Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

Brisk Teaching provides an AI-driven browser extension that integrates with educators' existing tools to create resources, tutor, grade, authenticate writing, and deliver personalized learning experiences. The product lives on top of legacy classroom apps, unifying workflows and leveraging compounding feedback loops to tailor content and save teachers up to 10 hours per week. Brisk says more than one million educators in over 100 countries use its platform, and it has partnered with over 2,000 schools. Since a $5M seed in September 2024, the company expanded its user base five-fold and emphasizes student privacy and security via recognitions such as the Student Privacy Pledge and Common Sense Media. Future plans include evolving from a suite of tools into a full classroom agent, expanding reach to combat teacher burnout, and investing in product development to enable an AI-native edtech stack. The company positions its platform as a way to replace fragmented legacy tools and drive end-to-end automation in K-12 instruction. Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered Chrome extension for educators, schools, and districts that automates routine instructional tasks and integrates with curriculum, learning management systems, and Google Workspace. The product offers teacher-facing features including differentiated texts, content creation, feedback, and writing authentication. Within a year of launch the extension is used by over 500,000 teachers across 30,000 school districts and is claimed to be the most popular AI-powered Chrome extension for educators. Brisk reports saving educators more than 10 million hours to date and aims to automate roughly 20 hours of weekly digital work per teacher. The company also launched Brisk Boost, a student-facing tool that converts content into AI-powered activities—providing tutoring, adaptive quizzes, brainstorming, and real-time feedback tied to lesson objectives. Brisk positions itself as an integrative layer that works inside teachers' existing tools rather than adding another separate platform.