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Jaden Schaefer

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AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

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AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I'll probably cover it in the show if it's an interesting thing that I feel like applies to everyone.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

All right, let's get into what's going on with Gumloop.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

This is a really interesting company.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

It was started by Max Broder-Erbass.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

He's one of the co-founders.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And they started back in 2023.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And I kind of gave you the idea, the overview of what they're trying to do.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

But basically, they're just trying to help automate some of the more tedious parts of a job with AI.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

When they first launched, I think it was very ambitious and it was definitely a lot more experimental.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And I remember seeing this company come out of the gate and

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Uh, it's, you know, something that was ambitious, but I didn't really know if they're going to be able to pull this off.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I think that has changed a lot.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I've been impressed.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Um, at the time back then, there was actually a bunch of other companies that were doing demos and stuff, and some of them did not make it.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

But Gumloop has done a pretty good job.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

They're used by Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, um,

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Instacart, Opendoor, a bunch of other of these big players are actually using them.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And they essentially deploy agents that are doing complex stuff, multi step workflows, and you don't need an engineer.

AI in Business
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So instead of having to write the code, you can just build these agents visually, similar to what I'm working on with AI box.ai, my own startup.