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Founder story
He found his way out of a hostel on page six of Google
Carlo Weaver left school with no GCSEs and was homeless at 15. He is now building the apprenticeship directory he needed at 16.
№ 206 · 8 September 2026
Pricing
Pocket Prep's $20 price was laughed at. Nine years on it holds
Peter Murphy started Pocket Prep with $1,800 and priced exam practice at $20 a month. A prospective partner found that funny; on Inc.'s account, the cheap price became the hard part to copy.
№ 187 · 4 September 2026
Startup news
Medly raises $8m seed for AI exam tutoring
Felix Capital led a €6.89m round in the London platform, which says it has passed 400,000 UK users 18 months after launch. Two former NHS doctors run it.
№ 105 · 20 August 2026
Founder profile
Ex-principal took hundreds of meetings to raise $63m
Adeel Khan had no Stanford degree, no Google badge and no business plan. He says he had to make MagicSchool AI's user numbers impossible to argue with instead.
№ 38 · 9 August 2026