It is Almost impossible It can be a nightmare to determine when to write students’ writing using Chatgpt or other Genai tools today Incorrect accusations. AI EDTECH startup company is called brisk A tool has been built that can at least help teachers identify some of the Telltale logos, and now it announces $15 million in new funding after decent traction.
In addition to writing inspectors, Brisk’s platform also offers about 40 tools for teachers and students to use through Chrome extensions. The platform uses generated AI, computer vision and other AI capabilities, which not only helps speed up work, but also works better. These include writing lesson plans, exams and speeches; adjusting work with different abilities; scoring work, etc.
“The existing Edtech stack we know is 140 different tools used by the average teacher in the United States in a given academic year, and AI is not ready yet,” Arman Jaffer, CEO and founder of Brisk, said in an interview. “We are trying to build an AI-NATIANITEDECH stack.”
The funds will be partly used to build more tools, partly to expand to more platforms. The Microsoft Integration Program is aimed at many schools in Microsoft Shops and is scheduled to take place in fall 2025.
So far, the business has been active for San Francisco-based Brisk. Its user base has grown 5 times since raising $5 million in seed rounds in September 2024, and Jaffer said the company received “40 times” revenue in 2024 (notably, the company started from scratch). Brisk said that more than 2,000 schools in 100 countries today use their products, and more than 90% of their business comes from inbound interest. Jaffer added that as of February 2025, one in five K-12 teachers in the U.S. have installed the brisk extension.
Bessemer Venture Partners is leading the tour, with former supporters OWL Ventures, South Park Commons and Springbank Collective also participating.
Brisk’s funding and growth are at a time when technology and education become increasingly intertwined.
Educators have spent years embracing an increasing number of technologies to improve the way they work and offset other significant changes in their tools (such as textbook declines) and other areas (such as budget cuts). (this The recent changes in the United States in the United States Not yet working, but it raises concerns among people that they will spell more resources erode. )
In a sense, it is easy to enter technology. In fact, hundreds of startups and larger tech giants have launched Edtech apps. Some outfits are directly suitable for students and families, such as the huge Khan Academy Empire, while others direct themselves to schools and educators, such as suites developed by Google and Microsoft.
And, just as businesses embraced consumerization in their IT departments (an app that looks for the same apps as the most popular consumer apps), teachers are looking for teachers to connect with students. Kahat It is a key example of how education is “gamified”, and theory is a way to make learning easier.
AI is another step in Edtech’s natural development. AI companies are building learning tools, and their basic tone is like Brisk’s: AI makes everyone’s life better, whether you like it or not.
But, like the rest of the work and game world, not all AI actions are received with open arms. Openai’s Chatgpt Teacher Guide – Release November 2024It can be said that after the horse explodes, people are not able to solve the bigger problems of accuracy and data protection have been criticized.
Jaffer created the brisk time after spending time in Edtech in a different capacity. He spent more than five years on the Chan Zuckerberg initiative, where he conceived and led a team-building notebook, an alternative to Google Docs designed to improve collaboration between students and teachers. Finally, the notebook No takeoffespecially because Google Docs did the job, but also because AI did change the game of collaboration. This spirit is brought to Jaffer’s next founder Bat.
If using the AI ring alarm bell, Brisk wants to eliminate this with the measured method: help, not replace it.
The company’s student writing inspectors did not conclude: “This is written by Chatgpt.” It starts with a video of the student’s work process on the screen and then watches in quick action, when the student has the copy/paste information, or is doing other things that are not wise to the way they work. It is then sent to the teacher, who can evaluate whether it can indicate that it is copied from elsewhere, or whether it is indeed created by Genai.
The most popular tool in the stack,”Targeted feedback,” read student papers using generated AI (on Google Docs) and create comments for age-quantity if they are uploaded or have selected the standard criteria.
In the field of education, whether AI ideas are loved or feared in the field of education, said Kent Bennett, a Bessemer partner who leads the investment.
“We have been tracking fields like educational technology in this AI moment, and our believers are known for their tech fears. This reputation often comes because high-value workflows in these environments involve human language, so it’s less sought-after than legacy software – like LLM – all of which can change,” he told TechCrunch in an email exchange.
“[But] When we investigated ED-Tech for AI-powered, one of the biggest surprises is that educators not only tolerate AI, but they are actively looking for it. “It’s obvious” that teachers can’t cut out completely from the equation, he added.
Going forward, Brisk will build more immersive tools beyond its expansion. Later this year, it will open a new online platform so that “educators can cohese and work locally in a light environment”. Jaffer said it will include new resources and activities.
Brisk also hopes to provide more “multi-mode” integration. These will include students’ ability to submit image-based works (text) for evaluation; and the “podcast” feature to generate audio versions to describe documents, and so on.
