In July 2025, India-based edtech platform Toprankers officially launched Lighthouse, its new one-of-a-kind mentorship ecosystem designed for students and parents. Unlike generic test-prep tools, Lighthouse focuses on personalized career discovery, one-on-one mentorship, and holistic support for students from Grades 8 to 12.
The announcement was made at a press event held in Bengaluru, where Toprankers’ leadership emphasized the growing need for early-stage career clarity among Indian students. The Lighthouse platform will serve as a dedicated interface that connects students, parents, and trained mentors through a hybrid model of online and offline engagement.
With this move, Toprankers is now going beyond its stronghold in exam prep and moving into a broader, more human-centric space: career design and student development.
What exactly is “Lighthouse”?
Lighthouse is a subscription-based career discovery platform that:
- Offers personalized mentorship by experienced counselors and industry professionals
- Provides career mapping aligned with personality traits, academic aptitude, and market trends
- Conducts parental workshops to bridge generational gaps and address parental anxiety
- Builds soft skills such as public speaking, time management, and creative thinking
- Tracks student progress through long-term learning roadmaps
- Hosts live sessions, masterclasses, and guided community interactions
Lighthouse is designed not only to guide students through the career confusion prevalent in India’s K-12 system but also to involve parents as equal stakeholders in the student’s journey.
The platform also features a mobile app, dashboard, and a growing mentor network from fields such as law, design, management, data science, and journalism.
Why Toprankers Is Expanding Beyond Exam Prep?
Toprankers built its reputation as a high-performing test prep platform for careers in law, management, judiciary, and design. With over 3 million registered users and multiple product verticals like LegalEdge, Supergrads, and Judiciary Gold, the company has been a dominant force in competitive exam preparation.
But the Indian edtech landscape is shifting. Parents and students now want more than test scores. They are seeking:
- Clarity on “Which career is right for me?”
- Access to real-world mentorship rather than just automated videos
- Emotional and psychological support for decision-making
- A way to explore careers early, not just after 12th grade
This shift is precisely what Lighthouse aims to address. According to Toprankers’ CEO Gaurav Goel, “We are building a student-first ecosystem where clarity and confidence matter more than marks. Lighthouse is not about just choosing a stream, but designing your own trajectory.”
Market Signals Show India’s Students Are Ready for Guidance
India’s education system is witnessing a mental health and decision-making crisis among students. A growing body of research shows students are confused, anxious, and under-informed when choosing career paths.
A 2025 study by IC3 Institute revealed that 25% of students globally do not receive structured career guidance. Another report also found out that around 93% of Indian students are just aware of 7 career options.
In the same study, parents were cited as a primary source of pressure, often unaware of new-age career paths. This highlights the urgent need for a parent-inclusive mentorship framework, something Lighthouse is directly designed to solve.
Toprankers’ Strategic Shift: Education Meets Human Design
The Lighthouse platform is not just a product release. It reflects a philosophical evolution in how Toprankers views learning outcomes. From standard test-focused services, the company is moving toward identity-based learning and life design.
Here’s how Lighthouse fits into Toprankers’ broader strategy:
- Diversifies revenue beyond test prep and courses
- Increases customer lifecycle value by engaging students from Grade 8 onward
- Introduces offline mentorship hubs in major cities
- Builds data-driven career pathing tools that can evolve with AI
- Enhances parent-student trust and communication
Toprankers also confirmed that the platform will remain affordable and tier-2 city friendly, with pricing models tailored for Indian middle-class households.
How Lighthouse Differs from Other Edtech Mentorship Platforms?
Unlike global platforms like MasterClass or India’s own Unacademy mentorship programs, Lighthouse is:
- Built specifically for Indian school students
- Involves both students and parents simultaneously
- Offers long-term mentorship, not just one-off career quizzes
- Leverages Toprankers’ academic expertise in structured content delivery
- Focuses on mindset transformation, not just information dissemination
With its hybrid mentor model and proprietary “Discovery-to-Decision” journey, Lighthouse aims to be the first comprehensive career navigation stack for Indian Gen Z learners.
Edtech’s Next Battle: Contextual Learning vs. Mass Content
The edtech boom during COVID-19 was largely defined by video lectures, online tests, and recorded content. But as the pandemic subsided, so did enthusiasm for screen-heavy passive learning. Now, platforms like Toprankers are betting on human context, personalization, and emotional intelligence as the next edge.
Recent data from HolonIQ shows that student engagement in India has dropped drastically between 2022 and 2024 on pure-content platforms, while mentor-led sessions and live guidance showed significant improvement. Toprankers’ move into human-guided mentorship aligns with this macro trend, especially as career anxiety and burnout among students become national issues.
The Futurism Today Take: Why Lighthouse Matters Now
Heading: India’s Edtech 2.0 Begins With Listening, Not Streaming
At The Futurism Today, we see Lighthouse not as just another edtech release, but as a recalibration of what Indian education needs in the post-hype era.
While most platforms are still chasing test prep and engineering-track solutions, Toprankers is carving a parallel track rooted in curiosity, mentorship, and multi-stakeholder involvement. It is investing in the silent pain points of Indian students which are confusion, fear of the unknown, lack of role models and now turning them into a product experience.
This is where edtech must go next:
- Toward building human-first digital tools
- Toward creating bridges between parents, students, and educators
- Toward early decision-making, not last-minute cramming
With Lighthouse, Toprankers is making a bold statement: The future of education is not about having all the answers. It’s about asking the right questions as well.