🔦 Spotlight

Numerade, the LA-based AI-powered online STEM learning platform, is here to support LA’s under-appreciated heroes - the teachers. It offers valuable resources to help them with teaching, creating lesson plans, and more.🤖📚🍎

Numerade announced an initiative to provide one year of free Numerade Plus services to all Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students and teachers. The platform provides over 100 million step-by-step video lessons along with a GPT-4 powered AI tutor, Ace, which tailors personalized study plans, provides immediate homework help, gives in-depth explanations, and offers social-emotional support. The platform also aids teachers in grading and making assessments.

The EdTech startup started the initiative to provide free Numerade Plus as a way to alleviate pandemic setbacks in learning. LAUSD test scores show that about 7 in 10 students still do not meet standards in math. While the test scores are showing some progress compared to last year, math scores are still below levels from the 2017-18 school year–two years before the pandemic.

These disparities and access to supplemental learning is especially prominent in LAUSD where more than 80% students are at or below the poverty level. While tutoring is an essential part of assisting academic recovery, it has reached fewer than 1 in 10 LA students. Numerade’s AI tutor helps expand access to all LA students.

Numerade highlights its mission: “to close the educational opportunity gap by unlocking and democratizing access to extraordinary educators and the content they have to offer.” Its CEO, Nhon Ma, grew up in LA and experienced educational inequities as a student himself. Ma co-founded the startup to provide accessible educational support outside of the classroom. Onwards and Upwards LAUSD!🎓📈🚀 

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Saturday, November 11th

• The Multimodal Generative Hack - Join AI LA and the brightest innovators in music, video, gaming, and AI for two days in Playa Del Rey to shape the future of entertainment and interactive design!

Tuesday, November 14th

• The Creator Economy, Hollywood, and Artificial Intelligence - A special evening including stimulating conversations, live podcast recordings, insider networking, tasty refreshments, and surprises!

Wednesday, November 15th

• LA Tech Happy Hour - West LA - ​Meet and connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals while enjoying refreshing drinks. Learn about the latest trends and developments in the tech industry and expand your professional network!

Thursday, November 16th

• Female Founders in Food Tech Pitch Finals - ​Attend this pitch competition in culver City for early stage entrepreneurs working to make the future of food and agriculture more sustainable, climate-resilient, and culture-rich.

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