StartupHub.ai · Jul 2026
StartupHub profile estimating Bubble Lab's revenue and summarizing the company's product and market position.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Bubble Lab is a Y Combinator-backed, San Francisco-based startup building Slack-native AI workflow automation. Public materials describe Pearl as the core product: a system that turns plain-English prompts into production-ready workflows across a large app stack, with an open-core engine that can also be self-hosted; the homepage additionally frames the company around community-operations infrastructure.
Primary product
Pearl, a Slack-native AI workflow automation platform
Founded
2025
Headquarters
1201 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI workflow automation
Offices
1201 Tennessee Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Business model
open-core
subscription SaaS
enterprise/custom
Funding
Stage
accelerator/incubator
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Accelerator/Incubator · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Mar 2026 · Y Combinator
Dec 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Founder-led and public-facing; the company emphasizes fast shipping, open-core software, Slack-native automation, and production-ready TypeScript workflows that can be observed, exported, and self-hosted.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium/open-core SaaS with tiered monthly plans and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —Open-core engine that can be self-hosted
- —Workflows export to TypeScript
- —Slack-native Pearl assistant
- —49+ app integrations
- —Execution tracing, logs, and observability
- —MCP server for Claude Desktop/Claude Code/Cursor
- —Plain-English workflow creation
- —Commercial hosted layer on top of an Apache-2.0 engine
Technology
TypeScript
Python
Shell
MCP
Slack
Stripe
Google Workspace
Gmail
Jira
Notion
HubSpot
Linear
PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Anthropic Claude
Customers
Rho (reported by StartupHub.ai)
Dyna (reported by StartupHub.ai)
Corgi (reported by StartupHub.ai)
premium professional communities
career networks
investor communities
operator collectives
ops/growth teams
Competitors
Zapier
Make
n8n
LangGraph
HubSpot automation tools
Slack workflow tools
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$286K-$773K estimated annual revenue (StartupHub.ai estimate; midpoint about $510K; 66% confidence)
Estimated monthly visits
1K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
StartupHub.ai · Jul 2026
Third-party analysis describing Bubble Lab as an open-core workflow builder that compiles to production-ready TypeScript and discussing its differentiation, distribution, and competitive risks.
LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Selina Li announced Bubble Lab MCP, positioning it as a direct execution layer for Claude Code and emphasizing that workflows still land in the Bubble Lab dashboard.
Forbes · Mar 2026
Forbes highlights Bubble Lab among promising YC W26 startups and frames it as a Slack-based workflow automation company.
Y Combinator · Feb 2026
YC launch announcing Pearl, a Slack-native assistant that deploys into Slack and automates operational workflows across tools like Notion, Jira, Stripe, and Google Workspace.
Jobs and careers at Bubble Lab
8 jobs at Bubble Lab
Engineering Manager
Remote
Engineering
NYC, New York; New York City, New York, United States
4w ago
Remote
Full-time
Software Engineer II, Backend
Remote
Engineering
Remote; NYC, New York, United States
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Account Manager
Remote
Success
NYC, New York
5mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Product Manager, AI
Remote
Product
NYC, New York
5mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Technical Product Support Specialist
On-site
Success
NYC, New York
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Applied AI Engineer
On-site
Engineering
NYC, New York
11mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Core Developer Experience
Remote
Engineering
Remote
1y ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Remote
Engineering
NYC, New York
1y ago
Remote
Full-time