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 SAT.

The company has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Felix Capital, with participation from existing investors Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures. Angel investors Andrey Dobrynin, Al Giles, Jean Hammond and Hector Mason also joined the round. Medly plans to use the capital to expand its UK student community, grow internationally, strengthen its AI capabilities and continue researching how the platform affects academic outcomes.

Medly was founded by Dr Paul Jung and Dr Kavi Samra, longtime friends who studied medicine together at UCL before working in the NHS. Neither grew up with private tutoring, but both later worked as tutors while at university. That contrast helped shape Medly’s mission: make individual academic support available to students regardless of income or background.

Its technology is designed around learning rather than simply producing answers. Medly combines multiple large language models with approaches drawn from teaching theory and neuroscience, tracks how students are progressing, and adapts feedback around their performance. Students can answer practice questions, receive guidance on where marks were lost and work directly on the platform using handwriting recognition. The company is also developing proprietary models focused on marking and pedagogy.

Medly says it has already reached more than 400,000 UK users, while students spend around an hour a day on the platform on average. It has also launched SAT preparation in the US and plans to add AP and ACT support.

The larger test now is whether AI tutoring can become more than convenient revision software. Medly is trying to prove that personalised academic support can reach far more students without losing the guidance, challenge and individual attention that made private tutoring valuable in the first place.