It is It is almost impossible Now to determine when a student's writing is made up using chatgpt or other Genai tool, and it can be a nightmare that is not discouraged Incorrect accusation. An AI Edtech startup is called Brisk has built a tool that may at least help teachers identify some of the unusual signs, and is now announced $ 15 million in new funds behind decent traction.
Next to a writing inspector, the brisk platform offers nearly 40 tools for teachers to use and study through a Chrome extension. The platform uses generative AI, computer vision and other AI features that Brisk says will help not only accelerate the work, but the task is better. This includes the lesson plans for writing, testing and presenting; work organizing for a variety of capabilities; Grading work, and more.
“Edtech's existing stack as we know, around 140 different tools used by the average US teacher in a given school year, is not ready for AI,” Brisk CEO and founder Arman Jaffer said in an interview. “We're trying to build the Ai-Native Edtech stack.”
The fund will be used in part to produce more tools, and in part to expand to more platforms. A Microsoft integration, aimed at many schools Microsoft stores, has been planned for autumn 2025.
The business is up to date for Brisk based in San Francisco. Since it raised a seed round of $ 5 million in September 2024, its user base grew five times, and Jaffer said the company was “40x'd” its income in 2024 (it should be noted that the company starts from zero). Brisk said more than 2,000 schools in 100 countries use products today, and more than 90% of its business comes from incoming interest. One in five K-12 teachers in the US was the Brisk extension installed in February 2025, Jaffer added.
Bessemer venture partners are leading the twist, along with previous backers owl ventures, South Park Commons, and Springbank Collective also participate.
Brisk funds and growth will come at a time when technology and education are increasingly intertwined.
Educators have spent many years embrace an increase in technology range to improve how they work as well as to offset other major changes in their tools (such as falling into books) and other areas, such as budget cuts. (The Recent DOE changes to the US has not played yet, but it has raised concerns that they will still spell more erosion of resources.)
Enter the tech, where it is easy to adopt, in a sense. There are literally ways -startups and larger giant technologies rolling in Edtech apps. Some outfits are directly with students and families, such as the immense Khan Academy Empire, while others direct themselves to schools and educators such as Suites developed by Google and Microsoft.
And, just as businesses embrace consumerization in their IT departments – looking for apps with the same usability as the most popular consumer apps – so teachers are looking for incoming to connect students. Kaot is a key example of how education is 'gamified,' this theory is a way of accessing education.
AI is another step in Edtech's natural evolution. AI companies are building learning tools at that point, and their main pitch is like Brisk's: AI will come if you like it or not, and everyone's life will make it better.
But like the other segments of the world of work and play, not all AI moves are received with open weapons. Guide to Openai Teachers at Chatgpt – Released at November 2024Arguably well after the horse was bolted – was met by criticism on a larger issue that failed to address around the accuracy and data protection.
Jaffer founded Brisk after spending time in Edtech in other capacity. He spent more than five years at the initiative of Chan Zuckerberg, where he conceived and led a team -building notebook, an alternative Google Docs aimed at improving the cooperation between students and teachers. In the end, notebooks Not leavingAt least because, well, Google Docs do the job, but also because AI has also changed the game for collaboration. That ethos was brought to Jaffer's next swing of the Bat's founder.
If using AI rings alarm bells, Brisk wants to be mastered in a measured approach: help, not replacement.
The company writing inspector of the company does not end “It was written by ChatGPT.” It starts with a video of a student's work process on the screen, which then watches fast movements, flagging when that student has a copy/paste information or otherwise does other things that do not recognize how they work. It is then sent to the teacher that can be evaluated if it can be an indication of copying from elsewhere, or if the work is actually created by Genai.
The most popular stack tool, “Targeting Feedback“Uses Generative AI to read student essays (on Google Docs) and create age-consistent comments, a grading rubric or other standards if uploaded or selected. Before anything else is shared with students, teachers can review and edit comments (in the best scenario, they do that instead of shifting them with no oversight).
If AI's idea of taking some teachers' work, and maybe even making it better, is loved or feared in the world of education, it seems that the trend is very clearly ignoring, says Kent Bennett, the Bessemer partner who led this investment.
“We are big believers at this moment of AI in monitoring sectors such as education technology, with a reputation of being a tech phobic. This reputation often arises because the high amount of work flow in these environments involves human language, and thus not as address as legacy software-all of them can change,” he said in an email exchange.
“[But] One of the biggest surprises as we look at the AI that ED-Tech enables is that educators are not only tolerant of AI, they are aggressively looking for it, “he said, adding” obvious “that teachers cannot be cut off from the equation altogether.
Hopefully, the brisk will build more exciting tools beyond its extensions. Later this year, it is moving to a new web platform so that “educators can work cohesively and natively within the powerful environment.” This includes new resources and activities, Jaffer said.
Brisk also wants to offer more “multimodal” integration. This includes the ability for students to submit image-based work, in addition to the text, for reviews; And a “podcast” feature to generate audio versions to describe documents and more.
