Kavi Samra
Kavi Samra is a British-Asian entrepreneur and co-founder of Medly AI, an EdTech platform using artificial intelligence and neuroscience to democratise access to high-quality GCSE and A-Level tutoring. Samra grew up in a low-income household in Slough and passed the 11+ exam to secure a place at a grammar school — an opportunity he credits as pivotal to his life trajectory. That early experience of educational inequality, and the outsized difference that structured academic support can make, became the founding motivation for Medly.
Samra studied medicine at University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 2021. After qualifying as an NHS doctor, he worked clinically before making the decision to leave medicine to pursue entrepreneurship. He and co-founder Paul Jung met at UCL and recognised a shared belief that the gap between students who received private tutoring and those who did not was one of the most consequential and fixable inequalities in the British education system.
Together, they developed Medly AI within the Hatchery startup incubator at BaseKX, UCL's entrepreneurship hub. The platform combines multiple specialised AI models with principles from neuroscience and established teaching theory to deliver a genuinely personalised curriculum-based tutoring experience. Unlike generic AI chatbots, Medly generates exam-board-specific practice papers, provides real-time marking, and tracks progress against individual curriculum points — effectively replicating the function of a private tutor for a fraction of the cost.
As COO of Medly AI, Samra leads operations and has been central to the company's rapid commercial growth. The platform has attracted over 30,000 monthly active users, with retention metrics comparable to Duolingo. Medly raised £1.7 million in seed funding led by Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures, with institutional backing from UCL, Innovate UK, Microsoft, and Google. Samra and Jung were invited to 10 Downing Street to brief the Prime Minister's advisers on AI's role in education.
