# Anthony Goldbloom

> Anthony Goldbloom is an Australian entrepreneur, investor and econometrician who founded Kaggle, led it through its 2017 acquisition by Google, joined AIX Ventures as an investment partner and now serves as co-founder and CEO of Sumble. His new company applies a knowledge graph and large language models to public business data, seeking to give sales teams usable context about organizations rather than another flat list of leads.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Sumble
- **Organizations:** Sumble, Kaggle, Google Cloud, AIX Ventures, Reserve Bank of Australia, Australian Treasury, The Economist
- **From:** Melbourne, Australia
- **Nationality:** Australian
- **Education:** First-class honours degree in Economics and Econometrics, University of Melbourne
- **Known for:** Founded Kaggle, a machine-learning competition and data-science community that joined Google Cloud in 2017., Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Technology in 2011 and 2012., Named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 in 2013.

## Career timeline

- **2007-2008** — Worked as an economist in the economic modeling unit of the Australian Treasury.
- **2008** — Completed a three-month journalism internship at The Economist in London; interviews for a predictive-modeling story helped inspire Kaggle.
- **2009** — Worked in the research department of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
- **2010** — Founded Kaggle and launched its machine-learning competition platform.
- **2017** — Kaggle joined Google Cloud; Goldbloom continued leading Kaggle after the acquisition.
- **2021** — Joined AIX Ventures as an investment partner focused on early-stage AI companies.
- **2022** — Left Kaggle and Google after leading Kaggle for roughly twelve years.
- **2022-2024** — Co-founded Sumble with Ben Hamner and developed the product before its April 2024 launch.
- **2025** — Sumble emerged from stealth with $38.5 million in disclosed seed and Series A funding.
- **2026** — Published practical Sumble guides for account scoring and role-specific prospect research while expanding the team.

## Achievements

- Founded Kaggle, a machine-learning competition and data-science community that joined Google Cloud in 2017.
- Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Technology in 2011 and 2012.
- Named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 in 2013.
- Received the University of Melbourne Alumni of Distinction Rising Star Award in 2013.
- Delivered a 2016 TED talk on automation and novel work that has accumulated more than three million plays on TED.
- Co-founded Sumble, which emerged from stealth in 2025 with $38.5 million in disclosed funding and 19 enterprise customers.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Shared Sumble's approach to account scoring as infrastructure for sales, marketing and revenue operations, alongside hiring for enterprise account executives.
- **2026-02** — Published role-specific Sumble guides for commercial, enterprise and strategic account executives and sales development representatives.
- **2025-10** — Sumble emerged from stealth and announced $38.5 million in funding, including a $30 million Series A led by Canaan Partners.
- **2024-11** — Published analysis using job-post data to examine Amazon's broad generative-AI investments.
- **2024-10** — Published Sumble research arguing that data cleaning, processing and analysis was an overlooked generative-AI use case.

## Links

- Website: https://sumble.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoldbloom
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/antgoldbloom

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