Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2023CEO / Founder
João MouraEmployees
11-50Funding
Series A — $18MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.7/10Website
crewai.com/Profile updated
CrewAI Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company founded in 2023 by João Moura. The company develops a framework and platform for orchestrating multiple AI agents that collaborate to complete complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. Its products are used by enterprises seeking to automate workflows that require coordination across several AI models or tools.
CrewAI offers two primary products: an open-source Python framework that allows developers to define agent roles, goals, and task sequences, and CrewAI Enterprise, a commercial cloud platform that adds centralized deployment, monitoring, access controls, and security features. The open-source repository gained significant traction on GitHub, accumulating tens of thousands of stars within months of release. Use cases span customer support automation, data analysis pipelines, and internal process automation across industries including finance, healthcare, and technology.
The company raised a $18 million Series A round in 2024, with participation from investors including Insight Partners and others. As of 2024, CrewAI employs fewer than 50 people. The open-source framework's rapid adoption positioned the company as a notable entrant in the multi-agent orchestration space, competing with offerings from LangChain, Microsoft AutoGen, and other agent framework providers.
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Who CrewAI Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
The most widely adopted agent-orchestration framework; LangGraph's graph-based state machine competes directly with CrewAI's role-based "crew" abstraction for building multi-agent LLM apps.
Microsoft's open-source multi-agent conversation framework, competing for the same developer mindshare and increasingly folded into Azure AI tooling.
Visual, low-code platform for building and orchestrating LLM agents/workflows, appealing to teams that want a GUI instead of CrewAI's Python-first framework.
Drag-and-drop builder for LLM and multi-agent workflows; competes for teams that prefer visual orchestration over CrewAI's code-defined crews and tasks.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in CrewAI Inc.'s history, with sources.
Partners with Konecta to power agentic AI in contact-center operations
The deal builds Konecta's Agentic AI model on CrewAI's Agent Management Platform (AMP) to help clients industrialize agentic use cases.
businesswire.comCrewAI framework reaches 1.0.0 stable release
The GA release followed a month of alpha/beta versions and marked the framework's transition from rapid iteration to a stable, production-supported API.
pypi.orgPartners with SambaNova on an open-source Deep Research agent framework
The framework runs on SambaNova's RDU chips instead of GPUs, aiming to generate research reports faster and at lower cost than closed-model alternatives.
siliconangle.comJoins the Cloudera Enterprise AI Ecosystem
The partnership integrates CrewAI's orchestration into Cloudera's data lakehouse platform for agentic ETL and cross-organizational reporting use cases.
cloudera.comLaunches CrewAI Enterprise cloud subscription platform
Built on top of the open-source framework, the enterprise layer added access controls, analytics, support and workflow templates for production multi-agent deployments.
globenewswire.comRaises $18M across an inception round and a Series A led by Insight Partners
Boldstart Ventures led the inception round; other participants included Craft Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, Andrew Ng and HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah.
globenewswire.comCrewAI open-source framework repository created on GitHub
João Moura published the initial multi-agent orchestration framework that would become CrewAI's core open-source product.
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