YZi Labs Leads Investment in VideoTutor's $11 Million Seed Round

BlockBeats News, October 30th, YZi Labs announced that it has led a $11 million seed round investment in VideoTutor. VideoTutor is an AI education agency founded by a 20-year-old Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur. Investors include Jinqiu Fund (ByteDance affiliate), Baidu Ventures, Amino Capital, BridgeOne Capital, among others. This marks YZi Labs' first AI software investment since expanding its investment scope earlier this year, reflecting its broader strategic vision to support breakthrough technologies that drive human learning through AI.

The company was founded by Kai Zhao and James Zhan. Kai Zhao is a 20-year-old college student and serial entrepreneur, whose previous AI education startup received investment from Y Combinator; James Zhan has work experience at Meta and Google. VideoTutor launched in May 2025, with over 20,000 users and over 20,000 videos generated in the first 10 days. Since its launch, global educational institutions and learning platforms have submitted over 1,000 API integration requests.