EdTech
Medly Raises $8M for AI-Powered Tutoring Expansion
Medly is building for students who want the kind of personalised academic support traditionally associated with private tutoring, without making that support dependent on what their families can afford. The London-based education platform combines AI tutoring, exam practice, personalised feedback and handwriting recognition to help students prepare for qualifications including GCSEs, A-Levels, IB, AP and […]
The First AI-Native Generation Needs More Than Better Prompts
Children are learning how to ask AI for answers. The harder challenge is teaching them to question its outputs, verify information, improve weak results, and take responsibility for what they create. The first AI-native generation is already sitting in classrooms. College Board research found that 84% of US high school students were using generative AI […]
The AI School Everyone Says Fired Its Teachers Actually Did Something Smarter
Alpha School, the $40,000-a-year private chain often described as “replacing teachers with AI,” did not remove its educators. It split the teacher’s job in two, handed the content delivery to AI, and freed the humans to do the part machines can’t. It is a distinction that sounds like semantics, and is actually a preview of […]
imagi Raises $4.5M to Build the Safe AI Layer Between Frontier Tools and K-12 Schools
Edtech company imagi has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by Brighteye Ventures and Day One Capital to bring structured, supervised AI learning into K-12 classrooms. The oversubscribed round, announced on 23 July 2026, also drew will.i.am, FemInvest, and We Are Human, the fund led by Kahoot’s founders. The company already reaches more than […]