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Ethena
What Ethena is
Ethena is a compliance platform for employee training, policies, disclosures, and hotline workflows, with AI agents supporting those tasks. Its Training Agent uses disclosure, case, and policy data to tailor training to employee risks. The AI Training Builder can turn a PDF, slide deck, or policy into a course module with slides, images, and knowledge checks. Drafted changes require compliance-team approval before they reach employees, and the Training Agent logs prompts, drafts, reviewer decisions, assignments, and completions with timestamps.
Employees can use Ethena’s hotline to report concerns anonymously; reports are routed and tracked in case management. Courses can be delivered through Ethena’s LMS or as SCORM, with SCORM, AICC, and xAPI file support listed. Ethena’s plan comparison says training is available in 100+ languages, while the Standard overview lists English, Spanish, and French. The homepage states it is SOC 2 Type II certified. Standard includes self-serve onboarding and support; Premium customers can work with a dedicated Customer Success Manager. Pricing is on request, and there is no free plan.
Who it suits
Ethena suits organizations seeking employee compliance training and hotline case management, including companies with as few as one employee. It recommends Standard for organizations with fewer than 100 learners.
What it does well
- Builds course modules from PDFs, slide decks, or policies
- Logs training changes and learner completions with timestamps
- Provides an anonymous employee hotline with case tracking
- Supports SCORM, AICC, and xAPI files
What to know first
- No free plan
- Pricing is available on request
- Some HRIS integrations vary by plan
Limits
Ethena has no free plan. Harassment and Workplace Violence Prevention costs $20 a year per learner, and the Entire Ethena Catalog costs $50 a year per learner. Premium uses flat annual pricing by quote for teams over 100 people; hotline and case management pricing is also on request.
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Harassment and Workplace Violence Prevention | per learner, annually · California · Illinois · Connecticut · Maine · Delaware · New York | $20 a year |
| Ethena | per employee · Cloud SaaS plan listed by TrustRadius | $4 a month |
| Entire Ethena Catalog | per learner, annually · Full catalog including harassment prevention, workplace violence, code of conduct, DEI, data privacy, cybersecurity, HIPAA, anti-bribery, hiring and management essentials | $50 a year |
| Ethena Standard | Teams of all sizes · email, Slack and Zoom Chat reminders · Rippling, Gusto and BambooHR integrations · department, role and location targeting · bite-sized training · English, Spanish and French | On request |
| Ethena Premium | Teams over 100 people · volume discounts · 250+ topics · SCORM · manager dashboards · 50+ HRIS integrations · hotline and case management | On request |
As goethena.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Getting started
- Open the Ethena website
- Contact sales for pricing or select a listed catalog plan
- Connect an available HRIS integration if needed
- Create training from a PDF, slide deck, or policy
- Have the compliance team approve drafted changes
- Deliver courses through Ethena’s LMS or supported file formats
Verdict
Ethena combines configurable compliance training, approval controls, and hotline reporting in one platform. Teams should check with the company for pricing and plan-specific integration availability.
Questions
What does Ethena cost?
Harassment and Workplace Violence Prevention is $20 a year per learner. The Entire Ethena Catalog is $50 a year per learner. Premium uses customized flat annual pricing, with hotline and case management pricing on request.
Does Ethena offer a free plan?
No. Ethena is a paid platform.
Which platforms and delivery formats are supported?
Ethena provides web and API access. Courses can be delivered through its LMS or as SCORM, with SCORM, AICC, and xAPI support listed.
What languages are available?
The plan comparison lists training in 100+ languages. Standard’s overview lists English, Spanish, and French.
Which integrations are available?
Listed HRIS integrations include Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, Workday, ADP, UKG, and HiBob; availability varies by plan.
Who makes Ethena?
Ethena is the maker and states that its platform is SOC 2 Type II certified.
Facts from Ethena's own pages
- AI training agent
- The training agent drafts and previews training changes but requires compliance-team approval before anything is delivered to employees. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API
- Ethena offers an API as an additional Premium product for retrieving learner assignments and completions and building external reports or workflows. · help.goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation
- Ethena links API users to documentation hosted at api.goethena.com/docs/. · help.goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Audit trail
- The Training Agent logs prompts, drafted changes, reviewer decisions, assignments, and learner completions with timestamps. · goethena.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Company founders
- Crunchbase lists Anne Solmssen and Roxanne Petraeus as founders. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as Ethena, Inc. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Ethena in the 51–200 employee range and shows 87 employees on the company page. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Course creation
- The AI Training Builder can turn a PDF, slide deck, or policy into a course module with slides, images, and knowledge checks. · goethena.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Course customization
- Premium users can edit courses, add policies and branding, use AI redlining, upload modules and create courses with interactive elements, quizzes, multimedia and branching. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Disclosure agent
- The disclosures agent manages conflict-of-interest, gifts and outside-employment disclosures, recommends responses and routes judgment calls to compliance staff. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation and support
- Ethena provides a Help Center with integration and setup articles, self-serve onboarding for Standard and a dedicated customer-success manager for Premium. · help.goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn and Crunchbase state that Ethena was founded in 2019. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Funding status
- Crunchbase classifies Ethena as a private Series B company with five funding rounds and 16 investors, while dollar amounts are obscured. · crunchbase.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting region
- Ethena says production personal data is intentionally hosted in the United States or Canada unless the customer directs otherwise. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Hotline
- Ethena’s hotline offers employees a safe, anonymous channel to report concerns, with reports routed and tracked through case management. · goethena.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Hotline and case management
- Premium includes anonymous or identified reporting, two-way reporter communication, case assignment and status tracking, internal notes, PDF exports and an optional global phone line. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Human approval
- Training changes are drafts and do not reach employees until the compliance team approves them. · goethena.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Supported integrations include Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, ChartHop, Workday, ADP, HiBob, UKG, Paylocity, Namely, Humaans, TriNet, Slack, Zoom Chat, Vanta and many other HRIS, directory and LMS systems. · help.goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Ethena states that its courses are available in more than 100 languages and can be localized for global teams. · goethena.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: assignment and notifications
- Reviewers mention annual reassignment annoyances, frequent notifications without preferred-time controls and limited control over required video-watch percentage. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: customization and interface
- G2 review analysis identifies limited features, data-management issues, limited customization and a need for stronger visual interface improvements. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: custom upload workflow
- That Capterra reviewer says uploads can be difficult when content is not packaged as a ZIP file. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: reporting scope
- G2 reviewers report that director-level views cannot easily show completion across an entire multi-level organization and that manager insights mainly cover direct reports. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- LMS delivery
- Premium plan courses are available through Ethena’s LMS or as SCORM, and the page lists SCORM, AICC, and xAPI file support. · goethena.com, 7 Oct 2026
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