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Felix Ohswald is the Co-Founder and CEO of . The Vienna-headquartered digital learning platform providing tailored, high quality video-based tuition for students of all school levels and for all school subjects. In 2015, the company started out as a homework chat service, managed via WhatsApp. Felix, aged 21 at the time, was completing his Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance at ETH Zurich after he had successfully completed his Bachelor in Mathematics at the University of Vienna by the age of 18. His younger brother, Moritz, was also studying, and began referring his classmates to Felix for support with their maths homework. Given his expertise in the subject, Felix quickly became the go-to expert for Moritz’s whole year group, who would regularly text him. Felix was quickly surprised by the volume of messages he was receiving, and was concerned by the fact that there appeared to be a distinct lack of support for these students. Felix reached out to his friend Gregor Müller, GoStudent’s Co-Founder and COO, and proposed that together they build a dedicated homework support app, where children could be connected with motivated and inspiring tutors and would receive high-quality support. The platform grew rapidly and with a community base of around 500,000 students, Felix and Gregor managed to pivot to a functioning business model in early 2019. They started by offering one-on-one online lessons on a membership basis. From day one, Felix’ goal has been to build the No.1 global school, to connect students around the world with their ideal teacher, allowing them to learn in a way that best suits them, unlocking their true potential. Founded in 2016, the EdTech scale-up is now active in 22 countries. GoStudent has more than 1,500 employees and has opened 22 international offices. Over 1,5M tutoring sessions are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent works with 15,000 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €590m from investors such as Prosus and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.