OptimaEd

“As long as it's six degrees of freedom, we can use any headset that's out there in the market. Our software actually runs even on the Apple product the Apple vision pro. So it doesn't matter if it's if it's either meta, If it's Apple, if it's HTC, if it's Pico…”

“A good friend of mine, Erica Donalds, and I ended up raising about three million dollars friends and family around and started a virtual reality curriculum company.”

“Meta has evolved now where they're focused in the k-twelve space, and we're kind of the only game in town that is comprehensive, and so as Meta has launched In the last three weeks, Meta for Education, we've now become an official partner of Meta because we ac…”

“So we did a 900 page application with the state of Florida to be able to fund the first round of headsets for our students completely free. So the tuition was free. The headset access was free, all funded by the state of Florida because we had done the work to…”

“We start at the age of eight years old in terms of beginning to introduce VR technology, so that's about, Third, fourth grade for us is when we start, and we scaffold it through high school. So those who are in high school are going to have much more access to…”

“We had a 95% renewal rate on our enterprise side.”

“We're now using small language models and even large language models to power The avatars that are teaching about these particular subjects.”

“So we have 74 employees today and we're on track to do twelve million dollars of revenue this year, 10 of which are, is annual recurring revenue.”

“I mean, we did a million dollars in, in VR field trips last year. We've already done a million dollars in the first quarter of this year by just plugging into channels.”

“We do also have quite a bit of traction on the enterprise side of our business where we're selling directly to schools, and we're selling directly to districts, but the largest portion of our revenue, and we've doubled revenue every year for the last three yea…”

“Optima Ed actually throws it on its head. No matter where you are in the country, we can bring live teaching, and we can bring asynchronous teaching powered by AR power avatars to you. So we're solving the teacher shortage problem, and we're solving the access…”

“We're on track to be at 1500 students full-time next year.”

“So even though we run a school of 900 kids, our content is touching 30,000 kids.”

“We'll be cashflow positive in July of this year. And we'll be at positive EBITDA, which is important for us to go to the next phase, which we see as a series A.”

“And one of the things that I've learned in, in, in, in, in kind of curating these, this feedback is that if you've actually done hard work. The level of detail by which you can speak to it is far different than if you were on a team that kind of just watched, …”