Is Mark Mate Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Mark Mate on AmazonFull story →Mark Mate is a marking assistant app built by former primary school teacher James Holmes, pitched in series 16 for twenty thousand pounds against thirty-five percent of the company, a deal Touker Suleyman agreed to.
Older accounts describe the app still being sold directly to schools.
Built From A Teacher's Own Frustration
Holmes pitched a tool built to let teachers speak their feedback aloud as they work through a stack of books, rather than writing every single comment out by hand, a fix aimed squarely at the late-night grind none of the Dragons had ever personally lived through.
Twenty thousand pounds is one of the smaller asks in this batch of pitches, reflecting a software product that needed comparatively little capital to keep building and marketing once the core app already worked.
A Software Business, Checked Differently
Notes on file describe the app still live, still pitched to schools as a marking tool with years of use behind it dating back to its time on the show, sold directly to schools and individual teachers rather than through any retail channel.
This was never a physical product, so schools and individual teachers buying licences directly is the whole distribution model rather than a fallback.