Co-founded in 2024 by veteran advanced manufacturing founder and CEO Adam Hopkins (Princeton PhD) and Berkeley Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Rayne Zheng, Sensetics is creating programmable fabrics backed by AI-powered software and redefining how humans and machines connect by pioneering digital touch, the third digital sense, that will help bridge the gap between the physical and the virtual. In an automated world increasingly driven by the adoption of robotic hardware and AI software, Sensetics technology harnesses a new data source — touch — to empower robotic equipment with the tactile intelligence to operate in real world settings and humans to engage more productively with both digital environments and machines. We equip people and automated equipment to learn, train, and operate through touch, creating new pathways for workforce readiness in this next stage of the digital era.
Fitz Gate III co-led the round with MetaVC Partners, an early stage venture firm with a specific focus on meta materials.
