Sense
Sense is a Climate & Home Energy company founded in 2013 and based in Cambridge, USA. It has raised $180M in total funding, most recently a Series C in 2022.
Founded in 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Mike Phillips, Ryan Houlette, and Christopher Micali, Sense applies machine learning to high-resolution electrical measurements to identify the energy signatures of individual appliances from a single monitoring point. Phillips, a former MIT speech-recognition researcher who founded SpeechWorks and Vlingo, applied similar signal-processing techniques to home power. Sense long sold a DIY monitor for the breaker panel but discontinued it on December 31, 2025, pivoting entirely to embedding its software in partner smart meters and electrical panels, including via Schneider Electric and a January 2026 smart-meter partnership with Landis+Gyr. It raised a $127.6 million Series C led by Blue Earth Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $180 million.
Its appliance-level disaggregation turns a single meter into whole-home visibility, a foundation for energy efficiency and utility-grade load intelligence.
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