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Investor deck · October 2026

YNova

Multilingual tutoring system for milestone tests

Democratising International Education

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The Problem

One teacher.
Many first languages.
Limited time.

Learners
Teachers
Schools

Our Solution

One AI Tutoring Ecosystem.
33 languages.

Designed Around How Multilingual Students Think and Learn.

  • Students | Reduce test preparation time by 50%

  • Teachers | Save 15 hours per week

  • Schools | Add 100 teacher-equivalent hours of support per week for a 15-student cohort

YNova on phone and laptop: the learner home, the IELTS Speaking Studio, and the teacher and school dashboards

Our Solution

See YNova in two minutes.

Total Available Market (TAM)
Global English Language Training + international high-school pathway ecosystem
Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
Language institutions and international schools in China, India, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia & Thailand
Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM)
20% of SAM

The 110B USD International Education Market

$110 Billion$25.2 Billion$5.04 Billion

Our Business Model

B2B School Year Subscriptions

Annual contracts | Reusable seats | IELTS Product

Learner seatsPer seat / YearAnnual School ContractPer seat / Day
50US$828US$41,400
100US$768US$76,800
200US$708US$141,600
500US$588US$294,000

Annual contracts | Reusable seats | IELTS + IB Product

Learner seatsPer seat / YearAnnual School ContractPer seat / Day
50US$2,988US$149,400
100US$2,688US$268,800
200US$2,388US$477,600
500US$2,028US$1,014,000

Teacher & school dashboard package: US$150/month

Our Traction

School Demand

Initial marketing campaign conversion

Paid Pilots

Pilot activation

Paid Pilots

Countries

Learning Outcome

less time to reach the target score
Line drawing of four students and a teacher smiling around a laptop

Our Technology

Learning Action Model

The asset is the teaching policy, not the chatbot: how the system chooses the next step for each learner, and checks whether it worked. Here is one learner, once round the loop.

1Learnerstate2Evidence3Diagnosis4Learningobjective5Teachingaction6Learnerresponse7OutcomeBilingualLearner Twinupdated every loop

Step 1 of 7 · Illustrative example

Learner state

NOVA waiting, calm

Lin · first language Mandarin · aiming for IELTS 6.5

Article use (a / the)0.42 ± 0.15

Starting point from her first language: Mandarin has no articles, so omissions are expected. The estimate carries its uncertainty; it is never shown as a fact.

Bilingual Learner Twin · Lin

Each estimate shows its uncertainty band. Two update at the outcome step.

Language & Cultural Repertoire0.70 ± 0.10
Skills Across Languages0.42 ± 0.15
Cross-Language Learning Patterns0.50 ± 0.18
Personalised Bilingual Scaffolding0.46 ± 0.16
Progress Across Languages0.52 ± 0.12
Bilingual Support History0.30 ± 0.20
Transfer & Retention0.38 ± 0.20
Critical Thinking & Confidence0.58 ± 0.14

Testimonials

What learners, teachers and schools say.

Student
Student portrait
“It’s the best Arabic-English tutoring system I’ve ever used. I can learn how to express my own ideas in English.”
IELTS Teacher
IELTS Teacher portrait
“The training breaks learning into manageable steps.”
School Director
School Director portrait
“This is exactly the kind of product we’ve been looking for.”

Our Team

THREE PhDs in Language Education, Learning Design, and AI

Research-Driven | Lived Experience | Shared Mission

  • Helen Zipei Liu

    CEO & Founder

    PhD | Education | 10 Yrs Language Teacher

    Helen Zipei Liu
  • Bonnie Xuehua Fu

    CPO & Cofounder

    PhD | Education | 3 Yrs Product Designer

    Bonnie Xuehua Fu
  • Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran

    CTO & Cofounder

    PhD | AI | 25+ Research Publications

    Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran

Competitive Landscape

Where YNova sits.

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School workflowsTeam toolsIndividual practice
SmallTalk2Me
ELSA
Loora
Speak
Praktika
ChatGPT
Duolingo Max
YNovaTranslanguaging pedagogyCritical cultural awareness
Native-language supportEmbedded pedagogy

Bilingual learning design →

Institutional integration →

Our Moat

Why this is hard to copy.

  1. 01Exceptional Founder-Market Fit
  2. 02Practitioner-Led, Human-Centred Learning Design
  3. 03Bilingual Learning Intelligence for Global Citizenship

Financial Projections

US$300M ARR by Year 5.

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100M
150M
200M
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US$900K
US$10.4M
US$36M
US$120M
US$300M
Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
  • Year 1US$900K ARR · Full IELTS | 25 paying schools
  • Year 2US$10.4M ARR · IELTS + full IB curriculum | 75 paying schools
  • Year 3US$36M ARR · IELTS + IB + foundational English | 200 paying schools
  • Year 4US$120M ARR · IELTS + IB + foundational English | 500 paying schools
  • Year 5US$300M ARR · IELTS + IB + foundational English | 1,000 paying schools

Expansion Roadmap

Global From Day One.

  1. 2027

    Full IELTS: Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening

  2. 2028

    International high school curricula

  3. 2029

    Foundational English

  4. 2030+

    Full language-to-diploma learning platform

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Join us to transform international education for future global citizenship.

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