About Tutorcity

Tutorcity brings students and tutors around the world together where they can learn and teach online, anytime, anywhere.

Students use Tutorcity to find and choose the right tutor that matches their needs. Through our global network, students are no longer limited to learning from tutors within their neighborhood but have access to the best tutors regardless of where they are in the world. We also make real-time audio and video communication, payment and rating tools easy to use by bringing the best internet applications onto our user-friendly platform.

Tutorcity first started as a tutor-matching website in 1999 and was a popular service in Singapore for over 4 years. In 2007, Thunkr LLC was founded to relaunch Tutorcity into a world-class global learning platform, with a vision to transform and expand the way we learn and teach one another through internet technologies.

Tutorcity's management team has been friends since their undergraduate days at Stanford University, where they had some of the most fun and fulfilling times of their lives. Together, they have over a decade of working experience at PayPal, Sun, Oracle and Microsoft. We are currently privately funded and based in Sunnyvale, California.

What is Online Tutoring

Online tutoring is the tutoring between a student and tutor over the internet using audio and video calls. Tutoring in the past has always been done in-person, but advances in video conferencing technologies and mass adoption of internet broadband connections have enabled online tutoring to become an efficient and effective way to learn.

Imagine the possibilities for a New Yorker in the USA learning French from a native speaker in Paris, a struggling engineering student getting help from a MIT graduate, or a Taiwanese high school student improving his chance of entering a top American university by taking SAT lessons from an alumni. Without the need to meet in-person, online tutoring allows students and tutors around the world to connect with one another from the convenience of their home.