# Alex Lee

> Alex Lee is the Los Angeles-based co-founder and CTO of Numerade, an education technology company built around short, repeatable video explanations for STEM students. A computer scientist educated at USC and UCLA, Lee volunteered as a tutor in South Los Angeles, co-founded the live tutoring platform Tutorcast, and helped turn an observation about students replaying recorded sessions into Numerade's asynchronous learning model.

- **Role:** CTO & Co-Founder at Numerade
- **Organizations:** Numerade, Tutorcast, HugeIQ, UCLA MAGIX Lab
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Bachelor of Science, University of Southern California
- **Known for:** Co-founded Numerade and serves as its chief technology officer., Helped evolve the earlier Tutorcast service into an asynchronous, video-based STEM learning platform., Helped build a company that reported serving 20 million students by its July 2021 Series A announcement.

## Career timeline

- **2010-2012** — Worked as a graduate student researcher at UCLA's MAGIX Lab.
- **2012-2014** — Founded HugeIQ.
- **2013** — Joined forces with Nhon Ma to pursue more accessible tutoring.
- **2014-2017** — Served as CTO and co-founder of Tutorcast, an online tutoring and broadcasting platform.
- **2018-2019** — Co-founded and launched Numerade after the Tutorcast team observed students repeatedly revisiting recorded tutoring sessions.
- **2020** — Numerade began offering free summer STEM bootcamps for middle and high school students.
- **2021-07** — Numerade announced a $26 million Series A led by IDG Capital.
- **2023-04** — Numerade released AceChat, a video-based AI study bot for STEM.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Numerade and serves as its chief technology officer.
- Helped evolve the earlier Tutorcast service into an asynchronous, video-based STEM learning platform.
- Helped build a company that reported serving 20 million students by its July 2021 Series A announcement.
- Led the technical side of a platform that grew from live tutoring recordings into a multimillion-video learning library and AI-assisted study tools.

## Latest updates

- **2023-11** — Lee's public LinkedIn activity highlighted Numerade's response to the White House executive order on AI in education and emphasized keeping human educators central to the learning experience.
- **2023-11** — Lee's public profile amplified Numerade's offer of free Numerade Plus access for Los Angeles Unified School District K-12 students and educators.

## Links

- Website: https://www.numerade.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alxle

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Last updated: 2026-09-27