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TortinSeed · Confidential · 2026

Your teaching.
Not Silicon Valley's.

We build for the professor. Authorship belongs back where it started.

CHF 42,458 LOCKED SINCE LAUNCH IN APRILTARGETED 2026 REVENUE AT CHF 80,0005 paid pilots2,000 learnersQSTP INCUBATED

The Problem

Universities are losing authorship of their Professors' teaching.

01

Students bypass Professors

ChatGPT becomes the 2 AM default tutor.

02

Professors get their own work back, flattened

Generic AI returns textbook consensus, not their course.

03

Institutions lose control

Zero visibility, full liability.

The market at stake

CHF 7.44B
TAM — global HE teaching & courseware spend, 2026
CHF 1.08B
SAM — 7,263 institutions across EHEA, GCC & US four-year
CHF 272M
SOM — ~1,800 research universities, business schools & ExecEd

The Solution

Full orchestration of the professor's pedagogy. A tutor trained by the prof.

01 · COURSE TRUTH02 · GROUNDING GATE03 · WHAT THE STUDENT GETSLecture decks142 slidesReadings & problem sets38 docsRubrics & exam bank6 semestersProfessor tutorRetrieval scoped to corpusBehaviour: SocraticCitation required to answerOpen web: professor's switchOpen webOptional · off by defaultPROFESSOR SETS THISAnswer, with the receipt"What does slide 12 say aboutmarginal cost?"SOURCE · WK6 DECK · P.12EVERY QUESTION RETURNS AS SIGNAL THE PROFESSOR OWNS

The product

Pedagogically grounded AI. Analytics all in one place.

Tortin tutor controls for model, behavior, course materials, assessments, and answer style

THE MOAT

The longer a professor uses it, the harder it is to replace.

WHAT A REPLACEMENT WOULD HAVE TO REBUILDS1Slides & readings ingestedS2Rubrics & exam bankS3Feedback style capturedS4Student blindspot signalsS5Cross-cohort comparisonsS6Departmental course memorySIX SEMESTERS OF COURSE INTELLIGENCE — NOT A FEATURE COMPARISON

Context modelling

Feedback style, past exam questions, student blindspots.

Curated knowledge bank

Slides, readings, rubrics — compounding every semester.

Pedagogical orchestration

AI that behaves like this professor, not any professor.

THE TRACTION

Rapid traction, ramping to lead the category.

CHF 42,458
Locked revenue
Q1–Q3 2026
CHF 80,000
2026 full year target
With distribution agreement ramp up
2,000
Active learners
Across live courses
81%
Gross margin
At scale
Pilot portfolio — locked contract value
UNIL / HEC LausanneCHF 24,756
Core anchor, recurring faculty adoption61.3% of booked
University of GenevaCHF 5,989
Public research university14.8% of booked
EDHECCHF 4,991
ExecEd unit, direct billing12.4% of booked
International Olympic CommitteeCHF 4,672
Global institution11.6% of booked

THE FOUNDERS

Built by a professor. Architected by an AI native.

Portrait of Dr. Katherine Tatarinov

Dr. Katherine Tatarinov

PhD — published in multiple top tier journals
Institutions associated with Dr. Katherine Tatarinov
Portrait of Shahzad Ahmed

Shahzad Ahmed

MSc Marketing / BSc Computer Science
Institutions associated with Shahzad Ahmed

THE ASK

CHF 800K Seed to build the commercial team and lead the EMEA market.

60%
27%
13%

Commercial team

Enterprise sellers across Europe, the Gulf and North America — the first hire is the person who runs commercial.

Product & AI engineering

Live lesson infrastructure, multi-model gateway, governance hardening.

Operations & legal

EU AI Act readiness, FERPA/GDPR certification. Swiss rules potentially coming.

Cash-flow positive
January 2029
Estimated 2030 ARR
CHF 37.5M
Closing

Authorship belongs
back where it started.

Tortin
katya@tortin.com
TORTIN.COM | GENEVA | DOHA
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