As artificial intelligence reshapes classrooms and tutoring platforms alike, Yazan Al Homsi has staked out a clear position: AI should support educators, not replace them. That philosophy is playing out at Edumentors, a UK-based tutoring marketplace in his investment portfolio that just announced it has crossed $4 million in cumulative sales with 1.8x year-over-year growth, a result the company attributes in part to its recent product changes.
Edumentors pairs students with tutors from top UK universities, including Cambridge and Oxford, and has delivered more than 200,000 tutoring hours globally to date. Rather than automating instruction outright, the company has introduced four new AI-powered tools designed to support tutor performance, streamline onboarding, and help structure individual learning paths, an approach that mirrors Al Homsi’s broader investment thesis across his portfolio of education and technology companies.
Al Homsi, a Dubai-based venture capitalist with a finance degree from McGill University and a CFA charter, spent years in senior positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers across the Middle East and North Africa before moving fully into venture investing. He now serves as principal of Catalyst Wire and Founders Round Capital, overseeing a portfolio that also includes Aduro Clean Technologies and Rocket Doctor AI.
The broader market appears to be moving in his direction. Global EdTech funding rose from $5.6 billion to $6.3 billion in 2024, with deal volume climbing from 915 to 1,153 transactions over the same period, according to industry data cited alongside the Edumentors announcement. For Al Homsi, Edumentors’ latest numbers, built on a foundation of more than 200,000 delivered tutoring hours, serve as another data point supporting his view that the most durable edtech companies will be the ones that use AI to strengthen, rather than sideline, the humans doing the teaching.