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Jaden Schaefer

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

It's interesting to see that for them, it's like one person in a company uses it and they basically are...

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

kind of the person that spreads it to the whole organization.

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

He said that, you know, once someone like this starts building more agents, then suddenly the whole company becomes AI native.

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

That's a quote from him.

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

So I think right now, you know, that vision of putting AI into the hands of every employee is what they're trying to do.

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

trying to do.

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

And that's what drew Benchmark's general partner, Everett Randall, to them.

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

He's the one that kind of spearheaded the investment into them.

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

Randall also is new to Benchmark.

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

He joined it just in October.

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

He was at Kleiner Parkins before.

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

So, you know, Randall's been at a lot of these top VCs and he believes that, you know,

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

everyday workers should have a quote-unquote AI superpower.

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

So that's kind of, I think, why they made this investment here.

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

And of course, $50 million is a big lead.

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

I mean, they didn't put the full $50 million in, but they led this around.

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

It's their Series B investment.

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

And this is also Randall's first deal over at Benchmark.

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

So he's making his mark.

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

And this is a cool, this is an impressive deal.