London’s MyEdSpace, a number one on-line schooling platform, declares as we speak that it has raised €12.8 million in Sequence A funding to rent extra academics, introduce new topics and develop its AI-powered studying instruments to create a fair higher expertise for college students.
The spherical was led by White Star Capital with participation from Educapital, Emerge, Lively Companions and Coalition Capital.
Sean Hirons, Co-founder of MyEdSpace, mentioned: “We got down to mix one of the best academics, main expertise, and the ability of social media to construct a platform that delivers the schooling that younger folks need and deserve. Our mannequin makes studying reasonably priced and ends the postcode lottery of accomplishment.
“With this funding and the help of our buyers, we will take the subsequent step in making world-class schooling accessible to each baby within the UK, and now within the US. It brings us one step nearer to with the ability to present free entry for each UK baby on free faculty meals, which we set as a long-term firm aim.”
This Sequence A for MyEdSpace slots it among the many extra bold mid-stage EdTech raises in Europe thus far in 2025. In distinction, many friends stay in earlier rounds (e.g. Edumentors’ €1.7 million seed) or are securing later-stage tickets (e.g. Knowunity’s €27 million Series B) to scale current traction.
MyEdSpace’s increase is notable each in dimension and in ambition: hiring instructing employees, increasing topic choices, and introducing AI options suggests a hybrid mix of human-delivered stay studying and tech augmentation.
Its deliberate enlargement into the U.S. equally aligns with the cross-border scaling development seen in different European EdTechs (e.g. Evulpo, PyxiScience). Taken collectively, MyEdSpace is shifting on the increased finish of European EdTech momentum in 2025, pushing from Seed/early-stage development right into a extra capital-intensive scaling part.
Nicholas Shares, Basic Companion at White Star Capital, added: “The schooling system is struggling – there aren’t sufficient academics, and the attainment hole between these with entry to non-public tuition or education and people with out continues to widen.
“MyEdSpace is reworking the best way younger folks be taught by combining excellent academics with scalable expertise. They’re serving to to bridge the divide and widen entry to world-class schooling, and we’re proud to again the workforce as they broaden throughout the UK and into the US.”
Since launching in 2022, MyEdSpace has supported greater than 16,000 college students. In 2025, 51% of its GCSE Maths college students achieved grades 7–9, more than triple the national average.
Co-founders Sean Hirons and Kharis Yanakidis, each from households the place schooling was the highest precedence, left finance to construct the platform they wished they’d at college.
The increase follows a notable interval of development, together with the corporate’s first stay lesson in the US. MyEdSpace is now scaling its UK mannequin throughout the Atlantic, with first programs beginning in October this yr.
Whereas the standard schooling system faces trainer shortages, finances pressures and an unregulated tutoring market, MyEdSpace presents a distinct method.
Its academics, allegedly chosen from the highest 1% within the UK, ship stay classes to hundreds of youngsters directly. They’ve constructed a following of greater than 4 million throughout social media, often breaking down complicated ideas in codecs that college students already interact with every single day.
This mannequin permits MyEdSpace to offer high-quality schooling at scale, with classes ranging from simply £5 an hour in comparison with a median of £37 for on-line tutoring.
