Pramod Damodaran, Co-founder, HeadStreamTechnologies
Profential, a digital credential platform from US/Chennai-based edtech start-up Headstream Technologies, is on track to partner with over 600 organizations in the next 18 months.
The platform permits scholastic organizations to acknowledge trainees with digital tokens for all accomplishments, both scholastic and extracurricular.
Presently the business has actually partnered with universities like Panimalar Engineering College, School of Management DG Vaishnav College and Jaya College of Engineering and Technology in India and the University of Michigan and other K-12 schools in the United States to use the platform to their trainees. In all, the business has collaboration with 16 school districts and universities in the United States therefore count 5 college organizations in India.
According to the co-founder Pramod Damodaran, unlike standard file storage platforms like DigiLocker, Profential is developed to surpass simply being an easy repository of certificates. “We wish to develop a community where trainee accomplishments beyond simply marksheets and degrees, however a broader variety of abilities and achievements, can be recorded, shared, and confirmed,” he stated.
Possible qualifications
The start-up’s group deals with organizations and recommends possible qualifications for occasions noted in the college’s calendar. Following this, a repository of predefined qualifications is developed, and the professors in charge is allowed to provide particular qualifications. Trainees can then collect qualifications in a digital wallet and utilize the platform’s integrated resume developer to display accomplishments and share it with employers by means of QR codes.
“The qualifications will offer a confirmed recommendation to the type of activities the trainee has actually participated in and abilities that they have actually established as an outcome,” Damodaran stated.
He stated that while business have such wallets internally for worker skilling programs, Profential is the only Indian platform that is student-centric with qualifications and profile contractors for K-12 and college.
“With quick digitisation in India, we see big capacity for this market, and given that there aren’t lots of considerable Indian rivals, we are anticipating an early-mover benefit in the Indian education community,” he included.
Released on October 26, 2025
