcutta University, he chose duty over comfort early. Across decades of policing, what struck him most were the young people he encountered — bright minds in remote districts who had textbooks but no mentorship, ambition but no roadmap. After retirement, he saw in artificial intelligence what he had searched for his entire career: a force multiplier capable of reaching every district, every classroom, every forgotten corner of the country. He joined NextGen to bring those modern AI capabilities to a mission already in motion — one Dhananjay had been building, school by school, for over a decade.

40+ yrs
Tripura Police service
2002
President's Police Medal · Meritorious Service
2013
President's Police Medal · Distinguished Service
05 · Principles

How we build.

Six convictions that decide what gets built, what doesn’t, and for whom. They predate the product roadmap.

  • Principle I

    Real people first

    We build AI for the actual end-user — the student in Tripura, the UPSC aspirant, the first-time job seeker, the household planning their first home. If it doesn't help them, we don't ship it.

  • Principle II

    Communities, not just corporations

    Enterprise budgets shouldn't be the price of admission to AI. Our products are priced and designed for individuals and small institutions, not for procurement teams.

  • Principle III

    One pillar at a time

    Synapse is live; the rest of the SaaS suite is in active development. The Academy and Publication pillars open only after the SaaS pillar has earned the right. We'd rather one thing be loved than four be tolerated.

  • Principle IV

    Practical over impressive

    We don't chase benchmarks. The win is whether a Class 10 student gets her doubt resolved at 11pm, or a job seeker gets past an ATS filter — measurable in their lives, not on a leaderboard.

  • Principle V

    Public-service ethic

    NextGen was founded by a thirty-year career civil servant. The expectation that you are accountable to the people you serve is not a marketing line — it's how every pillar of the brand is run.

  • Principle VI

    Built in India, for India first

    Indian syllabi, Indian exams, Indian languages, Indian price points. Global expansion can come later. Solving here, where we live, comes first.

06 · Capabilities

What we do well.

The same four capabilities show up across the SaaS suite today — and will carry into the Academy and Publication pillars when they open. The standard moves with the brand.

8products

Across four suites

4verticals

Education · Exams · Talent · Lifestyle

1live

Synapse, in market today

7in dev

Active builds, sequenced

Automation AI

Workflows that turn repeat work — lesson planning, paper generation, candidate shortlisting — into one-click outputs.

Analytics & Insights

Behaviour-aware dashboards: where students struggle, which doubts recur, which candidates actually fit.

Cloud Infrastructure

Built cloud-native from day one. Elastic, multi-tenant, and ready to serve real Indian usage patterns at scale.

Fast & Secure Platform

Tuned for Indian network conditions and devices. Encryption, authentication, and data hygiene by default.

07 · Contact

Talk to a human.

Every message lands in an inbox the founder reads. We aim to respond within one working day — usually faster on WhatsApp.

NextGen

Empowering the Next Generation of Thinkers.

SaaS today. Schools and publication next. Built in India, for India first.

  • General & business

    Product enquiries, demo requests, press, and anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.

    Phone+91 79755 37072
  • WhatsApp

    The fastest way to reach us. Same number as the office line — message, don't call.

    HoursMon–Sat · 10:00–19:00 IST
  • Synapse — for students & parents

    Trying out our live AI learning product? This is the support channel.

    TelegramAI Exam Prep — free channel
  • Growth Partner Program

    Earn 10–25% on referrals. Payouts in 15 days. Open to creators, coaching centres, and tutors.

    Payout10–25% · 15-day cycle