Sahahly

Overview

Sahahly provides grading and student-tracking services to IGCSE teachers in Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar. After five years of doing the work with teams of assistants, it introduced an AI model in December 2025 that grades essays, diagrams and equations and sends reports to teachers and parents.

• More than 75 paying teachers in Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar, and about EGP 15 million in cumulative revenue, according to the pitch.
• Teachers pay EGP 50 to 250 per student per month; the founders quoted a gross margin of about 83% and a net margin of about 50%.
• The AI model grades about 30,000 papers a month and feeds a progress report to each parent.

The pitch

In Season 5, Episode 3, co-founders Abdelrahman and Youssef, who gave only their first names on air, asked for EGP 2 million for 10%, which values Sahahly at EGP 20 million. They said they started in 2020 while still at university, grading IGCSE papers by hand with teams of assistants, and switched to their own AI model in December 2025. They put cumulative revenue at about EGP 15 million, with more than 75 paying teachers in Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar. Three sharks made offers: Dina Ghabbour EGP 2 million for 20%, Ahmed Tarek Khalil EGP 2 million for 25% with placement in his schools, and Ayman Abbas EGP 2 million in cash plus EGP 2 million in engineering, software and marketing services for 30%. The founders countered Ayman at EGP 4 million for 25%. The show's on-screen caption records his final offer as EGP 2 million for 30%, falling to 25% once agreed targets are met, plus EGP 2 million in in-kind services, and the founders accepted.

Services & products

• AI gradingTeachers send students’ work as PDFs; the model grades multiple-choice, essay, diagram and equation questions and returns marked papers within a day.
• Student progress reportsEach paper is analysed by topic, and a plain-language report goes to the teacher and to parents, by integration with Google Classroom or over WhatsApp.
• Teacher assistant servicesOffice hours, exam preparation and performance tracking run by Sahahly’s assistant teams, which the company says it is shifting from grading to facilitation.

Team and investors

• Ayman AbbasInvestor · 37 deals

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