Sense Education
New York, US · Founded 2015 · Delaware corporation · 1 known investors
Software platform using data science to enable personalized education by detecting patterns for customized feedback and assignments.
Also known as Sense · sense.education
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 1
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$8.7M disclosed across 2 rounds · 2019–2025
▶$3.8MraisedJan 2025 · 10 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Emily BecherExecutive Officer
- Seth HabermanExecutive Officer, Director
- Charlie JablonskiDirector
- Ronen Tal-BotzerDirector
- Offering amount
- $4M
- Amount sold
- $3.8M
- First sale
- Jan 2025
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$5MraisedAug 2019 · 19 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Ronen Tal BotzerExecutive Officer, Director
- Seth HabermanExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $6.5M
- Amount sold
- $5M
- First sale
- Jul 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2015
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Sense Education develops an AI-driven assessment and feedback platform for education, with a focus on higher education institutions and large-enrollment courses. The system analyzes student submissions using artificial intelligence, including large language models, detects patterns across responses, and groups solutions into archetypes. Educators then review and comment on each archetype rather than each individual submission, which the company positions as a way to make open-ended assignments practical in very large classes while reducing grading time and grading bias.
Beyond assessment, the platform offers personalized tutoring and learning analytics intended to inform instruction and student outcomes. The company frames its design principle as preserving pedagogical control for instructors: AI is intended to amplify rather than replace human expertise, with transparent and explainable models, so that educators can assess critical thinking, problem-solving and applied reasoning rather than recall. Its early technical work targeted open-ended assignments in Computer Science and other STEM subjects, drawing on research into scaling feedback for introductory programming assignments.
Business model
Business-to-business software sold to educational institutions, primarily higher education; the company's site markets the platform via demo requests.
Traction
Third-party directories report roughly 16 employees spanning North America, Europe and Asia, and estimate annual revenue in the $1M-$10M range (an estimate, not a company disclosure). The platform has been recognized by Y Combinator, IE Business School, EnlightEd South Summit and Educause, including a "Best Technology Solution for Learning and Education" award at enlightED in 2018.
Latest developments
The platform's current positioning centers on large language model-based assessment, personalized tutoring and learning analytics for higher education, with leadership including CEO Seth Haberman and Co-CEO Emily Becher, who joined after leading Samsung NEXT International.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positions itself as a hybrid human-machine intelligence approach to grading and feedback, distinguished from fully automated grading tools. Third-party listings place it in the e-learning/EdTech segment alongside companies such as MagniLEARN, Engageli, Ment.io, Symbolab and Mathspace.
Rather than scoring submissions one by one, the platform clusters them into common solution types and lets educators curate feedback per type, an approach the company describes as transparent and explainable and as keeping human judgment in control of assessment.
Technology
Artificial intelligence applied to student submissions, including large language models, pattern recognition and clustering of responses into solution archetypes, plus learning analytics. R&D expertise spans graph theory, machine learning and source-code representation. Third-party technology profiling lists HubSpot Analytics, Google Analytics, jsDelivr, cdnjs, PHP, YouTube, GoDaddy hosting and Nginx.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales and marketing to institutions, supported by outbound marketing, customer engagement and demo requests through the company website; award recognition is used as external validation.
Higher education institutions, particularly departments running high-enrollment Computer Science and STEM courses with open-ended assignments, as well as large-scale online course providers.
Geography
Headquartered in New York, United States according to one directory and San Francisco, United States according to another; staff are reported across North America, Europe and Asia, with team members educated and based in Israel, Spain and the United States.
History
Founding year is reported inconsistently across sources: 2016 in one directory listing and 2018 in another. The company received its enlightED award in 2018 and has since expanded its platform to incorporate large language models for assessment, feedback and tutoring.
Risks & controversies
Publicly available data on the company is inconsistent, with conflicting founding years (2016 versus 2018) and headquarters locations (New York versus San Francisco) across third-party directories, and revenue figures that are modeled estimates rather than disclosed results.
Compiled by commissioned research from 3 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsSense received the "Best Technology Solution for Learning and Education" award at the enlightED summit, as reported in an October 2018 Business Wire item.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 3
primary sources listed
- Sense Education — $3M Raised, Investors, Team & Alternativesstartuphub.ai · web
3 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Sense Education do?
- AI-driven assessment platform that clusters student submissions into solution archetypes so educators can give feedback at scale.
- Who are Sense Education's investors?
- Sense Education's investors include Mindset Venture.
- How much funding has Sense Education raised?
- Sense Education has disclosed $8.7M raised across 2 rounds.
- Where is Sense Education headquartered?
- Sense Education is headquartered in New York, US.