Bardeen is an AI-powered workflow automation platform that combines agentic web scraping, AI search, contact enrichment and lead qualification to help sales, operations and growth teams build targeted prospect lists and automate repetitive web tasks. The product has evolved from a browser-based automation extension into a broader "Work Intelligence" platform with AI agents that can plan and run multi-step workflows across SaaS tools.
Core capabilities include scraping data from web pages, enriching contacts with firmographic and email data, qualifying leads with AI, and triggering downstream actions in tools like Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack and Notion. The platform aims to replace stitched-together manual prospecting workflows that traditionally require multiple tools and human effort.
Bardeen was founded in 2020 by Artem Harutyunyan (CEO) and Pascal Weinberger. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has positioned itself in the agentic automation category alongside competitors such as Zapier AI, Make, Relay and emerging AI agent startups.
The company raised an oversubscribed $15.3 million Series A in 2022, led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors 468 Capital and FirstMark Capital, plus angel investors. Praveen Akkiraju of Insight Partners joined the board following the round. Public reporting does not confirm Founders Fund as a Series A investor for Bardeen.
Bardeen differentiates through its browser-native architecture, deep focus on sales and growth use cases, and a steady pivot toward agentic automation that can autonomously orchestrate workflows. The company has launched its Work Intelligence Platform to push further into AI agents that automate the act of building automations themselves.