British online tutoring platform Edumentors has secured €1.7 million in Seed investment to build Edu AI – aiming to change how education is delivered to school students and make high-quality education accessible at scale.
The round was led by Magna Investments, an Abu Dhabi-based VC fund. The round was followed by leading angels from the UK and 10+ countries.
“We believe every student deserves a world-class education, no matter their location or social background. With our new AI tutor – Edu AI, we’re opening doors for hundreds of millions of students to get access to the highest quality individual tutoring,” said Tornike Asatiani, Founder & CEO of Edumentors.
Founded in 2022, Edumentors connects children with top-performing students from elite UK universities like Oxford and Cambridge. These student-tutors bond with children emotionally and teach them in a language kids understand. Seeing the tutor as a role model, someone to trust and follow, is what the company says makes their tutoring model “superior to other tutoring platforms“.
Tutoring services available on Edumentors have helped thousands of students across 35 countries. According to Edumentors, 98% of parents reported seeing significant improvement in their children’s academic performance.
Now, with the help of Edu AI, they are planning to take that same mission further, making world-class tutoring freely available.
Despite the rapid development of AI, the company says access to quality education still remains a challenge. Experienced tutors charge high prices. As a result, current costs and limited human resources make personalised tutoring an expensive service that families miss out on.
Edu AI is designed to adapt to the student’s personal needs, teach any subject, break down complex topics, and engage in human-like interactions through facial expressions and body language analysis.
Edu AI will have allegedly the ability to:
- Break down subjects into sub-topics and build a Learning Map that’s easy to digest and allows tracking progress.
- Utilise human-like characters to build long-term trust with learners and guide them.
- Recreate a real teaching experience with diagrams, whiteboards, notes, and on-screen exercises.
- Most importantly, understand the non-verbal cues of the student and react accordingly, as a professional teacher would.
According to data provided by Edumentors, the global online tutoring market is projected to reach €23.1 billion with 14.5% annual growth, yet it is dwarfed by the size of the market AI tutoring will unlock.
The funding will be used to accelerate the growth of the platform’s existing human-to-human tutoring model while investing in R&D to bring new products to the market. Edumentors has already sold 100,000 lessons and will continue to accumulate knowledge and data to build their AI tutor.
While this Seed round will primarily be used for market expansion and AI development, Edumentors plans a larger Series A round to enter the U.S. market.
“Since its launch in 2022, Edumentors has held a unique niche in online education. It connects high-achieving student-tutors from top universities with children in need. While most companies overlook this talent-pool, Edumentors built a brand around them and already made over $3 million in sales. Given the growth rate and ambition with AI, Edumentors has the opportunity to become the next unicorn in education,” said Richard Hargreaves.
Edumentors has already introduced 3 AI tools to the market: Exam marking AI tool, AI Avatar parent influencer, and AI Tutor Training module for tutors. Next are Edu AI and AI Co-pilot to take online education to the next level.
Development of Edu AI will allow Edumentors to break out of the traditional tutoring market and tap into a new sector.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/08/londons-edumentors-raises-e1-7-million-to-build-the-worlds-first-human-ai-tutor/
