CGE-backed Inspera expands its AI-enabled offering with acquisition of Graide

Inspera, a global leader of digital assessment software solutions, has completed the strategic acquisition of Graide, the sector-leading classification AI-assisted marking and feedback platform, further strengthening its end-to-end assessment suite.

Educators worldwide face a common challenge: providing high quality, tailored feedback to students, while balancing grading, increasing student numbers and cohort sizes. Integration of Graide into Inspera’s product suite addresses this directly, improving efficiency, consistency and delivering a clear ROI by reducing workloads by up to 90% enabling educators to spend more time on meaningful student interactions.

Educators and students want humans, not machines, to produce rich feedback and determine grades, not generative AI. Graide is the only AI marking platform built on a classification AI model rather than generative AI, importantly keeping the human marker in control.

Integrating Graide’s classification AI into Inspera’s digital assessment suite enhances efficiency, fairness, and the student experience. Graide’s LMS tool will now feature Inspera Originality for integrated similarity reporting, while deep integration with Inspera Assessment combines flexible grading workflows with AI-assisted feedback. This synergy allows institutions to operationalise complex grading logic while maintaining the power of classification AI to deliver authentic, secure, and fair assessments.

Michael Ioakimides, Executive Chair of Inspera, said:
“At Inspera, we have always focused on quality and the efficiency of the academic workflow. We recognised there is a place for AI in grading and generating feedback, but wanted to integrate a market leading capability that made expert human inputs more efficient instead of outsourcing them to a large language model. Acquiring Graide, and its unique classification AI approach, was therefore the natural choice”.

Manjinder Kainth, CEO of Graide, added:
“We are excited to join Inspera and take our AI grading and feedback technology to new heights. Graide will fit seamlessly into the Inspera platform, or function as a standalone tool for use within an LMS, ensuring that educators are able to save time, mark efficiently, and provide the best possible feedback to students all within their regular workflow.”

About Inspera – inspera.com
Inspera is a global leader in digital assessment software solutions for educational institutions, professional organisations, and awarding bodies. Inspera offers the most innovative, reliable, and secure online assessment platform, accompanied by the necessary expertise to ensure successful organisation-wide implementation and rollout. Founded in 1999, Inspera has grown into a global digital assessment leader, working with higher education institutions and awarding bodies across over 160 countries with in excess of 20 million submissions completed using the software per year.

About CGE Partners – cge-partners.com
CGE Partners is a private equity firm investing in information, data and software businesses that are shaping the future of their industries. Founded in 2018 and based in London, the firm invests in companies operating within global megatrends – from the energy transition and artificial intelligence to compliance, resource efficiency, digital learning, and the productisation of intelligence. With a proven team of entrepreneurially minded investors with experience across a range of sectors globally, CGE Partners backs the vision of founders and CEOs, supporting companies on their unique journeys to scale with confidence and unlock their full potential.