Adept AI Funding History

Adept AI developed ACT-1, a model that turns text instructions into actions in software. Members of its founding team later joined Amazon.

Company Overview

Adept AI

Founded 2021 · San Francisco, California, US

Mar 14, 2023
Series B
US$350 million · $1B valuation
Led by General Catalyst. Participation included Addition, Greylock.
Source · adept.ai ↗
Apr 26, 2022
Series A
US$65 million
Led by Greylock, Addition.
Source · adept.ai ↗

David Luan
Co-founder and CEO of Adept AI; previously at Google, OpenAI and Stitch Fix.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Augustus Odena
Co-founder of Adept AI; previously at OpenAI.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Maxwell Nye
Co-founder of Adept AI; Stanford PhD.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Erich Elsen
Co-founder of Adept AI; previously at Google and DeepMind.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Kelsey Szot
Co-founder of Adept AI; previously at OpenAI.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Ashish Vaswani
Co-founder of Adept AI.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Niki Parmar
Co-founder of Adept AI.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04

Model that translates language instructions into actions in software interfaces.

Details and Sources

Status: unknownReviewed: 2026-11-05