Bardeen
San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · Delaware corporation · 27 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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Bardeen is an automation and workflow platform that connects to CRMs, communication, lead generation, and customer success tools to automate repetitive tasks like data entry, outreach, and reporting. It is aimed at go-to-market teams including sales, customer success, revenue operations, sales engineering, and sales leadership.
Also known as Bardeen Inc. · Bardeen.ai
Founders & leadership
Bardeen was founded in 2020 by Pascal Weinberger and Artem Harutyunyan.
Board
Investors · 5
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$18.8M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2022–2024
▶$18.8MraisedMay 2022 · 13 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Pascal WeinbergerExecutive Officer, Director
- Florian LeibertDirector
- Artem HarutyunyanExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $18.8M
- Amount sold
- $18.8M
- First sale
- Apr 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2020
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Bardeen is a San Francisco-based software company that builds AI agents and no-code automation for repetitive knowledge work. Its core product is a browser extension that runs on any web page and executes workflows across web apps, either from pre-built templates or from custom automations built on a no-code canvas. Users can trigger automations by shortcut, right-click, schedule, or app-based triggers, and can describe desired workflows in natural language for the system to generate them.
The current positioning centers on go-to-market lead generation: an agentic web scraper that extracts data from websites, AI-powered web search for researching and generating leads, contact enrichment to obtain verified contact details, and AI qualification that ranks leads against a described ideal customer profile. Results can be exported to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion, and the product integrates with CRMs such as HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive as well as productivity and generative-AI tools. Vertical solutions are marketed for solopreneurs, real estate, music, recruiting, private equity, and event services.
In May 2025 the company announced a Work Intelligence Platform, a system of AI agents intended to learn how work is performed and then execute and improve those processes with minimal user guidance. The company states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CASA Tier 2 and 3 certifications, and says retrieved data from connected applications remains in the user's browser.
Founding story
Bardeen was founded in 2020 by Pascal Weinberger and Artem Harutyunyan, with the stated aim of letting people reclaim time by handing repetitive tasks to automation.
Business model
Bardeen sells a self-serve, credit-based software subscription distributed largely through a browser extension, with a free tier and paid plans; adoption is driven by individual users and small teams rather than centralized IT purchasing.
Credit-based subscription tiers, reported as a free plan with 100 credits per month, a Basic plan at $10 per month, and a Premium plan at $50 per month, with in-app purchases available through the browser extension.
Traction
The Chrome extension reports about 200,000 users with a 4.4 rating from 451 reviews, and the company markets more than 1,000 pre-built automations and no-code scraping across 100+ popular websites. Customer testimonials cite reductions in prospecting and research time. A third-party estimate places annual revenue between $1M and $10M and headcount at roughly 27 as of July 2026.
Latest developments
In May 2025 Bardeen launched its Work Intelligence Platform. Reporting in May 2026 described strategic investments from Dropbox and HubSpot, and its investor FirstMark noted launches of an AI copilot for GTM teams and a business-ready AI agent. The Chrome extension was updated to version 5.0.0 in June 2026. As of mid-2026 the company was described as independent and active, with a browser-native GTM copilot positioning.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Bardeen is positioned as a browser-based orchestration and automation tool in the go-to-market stack, popular with individual contributors and small teams. Third-party analysis characterizes it as a low-cost automation layer with a differentiated in-browser agent wedge, while flagging the difficulty of converting individual adoption into team-level purchasing and competitive pressure from server-side automation platforms adding browser execution.
Bardeen's automation runs inside the user's browser, allowing agents to act on sites and applications where server-side automation tools lack API access, and it is sold at low per-user price points with a free credit tier. Commentary notes the browser-native architecture as a differentiator against server-side workflow tools while also constraining server-side workflow scope.
Technology
A Chrome browser extension paired with a no-code workflow builder, natural-language automation generation via an AI chat interface, an agentic web scraper, AI/web-search-based research, contact enrichment, and AI lead qualification. Integrations span CRMs, spreadsheets, note and database tools, and generative AI providers, with triggers that run automations on events or schedules in the background.
Go-to-market
Distribution is primarily through the Chrome Web Store extension and a freemium funnel, supported by a template/playbook catalog, community forum, tutorials, and content resources. Adoption typically begins with individual contributors such as account executives and RevOps practitioners rather than centralized procurement, and partnerships with CRM vendors including HubSpot support co-marketing and integration reach.
Sales, RevOps, marketing, recruiting and customer success professionals, solopreneurs and small teams, plus vertical users in real estate, music, private equity, and event services; the extension is also used by freelancers, agencies and founders.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with employees reported across North America, Europe, and Asia.
History
Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, Bardeen acquired the meeting-launcher tool Meeter in 2021. It gained early traction via a Chrome extension and Product Hunt recognition, launched an AI automation platform in 2023, received strategic investment from HubSpot Ventures the same year, raised additional funding in 2024, and introduced its Work Intelligence Platform in May 2025. Coverage in 2026 reported strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot and the launch of a business-ready AI agent and GTM copilot.
Risks & controversies
Third-party analysis identifies constraints from the browser-based architecture on server-side workflow scope, difficulty expanding from individual-user adoption to team purchasing, and a comparatively quiet funding and partnership record, alongside competition from Zapier, Make, n8n, Relevance AI, and foundation-model browser agents. Publicly reported funding figures for the company differ across sources.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 1
by search overlap
Companies competing with Bardeen for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 10
launches, deals, and filingsThe Bardeen: Automate Browser Apps with AI Chrome extension was updated to version 5.0.0.
Dropbox invested in Bardeen; coverage reported the AI business agent startup taking strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot.
Investor FirstMark reported Bardeen launching an AI copilot for go-to-market teams and its first business-ready AI agent.
Bardeen announced its Work Intelligence Platform, described as a system of AI agents that learn how work happens and then execute and improve it without hand-holding.
Bardeen integrates directly with Google Sheets and other platforms to enable web scraping without coding knowledge.
Bardeen, a San Francisco-based provider of AI agents that automate repetitive knowledge work through a natural language interface, raised $3M in funding.
$3M source ↗
HubSpot Ventures invested in Bardeen.ai, with the investment intended to expand the strategic partnership and Bardeen's integration with HubSpot for sales and marketing professionals.
Bardeen.ai announced the launch of its AI automation platform.
Bardeen was named #1 product of the month and #2 product of the year on Product Hunt.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Bardeenbardeen.ai · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Bardeen do?
- Bardeen builds browser-based AI agents that scrape, enrich, qualify and automate lead and workflow tasks for go-to-market teams.
- Who founded Bardeen?
- Bardeen was founded by Pascal Weinberger, Artem Harutyunyan in 2020.
- Who are Bardeen's investors?
- Bardeen's investors include Activant Capital, FirstMark Capital, HubSpot Ventures, Insight Partners, 468 Capital.
- How much funding has Bardeen raised?
- Bardeen has disclosed $18.8M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Bardeen headquartered?
- Bardeen is headquartered in San Francisco, US.