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The team

Tutors who are closer in age, but raise the bar.

Current university students from top London universities, mentors, role models, and guides.

Samara Mahmood
Founder & Core Instructor

Samara Mahmood

King's College London

AI & Philosophy BSc

Founder
Annie Aung
Tutor

Annie Aung

King's College London

Business Management & French BSc

Alesha Jaswal
Tutor

Alesha Jaswal

UCL

Politics, Philosophy & Economics BSc

Maisha Ahmed
Tutor

Maisha Ahmed

King's College London

AI & Philosophy BSc

Honey Tewani
Tutor

Honey Tewani

Northeastern University London

Business Management BSc

Yara Kakah
Tutor

Yara Kakah

Bayes Business School

Business Management BSc

Aristou Meehan
Mentor

Aristou Meehan

UCL

English Literature BA

Isabelle Tan
Media & Liaisons Officer

Isabelle Tan

King's College London

Law LLB

Siena Patalano
Operations Associate

Siena Patalano

UCL

Crime & Security Science BSc

Nayna Shekhar
Events Associate

Nayna Shekhar

King's College London

Isaiah Simmons-Alexander
Marketing Manager

Isaiah Simmons-Alexander

UCL

Physics BSc

Founder

Samara Mahmood, founder of Gridless

Samara Mahmood

King's College London · AI & Philosophy BSc · IB graduate

I built Gridless through the King's Entrepreneurship Institute, where I was the winner of the Enterprise Award, which gives me access to a network of entrepreneurs, world-class facilities, and some of the top students in the UK. I have been tutoring literature and performance at LAMDA for three years, and every student I have worked with has achieved a distinction.

Before I built Gridless, interviews meant listing the clubs and tasks I'd done and trying to reverse-engineer a lesson from each. Building a real venture changed that entirely. For the first time I had authentic answers about the skills and experience I had actually developed. I want students to have that before applications and university, because it is a major head start: a network, real knowledge, and a story most people their age simply do not have.

I am 19, close enough in age to relate to the students I work with, and far enough into university and industry to open doors for them.

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