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Sense: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

sense.com LinkedIn Cambridge, United States 251-500 employees
Consumer Electronics GreenTech Hardware Internet of Things Smart Home Software Speech Recognition
Total raised
$105M
Rounds
2
Latest
Undisclosed round
Jan 2026

Sense has raised $105M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent an undisclosed round announced in Jan 2026.

Sense Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$105M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
1 with no disclosed amount
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
Jan 2026
Employees
251-500
reported band
Headquarters
Cambridge, United States

Latest funding round on record: Jan 2026.

Sense Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
Undisclosed
Series C
$105M

1 of 2 rounds was announced without a disclosed amount and is excluded from the total.

Sense raised $105M in a Series C announced in Apr 2022.

3.8 years later, an undisclosed round was announced in Jan 2026 with no disclosed amount.

Sense Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Christopher Micali
Founder
Ryan Houlette
Founder
Locked

Contact details for the Sense team: 1 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Sense Funding FAQs

What does Sense do?

Sense specializes in developing and distributing tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers. Sense, its home monitoring system, is able to listen to the electronic signatures of electrical devices through its current sensors on the main breakers in electrical panels and records them. Followed by the recording process, it applies multi-domain device signature detection algorithms to distinguish one appliance from another to recognize each individual voice. Furthermore, the system transmits its data to its users through a specially designed mobile application. Sense was founded by Ryan Houlette, Christopher Micali, and Mike Phillips in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

How much funding has Sense raised?

Sense has raised $105M across 2 rounds on record.

When did Sense last raise funding?

Sense's most recent funding round on record was announced in Jan 2026. The amount was not disclosed.

Who founded Sense?

FundedIQ lists Christopher Micali (Founder), Ryan Houlette (Founder) at Sense.

Where is Sense headquartered?

Sense is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

How many employees does Sense have?

Sense is in the 251-500 employee band.

About FundedIQ's Sense Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Sense is left off this page rather than filled in.

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