tutoria GmbH

What tutoria GmbH does

tutoria GmbH is a privately held German education technology company headquartered in Munich and founded in 2007. The firmographic data identifies it as a web-based platform that offers individual tutoring services for students. Headcount is reported at 51-100 employees, and the company maintains a web presence at tutoria.de. It operates as a for-profit private entity with no public listing.

The company's funding history shows early-stage venture capital backing concentrated in its first three years of operation. Seed/Series 2 funding in July 2007 came from Global Founders Capital and HV Capital, with a follow-on Series 2 in February 2010 from Global Founders Capital and Team Global, and a Series 4 in August 2010 involving Holtzbrinck Digital. No post-2010 funding events are disclosed in the available data. Customer concentration, current revenue, pricing structure, leadership team, and ownership composition beyond early investors are not disclosed in the source material.

The source data also contains extensive content describing a much larger German tutoring operation (founded 1974, ~900 physical locations, 10,000+ teachers, 125,000 students coached annually) that does not map directly to tutoria's 51-100 employee scale. This content is treated here as category context rather than direct attributes of tutoria. As a web-delivered tutoring platform competing in a German private-tutoring market dominated by established physical-center networks, tutoria's specific market positioning, customer base, and unit economics cannot be precisely characterized from the available evidence.

Name

tutoria GmbH

Legal name

Studienkreis GmbH

Website

https://tutoria.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

tutoria GmbH is a Munich-based, privately held web tutoring platform founded in 2007 that delivers individual tutoring services to German students, supported by 51-100 employees and early-stage venture funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Tutoring Services

NAICS

Exam Preparation and Tutoring (611691), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Tutoring + Learning Content Platforms (Curriculum + Tutors) (EDANAGAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Tutoring & Homework Help Marketplaces (On-Demand) (EDAFAIAG), Asynchronous Tutoring (Q&A, Essay Review, Homework Help) Platforms (EDANAGAC)

Keywords

• Online tutoring services
• Individual tutoring
• Supplemental education
• Student learning platform
• Homework help

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Tutoring Services: Core revenue from tutoring lessons delivered in-person at local centers or online. Prices vary by location, frequency, and contract duration. Base price starting at €8.40 per 45-minute lesson for group tutoring with 12-month contract.
2. Specialized Courses: Exam preparation courses (Abitur, MSA), holiday courses, and VR language courses offered as one-time purchases or short-term packages.
3. Individual Tutoring: One-on-one tutoring sessions available for students with special requirements, priced at premium rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

tutoria GmbH runs a web-based platform that delivers individual tutoring services to students across all major school subjects and grade levels (1–13). Lessons are delivered in-person at physical tutoring centers, live online via video, and through supporting digital tools including a mobile app, learning portal, on-demand homework live-chat, and specialized courses for exam preparation, learning disabilities, and VR-based language learning. The platform is geared toward German school students and is complemented by state-funded tutoring access (Bildung und Teilhabe) for eligible families.

Product overview

Studienkreis operates a multi-channel tutoring platform offering in-person tutoring at ~900 locations, online tutoring, and mobile app-based learning (Nachhilfe to go). The core offering is small-group tutoring (3-5 students) for all subjects from grades 1-13, supplemented by specialized services including LRS/Dyskalkulie courses, exam preparation, holiday courses, and VR language courses. Digital add-ons include a learning portal, live homework chat, and a mobile app—all included free with enrollment. The company also integrates with Germany's Bildungs-Teilhabe state funding program for free tutoring to eligible families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• In-person Tutoring (Nachhilfe vor Ort)

Quantifiable outcome

• 91.7% of students improve by at least one grade
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• GoStudentminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGoStudent partnership powers Studienkreis's free trial lesson program. Customers who request trial lessons receive callbacks from GoStudent to schedule the free session. This enables Studienkreis to offer online trial lessons while GoStudent gains access to Studienkreis's customer base.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Preply: Online language tutoring marketplace headquartered in Barcelona with strong European footprint. Operates the same tutor-marketplace model with similar unit economics; targets the language-learning subset of tutoria's addressable market.
• Superprof: French-founded global tutoring marketplace with strong DACH presence. Operates a tutor-matching platform across academic subjects, languages, and music — same marketplace business model as tutoria, competing for the same German parent-student segment.
• GoStudent: Austrian-founded, Vienna-headquartered online tutoring marketplace operating across DACH and broader Europe. Directly competes with tutoria in German-language K-12 tutoring via live online lessons and a tutor marketplace model; raised hundreds of millions of euros including a major round in 2022.

Broad incumbents

• Varsity Tutors: US-based online tutoring and test-prep platform (owned by Nerdy Inc.). Broad incumbent offering tutoring across K-12, higher education, and standardized test prep — overlapping with the academic tutoring category tutoria addresses, especially for exam preparation.
• Studienkreis: Germany's largest tutoring provider (~900 centers, 125,000+ students annually) combining physical franchises with online tutoring. Competes across all subjects and grades in Germany — a much larger incumbent that also offers online sessions in tutoria's core category.

Regional players

• MyTutor: UK-based online tutoring marketplace focused on school-age students. Same online tutor-matching model and target demographic as tutoria but operates exclusively in the United Kingdom rather than DACH.
• Easy-Tutor: Swiss-DACH online tutoring platform offering 1-on-1 sessions via video. Same marketplace-style tutoring delivery model; competes in overlapping DACH geography but is headquartered in Switzerland and primarily serves Switzerland and Germany.

Emerging players

• Tutorful: UK tutoring marketplace focused on school-age students with both online and in-person offerings. Smaller-scale direct competitor operating similar tutor-matching marketplace mechanics, but UK-only geographic footprint.
• First Tutors: UK-based private tutoring directory and marketplace connecting students with tutors across academic subjects. Smaller-scale marketplace with a longer UK heritage; niche/emerging competitor with same marketplace model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tutoria_de
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/studienkreisyt
• Facebookfacebook.com/tutoria.de
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tutoria-gmbh
• Instagraminstagram.com/studienkreis
• TikToktiktok.com/@studienkreis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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