Most AI agents are still built for one person.
They are good at exploratory work and local automation. Company operations require long-running processes across teams, systems, and human decisions.
Result: non-technical teams have a few individual contributors who use local agents for basic automation. They do not have a way to graduate to automating an entire process at the team/company level.
Pump Up is building the harness, infrastructure, and human interfaces required for company-wide agent operations.
Team
We are serial founders based in San Francisco. We previously built Datapane, which was the most popular way for data teams to share reports across 5,000+ companies, like Peloton, Barclays, and JPMorgan.
Before that, we were the founders of NStack/StackHut, an early serverless platform built on the first versions of Kubernetes, which helped enterprises like HEB, TripAdvisor, and Thermo Fisher, deploy and integrate ML models into their systems.
Leo Anthias
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously was the Co-Founder and CTO of Kivo as part of the Y Combinator S13 batch, and Co-Founder and CEO of Datapane and NStack.
Mandeep Gill
Co-Founder & CTO
Previously Co-Founder and CTO of Datapane and NStack. Mandeep completed his PhD in CS at Oxford, where his research focused on building programming languages and LLVM-based compilers for high-performance numerical simulation.
Investors
- Acequia Capital
- Aglaé Ventures
- Backed
- Barney Hussey-Yeo
- Charlie Songhurst
- Essence VC
- IA Ventures
- Jordan Wan
- Jude Gomila
- Rosco Hill
- Tuesday.vc