# Guru

> Guru is a Philadelphia-based B2B SaaS company that builds an AI-powered knowledge management platform, combining enterprise search, a wiki, and an intranet into a single governed layer of trusted company information. Founded in 2013 by Boomi veteran Rick Nucci and Mitch Stewart, Guru structures and continuously verifies scattered company knowledge so both employees and AI tools get cited, permission-aware answers inside the apps they already use - Slack, Teams, and beyond. The company has raised roughly $68M from investors including Accel, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital and the Slack Fund, and counts Shopify, SeatGeek, Lemonade and TravelPerk among its customers.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Founders:** Rick Nucci (Co-Founder & CEO), Mitch Stewart (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 100-250 employees
- **Products:** Enterprise AI Search, Knowledge Agents, Wiki & Knowledge Base, Intranet / Employee Home, Answers (Generative AI)
- **Notable:** Raised roughly $68M across six rounds from investors including Accel, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital and the Slack Fund, Named to Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2022, Second company from founder Rick Nucci after Boomi, which was acquired by Dell in 2010

## Products & services

- **Enterprise AI Search** — Unified, permission-aware search that connects company tools, chats, and docs and returns cited answers across the workplace.
- **Knowledge Agents** — AI agents that answer questions, verify and un-verify content across connected sources, detect conflicts, and flag stale information automatically.
- **Wiki & Knowledge Base** — A single source of truth where teams author, organize, and verify company knowledge with card-based content and expert verification workflows.
- **Intranet / Employee Home** — A modern intranet layer that surfaces announcements, resources, and knowledge inside the tools employees already use.
- **Answers (Generative AI)** — Generative AI capability that lets teams ask natural-language questions and get synthesized answers from trusted company knowledge.
- **AI Governance** — Enterprise governance layer that structures, permissions, and continuously improves the knowledge that AI tools and agents rely on.
- **MCP Connectivity** — Model Context Protocol integrations (including Slack MCP) that let external AI agents query Guru's governed knowledge and live conversations in real time.

## Achievements

- Raised roughly $68M across six rounds from investors including Accel, Thrive Capital, Emergence Capital and the Slack Fund
- Named to Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2022
- Second company from founder Rick Nucci after Boomi, which was acquired by Dell in 2010
- Adopted by high-growth brands including Shopify, SeatGeek, Lemonade and TravelPerk
- Launched Knowledge Agents with Chat, Research Mode, and MCP connectivity in 2026
- Early mover in AI governance for enterprise knowledge, ahead of the mainstream AI-hallucination conversation

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Guru and Boomi announced a partnership to deliver AI-powered enterprise knowledge enriched by real-time data activation, with Guru as a launch partner for Boomi Connect at Boomi World 2026.
- **2026-03** — Guru launched its Slack Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, letting AI agents query live Slack conversations in real time.
- **2026-01** — Guru rolled out enterprise-grade Chat, Research Mode, and MCP connectivity for its Knowledge Agents, plus automatic verification and un-verification of content across connected sources.
- **2025-01** — Guru announced general availability of its AI-powered enterprise search platform, unifying search across workplace apps.
- **2023-05** — Guru announced Answers, adding generative AI capabilities for discovering knowledge through natural-language questions.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getguru.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getguru
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Guru_HQ
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7YCbKTdp1zvEV-SfTpLZQ

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Last updated: 2026-08-06