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Back in 2022 , João Moura was directing AI engine room efforts atClearbit , a inauguration create a unified hub for business enterprise intelligence tools . There , Moura was responsible for start the growth of AI integrations , as well as defining Clearbit ’s AI product roadmap .
After a twelvemonth , HubSpot acquired Clearbit , and Moura had the itch to go it alone . He ’d founded inauguration before , including Urdog , which sell a smart collar for pets . But this go - round , Moura had a more technically challenging concept in brain .
Moura ’s novel company , CrewAI , place to automate repetitious , back - office task like summarizing reports and onboarding employees . Customers can build workflow mechanisation using CrewAI ’s platform , then deploy and tail them from a fascia .
CrewAI does n’t prepare AI models itself . Rather , the caller taps exemplar from vendors such as OpenAI and Anthropic to drive mechanisation . troupe can build workflow on top of the apps they already use to automate matter like enriching marketing databases , analyzing customer feedback , and forecasting trend .
Moura deliver CrewAI as an alternative to robotic process automation , or RPA . RPA drives workflow automation . But it ’s a much more rigid word form based on “ if - then ” preset rules .
“ We have made it easy for teams to build groups of AI ‘ agents ’ to perform tasks using any framework , desegregate with more than a thousand unlike applications , and to do so in a mode that protect their datum privacy , ” Moura said . “ We encourage our customer to try multiple models and pick the models that provide the good results for specific business organisation use cases . ”
RPA is indeed brittle — and error - prone . A 2022surveyfrom Robocorp , an RPA vendor , found that of the organizations that said they ’d take RPA , 69 % experienced broken workflows at least once hebdomadal . intact businesseshave been made out of helping enterprise wield their RPA installations and prevent them from breaking .
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Of course , AI can break , too — or rather , hallucinateand suffer from the effects ofbias . Still , Moura argues that it ’s a far more live technical school than RPA .
Investors seem to check . CrewAI has raised $ 18 million across seed and Series A round from angel , including Boldstart Ventures , Craft Ventures , Earl Grey Capital , and Insight Partners . Coursera co - beginner and AI enterpriser Andrew Ng has also invested , as has Dharmesh Shah , the carbon monoxide - beginner and CTO of HubSpot .
CrewAI has competition in spade . Orby , Bardeen(which also has support from HubSpot),Tektonic,11x.ai , Twin Labs , andEmergenceare all developing alike AI - powered , business - focused workflow automation products . Traditional RPA vendors like Automation Anywhere and UiPath , meanwhile , are work to comprise more AI tech into their tool inan exploit to stay relevant .
To its mention , CrewAI , which is currently valued at around $ 100 million , has wield to attract a tidy number of customers — 150 — in its first yr . ( CrewAI launched in January . ) And it ’s angling to bring down more with Enterprise Cloud , a new managed subscription plan .
“ We are seeing 100,000 group of multi - AI executions per day across hundreds of unlike use cases , ” Moura said . “ Given our current pipeline , we could be cash - flow - positive by next summer . ”
CrewAI , which is ground in San Francisco and Brazil , plan to use the cash it has raised so far to grow its 16 - person workforce and flourish its core automation product .
