Adept — Startup Profile

AI systems that act across software interfaces

HQ: San Francisco, CA | Founded: 2022 | Employees: Not publicly disclosed | Stage: Strategic-pivot / private AI company | Website: https://www.adept.ai

About

Adept was founded to build AI that can use software tools and interfaces for people. After raising a large Series B, Amazon hired several Adept leaders and employees in 2024 while licensing parts of the company's technology.

Adept's current operating scope should be treated as evolving.

The Take

Adept helped define the computing powerr-using-agent category, but its 2024 transaction with Amazon shows how difficult it is for heavily funded application labs to scale independently. It remains relevant as a technical and strategic case study in agent commercialization, not a straightforward growth-company comp.

Key Metrics

Founded: 2022
Founders: David Luan; Ashish Vaswani; Niki Parmar; Kelsey Szot; Anmol Gulati
Latest signal: Amazon hires Adept leaders and licenses technology
Products: 2

Funding Rounds

Round: $350M (2023-03) — General Catalyst and Spark Capital

Key People

David Luan
Augustus Odena
Maxwell Nye
Erich Elsen
Kelsey Szot

Key Competitors

Incumbent platforms —
Specialist startups —

Timeline Highlights

2023-03: Series B
2022: Founded

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