• UAE-based edtech oktopi, has fully acquired UK-based tutoring platform Tutor House.
• Founded in 2021 by Emilie Thomas and Fadi Abbas, oktopi offers a platform to institutions and educators to create online courses.  
• Tutor House was founded in 2012 by Alex Dyer and boasts 20,000 tutors on its platform. The acquisition is intended to fuel oktopi’s expansion and operations in Europe and the Mena region. 

Press release:

oktopi Edutech Ltd, owner of the oktopi workspace solution for education, announced its full acquisition of Tutor House, a leading UK-based tutoring platform. The move accelerates oktopi’s presence and operations in Europe and Mena, and positively contributes to the advancement of digital learning and education. 

“This acquisition is a natural fit to our vision of empowering educators and learners anytime, anywhere.” says Emilie Thomas, Co-founder of oktopi. 

She goes on to explain: “We are now able to provide learning and teaching communities with the best end-to-end, flexible and intelligent workspace solution for education, with management and growth assistance tools. Giving educators and institutions the flexibility to build their own journeys, being offline, online, or hybrid in a fast changing world, will help them being relevant and fully equipped to succeed in their digital transformation. On the student side, it is all about impact and access to educators they can relate to and trust, while being mobile and tech relevant. oktopi will now help learners find dedicated educators who have the right tools to help them in their learning objectives, all in a ‘school in your pocket’ solution. This will also give many families and communities the flexibility to design their own co-learning spaces or pods, in a world where location, financial and time freedom are more and more important.” 

Through this acquisition, oktopi will gain access to the services of a 20,000-strong cohort of tutors. They will be benefiting from the workspace’s innovative and cutting-edge technologies, to better expand their businesses and grow their reach and visibility, while focusing on making an impact on their students. 

“We are thrilled to join oktopi!” states Alex Dyer, Founder and CEO of Tutor House and future Head of Tutorspace at oktopi. 

He adds that “Our team is passionate about innovative education and tutoring, and we are ready to embark in oktopi’s mission, with a shared vision of making a real difference for passionate educators and a new generation of highly connected students.”