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Sense

Founded 2016 · 486 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors

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Olaunlockedknows Anil Dharni · together at MIT Sloan School of Management (overlapped)
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×2knows the team · via Punjab Engineering College
knows the team · via GREE International, Inc

Sense offers an enterprise recruiting platform for talent acquisition and staffing teams, combining a conversational CRM, AI recruiter, interview scheduling, automation, and SMS/WhatsApp messaging to engage candidates and speed up hiring. It serves industries including healthcare, manufacturing and warehousing, technology and IT, logistics, retail and hospitality, and financial services.

Also known as Sense Talent Labs, Inc. · SenseHQ

Founders & leadership

Sense was founded in 2016 by Pankaj Jindal and Anil Dharni.

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Pankaj JindalinFounder
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Anil Dharniin𝕏Co-Founder/CEOAnil Dharni founded Sense in 2015 and previously co-founded Funzio, a mobile games studio acquired by GREE for $210M in 2012, where he served as COO of GREE International afterward; he also led product at hi5 during its growth to over 60M monthly users. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and is an angel investor in multiple companies including Palantir, Skydio, and Amplitude.

Investors · 3

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Sense, operated by Sense Talent Labs, Inc., provides an AI-powered recruiting platform designed to sit on top of an employer's applicant tracking system and automate outreach, screening, candidate matching, engagement and interview scheduling. The platform is organized into modules including recruiting automation and engagement, a conversational CRM that operates inside the customer's ATS, an AI Recruiter, an AI Interviewer, conversational AI chatbots, conversational voice AI for automated phone screening and reference checks, SMS and WhatsApp messaging (1:1, campaign and automated), AI screening, candidate matching, employee referrals, interview scheduling for 1:1, panel and sequential formats, and analytics and insights.

The product is positioned to support both partial automation of early-stage candidate outreach and end-to-end management of open roles. Sense also markets a set of "Sense AI Agents." The company emphasizes integrations with existing HR technology stacks so that data and workflows connect to the customer's broader recruiting ecosystem.

Business model

Sense sells software to employer and staffing talent teams, with a pricing page and a demo-request sales motion indicated on its website. [0]

Traction

Sense reports that over 1,000 organizations use the platform. Customer-attributed results cited on its site include a 30% reduction in time-to-match, a 40% increase in candidate conversion rate, a 7% decrease in turnover, a 4x increase in completed interviews, 50% faster time-to-screen, 18 hours saved per recruiter per week, and a 75% reduction in time-to-offer. [0]

Latest developments

Sense is promoting a new set of Sense AI Agents alongside its conversational voice AI capability for automated screening and reference-check phone calls. [0]

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Sense states that more than 1,000 market leaders use the platform to accelerate hiring, and references customers including Dell. [0]

Technology

The platform applies AI across the recruiting workflow: automated candidate screening and matching, an AI Recruiter and AI Interviewer, conversational AI chatbots, and conversational voice AI that places automated phone calls for screening and reference checks. Automated messaging is delivered over SMS and WhatsApp, and the system integrates with customers' ATS and wider HR tech stack. The company publishes a Sense AI Policy. [0]

Go-to-market

Direct sales through personalized demo requests, supported by customer stories, a blog, books and reports, events and media resources; the company also cites training and customer support during implementation. [0]

Talent acquisition and staffing teams. Named industry solutions include financial services and insurance, healthcare, retail/restaurant/hospitality, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and warehousing, staffing, and technology and IT. [0]

Geography

Headquartered at 1875 Mission Street, Suite 103, San Francisco, CA 94103. [0]

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Customers (market leaders using platform)Jan 20261,000 companies
HeadcountAug 2026486

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

4 people who came through Sense went on to found or lead other companies.

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Sense do?
Sense is an AI-powered recruiting platform that automates candidate screening, matching, engagement and interview scheduling.
Who founded Sense?
Sense was founded by Pankaj Jindal, Anil Dharni in 2016.
Who are Sense's investors?
Sense's investors include Accel, Avataar Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund.