Who founded Sentenai?

Sentenai was founded by Rohit Gupta, Brendan Kohler in 2016.

Who are Sentenai's investors?

Sentenai's investors include Alumni Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Hyperplane Venture Capital.

How much funding has Sentenai raised?

Sentenai has disclosed $1.8M raised across 1 round.

Where is Sentenai headquartered?

Sentenai is headquartered in Cambridge, US.

Sentenai

Cambridge, US · Founded 2016 · Delaware corporation · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

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Sentenai provides a data analytics platform that combines historical data analysis, expert knowledge encoding, and real-time data fusion to help organizations make informed decisions and extract actionable intelligence across distributed data sources.

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Founders & leadership

Sentenai was founded in 2016 by Rohit Gupta and Brendan Kohler.

Rohit Gupta Co-founder and CEOHe previously founded Grid Sensor, served as Director at Techstars Boston and Payfone, worked as a venture capitalist at Opus Capital evaluating early-stage investments, and held engineering and project management roles at Accenture; he holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Brendan Kohler Co-founder & CTOBrendan Kohler is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Sentenai, a Boston-based company building autonomous data engineering solutions.

Board

Reed SturtevantBoard director

Investors · 4

Alumni Ventureslisted by Alumni VenturesManchester · $100K – $10M

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Flybridge Capital Partnerslisted by Flybridge Capital PartnersNew York · $250K – $10M

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Founder Collectivelisted by Founder CollectiveCambridge

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Hyperplane Venture CapitalreportedBoston · $250K – $3M

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Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$1.8M disclosed across 1 round · 2016

▶$1.8MraisedJan 2016 · 14 investors · Other Technology

Rule 506(b)

Officers, directors & promoters on the filing

Brendan Conwell KohlerExecutive Officer, Director
Rohit GuptaExecutive Officer, Director
Reed SturtevantDirector

Amount sold: $1.8M
First sale: Jan 2016
Incorporated: Corporation, Delaware, 2016
Federal exemptions: 06b

Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

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Non-dilutive funding · 4 SBIR/STTR awards

Federal grants — no equity taken

Agency	Phase	Year	Amount
U.S. NavyNavy	Phase I	2023	$140K
U.S. Air ForceAir Force	Phase II	2021	$900K
U.S. Air ForceAir Force	Phase I	2021	$49.7K
U.S. Air ForceAir Force	Phase I	2020	$73K

Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.

Frequently asked questions

What does Sentenai do?: Sentenai provides a data analytics platform that combines historical data analysis, expert knowledge encoding, and real-time data fusion to help organizations make informed decisions and extract actionable intelligence across distributed data sources.
Who founded Sentenai?: Sentenai was founded by Rohit Gupta, Brendan Kohler in 2016.
Who are Sentenai's investors?: Sentenai's investors include Alumni Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Hyperplane Venture Capital.
How much funding has Sentenai raised?: Sentenai has disclosed $1.8M raised across 1 round.
Where is Sentenai headquartered?: Sentenai is headquartered in Cambridge, US.