Medly AI Raises £1.7M to Give Every GCSE and A-Level Student an AI Revision Tutor

Medly AI, a UK education technology company, has raised £1.7 million from Ada Ventures and EKA Ventures to develop its AI-powered revision and tutoring platform for secondary school students preparing for GCSE, A-Level, and IB examinations. The platform provides students with personalised, on-demand AI tutoring that adapts to their individual knowledge gaps, explains concepts in multiple ways, and provides the kind of targeted, iterative practice that private tutors deliver — at a fraction of the cost of one-to-one human tuition.

Private tutoring has become one of the most significant drivers of educational inequality in the UK. Families who can afford regular private tuition give their children a meaningful advantage in examination preparation — access to expert explanation, personalised practice, and immediate feedback that classroom teaching cannot provide at scale. Families who cannot afford it must rely entirely on schools, self-study, and whatever free online resources are available. This creates a structural gap in attainment that correlates closely with socioeconomic background, and which has become more pronounced as examination pressure has increased and as gaps in classroom provision have widened.

Medly AI's platform uses large language models and structured pedagogy to replicate the core benefits of private tutoring in a digital product that any student with a smartphone or computer can access. The AI tutor can explain any topic on the GCSE, A-Level, or IB curriculum, answer follow-up questions, identify where a student's understanding has a gap, generate targeted practice questions, mark answers and explain mistakes, and adapt its explanations to the student's demonstrated level and learning style. Unlike static revision resources — textbooks, revision guides, past papers — the AI tutor is interactive and responsive, allowing students to work through their specific points of confusion rather than passively reviewing material they may already understand.

Ada Ventures and EKA Ventures both invest with an emphasis on companies that address systemic inequalities alongside generating commercial returns. The funding will be used to develop the platform's AI tutoring capabilities, build out subject coverage across the full examination curriculum, and grow the student user base.

Sources

• Medly AI — company website