Sense provides an HR platform that uses automation, artificial intelligence and personalization to help staffing and recruitment agencies find and hire blue-collar and frontline workers. The company offers services such as chatbots and bias-reducing screening tools and says its platform has been used to hire healthcare workers in the last 18 months. Sense reports more than 600 customers, including Amazon, Sears, Vaco and Kenny, and cites internal metrics showing a 263% average increase in candidates screened and up to an 81% reduction in time to fill roles. The startup has more than doubled its revenue and employee headcount over the past year. Leadership says the product is aimed at a largely untapped $200 billion opportunity and plans include expanding its offerings nationally and into Western Europe. The company emphasizes speed of hire for hourly roles and aims to scale its platform globally. Sense offers an AI-driven talent engagement and communication platform that delivers personalized communication across the entire talent lifecycle and automates manual recruiter tasks. The platform uses AI and machine learning to scale personalized outreach and reduce recruiter workload. Customers on average see a 263% increase in candidates screened versus manual approaches, time-to-fill reductions of 30–81%, and up to 800 hours of recruiter time saved. Sense currently services more than 400 customers globally, including Amazon and Kelly Services. The company doubled revenue and employee headcount in the past year and has expanded with a new office in India. Leadership has indicated plans to invest in new products to evolve from a system of engagement toward a broader network/platform play. Sense provides a contractor engagement platform that enables staffing agencies and recruiters to personalize their interactions with contractors at every stage of the employment cycle. Its solution acts as a system of engagement for staffing agencies working with the contingent workforce. Sense works with over 200 clients, integrates with fifteen leading ATS platforms, and is working with six of the top U.S. staffing agencies, including Adecco and Apex Systems. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Anil Dharni and is based in San Francisco. Following its $13.5M Series B, Sense plans to accelerate investment in R&D and sales to expand its product and go-to-market efforts. Sense offers a talent engagement platform that automates personalized communications (emails and texts) across a contractor’s job cycle and provides a dashboard with engagement analytics and worker feedback. The product targets staffing agencies, enabling onboarding automation, real-time check-ins, re-deployment and alumni nurturing to scale a high-touch experience. Sense says customers use the platform to communicate with more than 1 million professionals each month and that it serves the $428 billion global staffing market. Customers have reported increases in re-deployment rates by as much as 50% and reductions in consultant attrition by as much as 20%, delivering significant cost savings for agencies. The company was launched in 2016 and is based in San Francisco. The founding team includes CEO Anil Dharni, CTO Ram Gudavalli, VP of Product Alex Rosen, and Head of Sales Pankaj Jindal; Dharni and Gudavalli previously built and sold Funzio to GREE for over $210 million. Sense plans to use new capital to support hiring and product development to further penetrate the contingent workforce market.

Total raised

$90M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Dec 2021