When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At that time, the concept of AI agents was still largely experimental and prone to errors.<\/p>\n
As AI technology has matured, so has Gumloop\u2019s offering.<\/p>\n
The company claims that it now allows teams at organizations like Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Samsara, Instacart, and Opendoor to deploy reliable AI agents that autonomously handle complex, multistep tasks, all without ever needing an engineer.<\/p>\n
Employees can share the agents they build with colleagues, creating a compounding effect that accelerates internal automation. \u201cThey get addicted, they start building more agents, and then all of a sudden, the whole company is AI native,\u201d Brodeur-Urbas told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
As companies race to adopt AI, Benchmark general partner Everett Randle believes the key to success lies in empowering every worker with AI superpowers, and Gumloop\u2019s intuitive agent builder is an example of the kind of tool that will unlock that potential.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why Randle, who joined Benchmark last October from Kleiner Perkins, chose to lead a $50 million Series B investment into Gumloop. The deal, which is Randle\u2019s first at his new firm, included participation from Nexus VP, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, The Cannon Project, and Shopify.<\/p>\n
Though Gumloop wasn\u2019t actively seeking new capital, the startup decided this was the year to \u201cstep on the gas.\u201d For Brodeur-Urbas, partnering with Benchmark \u2014 the firm behind icons like eBay, Uber, and Dropbox \u2014 was a \u201cno-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While Brodeur-Urbas previously planned to \u201cbuild a 10-person, billion-dollar company,\u201d the surging demand from enterprise clients has compelled him to build a dedicated sales force and scale up his engineering team, he said.<\/p>\n
Gumloop is by no means the only player vying to turn every knowledge worker into an AI agent-builder. The startup faces stiff competition from established automation platforms like Zapier and n8n, as well as specialized agent builders like Dust. Even foundational AI labs are entering the fray. \u00a0For instance, Anthropic\u2019s Claude Cowork allows users to create autonomous agents without writing a single line of code.<\/p>\n
But Randle believes Gumloop is superior to all its rivals. During his due diligence, he discovered that at least one of the company\u2019s customers had adopted Gumloop somewhat organically.<\/p>\n
When Randle asked a CTO how they chose Gumloop, the response was telling. The company had given employees full access to Gumloop alongside two competitors. Six months later, staff were using Gumloop daily or weekly, while the competing tools sat untouched, Randle told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
The reason Gumloop gained such momentum, according to Randle, is its minimal learning curve. \u201cYou can go in and start making agents and workflow automations immediately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
While many AI startups worry that foundational models will replicate the same functionality and render them obsolete, Randle is convinced that Gumloop\u2019s model-agnostic approach is precisely what will keep attracting customers.<\/p>\n
As models continue to evolve, one may perform better than another for a specific task. So, Gumloop provides the flexibility to choose the model best suited for the job at any given moment.<\/p>\n
Another reason why model independence is attractive, according to Randle, is cost. \u201cPlenty of enterprises have OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic credits. They want to use all of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
His excitement for the company ultimately comes down to the sheer size of the opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnterprise automation is a massive pot of gold,\u201d Randle said. \u201cI think it\u2019s the biggest category in enterprise AI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,10606,733,4308,169095,1345,169096,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-473890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-agents","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-benchmark-partners","13":"tag-exclusive","14":"tag-gumloop","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}