Gradescope, Inc.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2014Employees
51-200Funding
AcquiredProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
gradescope.com/
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About Gradescope, Inc.
Gradescope is an education technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014 by Arjun Singh, Pieter Abbeel, and Sergey Karayev. The company builds software tools that allow instructors at colleges and universities to grade paper-based, digital, and programming assignments more efficiently, using machine learning to group similar student responses for batch grading.
The platform supports a range of assignment types including handwritten exams, bubble sheets, and code submissions. It is used primarily in higher education, with adoption at universities across the United States and internationally. Instructors can provide structured feedback at scale, and students receive annotated, scored work through the platform.
In 2018, Turnitin, a provider of academic integrity software, acquired Gradescope for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, Gradescope continued to operate as a distinct product within Turnitin's portfolio. The company had raised seed funding prior to the acquisition, though the total amount was not publicly disclosed.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Gradescope, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Crowdmark competes directly in paper and online exam grading for higher ed and K-12, digitizing handwritten assessments with LMS-embedded workflows and multimedia feedback; unlike Gradescope, it remains an independently owned company rather than a subsidiary of an academic-integrity vendor.
CodeGrade focuses narrowly on autograding programming assignments across 175+ languages with a browser-based coding environment, overlapping with Gradescope's programming-assignment grading feature but not its broader paper-exam and rubric-based grading core.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Gradescope, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired by Turnitin
Turnitin acquired Gradescope for an undisclosed sum. At the time, Gradescope had graded over 60 million answers at more than 600 institutions, including half of all Ivy League schools.
turnitin.com - Funding
Seed round — $2.75M led by Reach Capital
Reach Capital led a $2.75M round with new investors GSV AcceleraTE and Ironfire Ventures, joined by existing investors K9 Ventures, Freestyle Capital and Bloomberg Beta.
seekingalpha.inknowvation.com - Funding
Seed round — $2.6M led by Freestyle Capital
Freestyle Capital co-led a $2.6M seed round with Bloomberg Beta, Reach Capital and The House Fund; existing investor K9 Ventures also participated. Dave Samuel (Freestyle) and Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures) joined the board.
edsurge.com - Founded
Founded by UC Berkeley computer science teaching assistants
Gradescope grew out of a 2012 UC Berkeley CS teaching-assistant project by Arjun Singh, Sergey Karayev, Ibrahim Awwal and Pieter Abbeel; by spring 2014, after the tool had outgrown internal use, the founders committed to building it into a company.
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