Check out the pitch deck a 26-year-old founder used to get Twitter cofounder Biz Stone to invest in his startup

Ismail Jeilani

Ismail Jeilani, 26, co-founded tutoring platform Scoodle in 2017

• Online tutoring platform Scoodle has raised $760,000 in a pre-seed funding round backed by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone.
• The UK firm has signed up more than 100,000 tutors, students and parents worldwide, and hopes to turn teachers into online influencers.
• Cofounder Ismail Jeilani, 26, gave Business Insider an exclusive look at the pitch deck he used to drum up investment.
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Scoodle, the online tutoring startup, has raised $760,000 in a pre-seed funding round backed by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone.

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Founded in 2017 by chief exec and former Googler Ismail Jeilani, 26, London-based Scoodle aims to turn teachers into online influencers or - as Jeilani puts it himself - "the Kim Kardashians of education". The platform has so far been used by more than 100,000 tutors, students and parents worldwide.

Speaking exclusively to Business Insider, Jeilani revealed how he convinced Stone, co-founder of Twitter and publishing platform Medium, to invest.

Following an impromptu chat at Oxford Foundry, an accelerator founded by the ancient university of the same name, Jeilani and his co-founders soon found themselves chatting with Stone at Twitter's head office in California.

On the news that he would invest, Jeilani told us: "I couldn't believe it. It was a dream come true... Everything was just suddenly falling into place."

He said Scoodle would use the new funds to expand its engineering team, adding: "We're really focused on building a great product for students, parents and tutors. That's what really matters."

You can take a look at Scoodle's (redacted) pitch deck below: