Bardeen Launches First Business-Ready AI Agent as More Workers Embrace Task Automation

By Business Wire On Aug 8, 2024

New product updates and $3M from go-to-market partners drive continued momentum for the company, which has doubled its customer base to more than 300K in the last six months.

Bardeen, a provider of AI agents capable of automating repetitive knowledge work using a natural language interface, announced it has secured $3 million in additional funding from strategic investors Dropbox Ventures and HubSpot Ventures at a higher valuation. The new investment brings the company’s total funding to date to $22 million. The fresh capital will be used to further Bardeen’s vision for a fully autonomous AI that builds time-saving automations for its users.

“At Deel, speed and responsiveness are core to our culture, and by leveraging Bardeen to automate repetitive workflows, our Sales and Operations teams can do more in less time to help serve our customers better”

Nearly all forms of work now have specialized apps, as demonstrated by enterprise app usage increasing 24% since 2016 and larger companies deploying more than 187 apps on average. When used individually, these apps can be invaluable, however more often workers must use dozens of different apps concurrently, which leads to precious hours spent clicking windows, navigating menus and copy-pasting across countless tabs. Existing automation tools and continued AI advancements promise to solve the headache of working across disparate apps, yet most solutions require extensive resources to implement and deliver few tangible productivity improvements.

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Bardeen offers an AI agent platform that’s purpose-built for workers using enterprise apps every day, not IT departments with deep technical knowledge. The company prioritizes usability and pragmatism, combining AI with traditional automation techniques to seamlessly handle repetitive tasks such as copy-pasting, conducting web research and sending emails. In the last six months, Bardeen surpassed 300,000 users and more than 1,000 paying customers, which includes high-growth startups and enterprises like Deel, Miro, Kearney, WPP and 10Web, among others. In addition to providing strategic funding, Dropbox and HubSpot are supportive partners in Bardeen’s go-to-market strategy, helping to reach new customers through their respective channels.

“The pressure to be productive has never been higher, and yet workers are drowning in endless sources of information and AI tools that bring confusion and stress, rather than results,” said Pascal Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of Bardeen. “We provide workers with a clear starting point and roadmap for their essential, daily tasks, and automate those tasks with user-friendly, results-driven AI agents. Our customer growth and backing from the biggest innovators in SaaS productivity like HubSpot and Dropbox are a testament to Bardeen’s positive impact on teams, employees, and freelancers across the globe.”

Bardeen recently introduced significant updates to its AI agent platform, which runs as a browser extension and is context-aware. Most notably, in Bardeen 3.0, AI agents conduct a “planning” step after receiving instructions from the user, something that dramatically increases reliability and accuracy compared to competing tools. Built to support thousands of concurrent automations, Bardeen 3.0 includes:

Enterprise-grade encryption and compliance, including the option to run high-volume workflows in the cloud
A natural language interface that makes building powerful AI automations easy and accessible for all
Proactive suggestions via an automation assistant that continually learns from usage patterns
100 additional integrations with tools like Microsoft 365, most CRMs, and sales outreach and enrichment tools
The ability to share best practices and standardize automated workflows to improve productivity across an entire organization

“At Deel, speed and responsiveness are core to our culture, and by leveraging Bardeen to automate repetitive workflows, our Sales and Operations teams can do more in less time to help serve our customers better,” said Alex Bouaziz, co-founder and CEO of Deel. “It’s been an absolute game-changer to roll out Bardeen’s AI automation across our organization.”

Bardeen is most commonly used by sales teams, creative agencies, recruiters, freelancers and executives at fast-growing companies. The company has grown to more than 30 employees and is actively hiring in multiple roles.

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