⭐10 Alice.tech: Study Smart
3 min read - AI tool reinventing how students learn 📚
Many learners juggle textbooks, apps, practice tests, and tutoring sessions, often without a clear, personalized goal. Alice.tech, a startup from Copenhagen, allows students to put a goal in place 📝
🔍 The Problem
Education still follows a one-size-fits-all model—unfairly holding back fast learners and leaving slower ones behind. As a result, students often face problems like compromised subject understanding and learning, worse grades, and lack of motivation to learn new topics.
To compensate, students and families pour money into private tutors and prep classes – which can be prohibitively expensive (in Germany and other parts of Europe classes average €20–€40 per hour).
🔬 The Solution
Alice.tech is an AI-powered exam prep tool that transforms your notes or textbooks into a personalized, interactive study plan. It gives students access to quizzes, flashcards, summaries, and mock exams.
Simply upload your materials, and Alice structures them into a smart study system complete with an AI virtual tutor, progress tracking, feedback to focus on your weak points, and collaborative features like friend challenges and group quizzes.
The platform is free to use, but the free version comes with usage limits. The paid plan, which removes these caps, ranges from €7 to €20 per month.
📈 Market Potential and Scalability
Education is one of the world’s largest industries – over 20% of the global population are students. The global test preparation market was valued around $100 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach about $169 billion by 2032.
Similarly, the broader edtech sector, like digital education tools, is hitting its stride. For instance, the EdTech market was estimated at $142 billion in 2023 and growing ~13% annually.
Alice.tech is changing the game by using AI to help students study smarter, faster, and in a way that really fits their needs—making the most of a big global opportunity.
🚀 Stage
Alice.tech, founded in mid-2024, is a fast-moving early-stage startup. It joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch and launched its product publicly, already helping over 2,000 students improve their grades. The startup hit $20,000 in monthly recurring revenue during YC, with usage and income growing around 10% each week.
Within a few months and after refining the design and features, Alice grew to over 10,000 college users.
Given that Alice.tech participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, it's likely they received standard seed funding from them, which typically includes a $500,000 investment as part of their accelerator program.
At the moment, one of the investors of Alice.tech is Y Combinator, but the startup also had a private pre-seed round in February 2025.
👥 Founder Team
Alice.tech was co-founded in 2024 by Kim Rants (CEO) and Patrick Gadd (CTO). Kim has over 10 years of university teaching experience and was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey specializing in AI. Patrick, with 15+ years in AI and programming, is an Oxford graduate who has developed patented AI solutions.
