Awards and Accolades

SME - Women Entrepreneur of the Year

It was a proud moment for Team Catalyze to be recognised and awarded "SME - Women Entrepreneur of the Year" at the SME empowering India Awards at New Delhi.

Catalyze is a pioneer in online education providing live interactive 1:1 personalized programs with expert faculty. Catalyze has a global presence with students in 40 countries.

Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy Founder & CEO; Mr. Sanjay Chandrasekhar, Co-Founder & COO and Ms. Preeti Rajagopal, Asst. Manager- Academics - Catalyze Center for Learning receiving winner trophy in the category "SME - Women Entrepreneur of the Year" from Shri. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Hon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India & Mrs. Juuhi Rajput - MD, Arrucus Media Pvt. Ltd.

The Best Companies Award

It is indeed a proud moment for Catalyze! Catalyze received "The Best Companies award" at the Education 2.0 conference in Dubai. Our journey of transforming Education through Personalization has been one of the 13years where we recognize, understand, and curate personalized programs for every learner according to our vision. "WE AIM TO TRANSFORM ALL LEARNERS TO ACHIEVE MORE THAN THEIR ASPIRATIONS THROUGH PERSONALIZED EDUCATION"! We are extremely happy to share this proud moment with our students, parents, and tutors.

Please click on the link below to hear Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy's Keynote address "TRANSFORMING EDUCATION THROUGH PERSONALIZATION" at the Education 2.0 conference in Dubai, UAE.
https://youtu.be/VHJap4NtJng

Iconic Women Leader Award

Catalyze Founder & CEO Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy received the Iconic Women Leader award from FAMA ASIA-GCC for Excellence & Leadership on September 4th, 2021.

Indian Education Awards 2020

Catalyze Congratulates it's students, tutors and co-ordinators on this Prestigious recognition of being the winner in Online Tutoring Catagory at the Indian Education awards 2020. It is indeed a proud moment for Team Catalyze.

Woman Super Achiever

It was a proud moment for Team Catalyze when our Founder & CEO Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy got recognized as a "Woman Super Achiever" at the World Women Leadership Congress and Awards held in Mumbai. It is a great Honor to be recognized among women Leaders in 75 countries. Congrats to Team Catalyze, the tutors, parents and students on this Recognition.

Leader of the Decade

Our Founder & CEO Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy was recognized by the Women Economic Forum as "Leader of the decade" in EdTech. Catalyze is a pioneer in EdTech with over a decade experience in providing Personalized Live Interactive Programs to students all over the world in school subjects, competitive exams and IT programming. Our Bespoke programs are sought after by students from various boards and curricula as we work with the learning curve of the student. Catalyze specializes in Home schooling especially for students in the Cambridge and IB stream.

Catalyze's vision is to transform all our Learners to achieve more than their aspirations through personalized education.

Catalyze Center for Learning recognized as Higher Education Review Top 10 Digital Learning Portals 2019

Dr. Rajashree and Mr. Sanjay Chandrasekhar started Catalyze in 2008. Dr. Rajashree is a scientist and worked on premier biotech companies like Biocon and Kemin Industries, where she later headed a strategic Business unit. Being a teacher at heart, she decided to launch Catalyze as she saw the problems that students faced. She has been the recipient of the Raising Digital Star award in 2015, and the League of Iconic Entrepreneur award conferred by the Women Economic Forum in 2016. She is the India Chairperson for online learning at ALL Ladies League and Women Economic Forum.

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Catalyze Center won the Student’s Choice Award 2015 & 2016

Catalyze Center won the Student’s Choice Award, 2016 for the best 11th and 12th coaching (PUC) and the Student’s Choice Award, 2015 for the Best Institute to give tutoring for Exam preparation. The awards were issued by Urban Pro, India’s favorite learning destination for hiring Tutors, Trainers and Training Institutes.

Catalyze Center for Learning: Preparing Students for a Successful Future

It was 1993 when Rajashree Krishnaswamy was pursuing her Master degree in Biochemistry and at the same time was a teaching assistant in Michigan State University, USA. As time passed, she graduated from college and found an opportunity to work with Biocon India. Later she joined Kemin Industries, USA. As a biotechnologist, she loved her job,but she always nurtured her passion for teaching. In 2004, she decided to pursue her PhD. During this period she had an opportunity to interact with students which helped widen her views on education. In the 14 year gap from 1993 to 2007 she realized that technology had changed the world in many ways. Read more...

Women Economic Forum (WEF)

Our Founder and CEO, Dr. Rajashree Presented her views on the education of tomorrow at the "Women Economic Forum" - European Union, Held in Den Haag.

The panel discussion was on "The Power of Education to create a positive change in the world." Her talk was about the journey of Catalyze Center and how online learning will impact the future of education.

She was among some very esteemed co panelists like:

Dr. Marie-Claude Machon Honore
BPW International Permanent Representative to UNESCO
France

Mariet Verhoef-Cohen
President, Women for Water Partnership (WfWP)
President, Elect Soroptimist International
Netherlands

Anila Hussain
Co-Founder & CEO at ShenAnnz
Switzerland

Catalyze Center for Learning has been a pioneer in personalized education using the "flipped class room" approach and has been a guiding light to many students across the globe.

The EntreprenHer Tour

Rajashree Krishnaswamy career was deeply linked to science. From research, she went to strategy in biotech. When she became a mother, she decided to go back to school and started a PhD, to have more flexible schedules and deepen her skills. She then discovered her passion for passing on academic skills.

Her father always used to tell her "you have the mindset of an entrepreneur and you are good at teaching, you should do something about it".

In 2008, she founded Catalyze Center for Learning which is an online platform connecting students with tutors. All the funds used to start her business came from her savings and she believes it provided a real sense of freedom . At the time she created the platform, it was not a widespread concept. Read more...

Start-Up India – Creating Entrepreneurial Energy

The "Start-up India" launch, that happened on January 16,2016, brought together several stake holders to stimulate dialogue on key challenges faced by the Indian startup ecosystem.This initiative is a significant step in the Government of India’s commitment to making India the hub of innovation, design and Start-ups. Read more...

Personalizing Education For Better Learning

A scientist turned edupreneur, Dr. Rajashree Krishnaswamy strongly believes in combining the power of education and technology. She feels that class room learning alone cannot cater to the individual pedagogical needs of students and this leads to lacunae in learning. "We are slowly shifting the culture from sit and learn to experience and learn", says Rajashree. Combining the best of both worlds, she founded Catalyze Center for Learning with a goal is to touch and impact the lives of thousands of children who are gifted in talent but are just in need of the right opportunities and the right mentors. Read more...