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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, Sema4.ai.\n\nRob Bearden is co-founder and chief executive of Sema4.ai, an enterprise AI agent company that bought Robocorp in January 2024. He earlier co-founded Hortonworks and ran it as CEO, was CEO of Docker in 2019 and then of Cloudera, which he led through its sale to KKR and CD\u0026R. He was also president and COO of SpringSource and JBoss.\n\n## What Rob builds\n\n- [Robocorp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.md), graded B, 65.5/100, in Desktop \u0026 mobile app control. Robocorp's open-source automation stack for Python, now run by Sema4.ai, with libraries for Windows desktop, cross-platform desktop, browser and document automation. Tasks run locally through `rcc` or Python, with Control Room as the hosted orchestrator. Co-founder and CEO, Sema4.ai, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Benchmark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/benchmark/)\n- [Mayfield](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mayfield/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rob Bearden?\n\nRob Bearden is co-founder and chief executive of Sema4.ai, an enterprise AI agent company that bought Robocorp in January 2024. He earlier co-founded Hortonworks and ran it as CEO, was CEO of Docker in 2019 and then of Cloudera, which he led through its sale to KKR and CD\u0026R. He was also president and COO of SpringSource and JBoss.\n\n### What does Sema4.ai make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Robocorp from Sema4.ai. Robocorp's open-source automation stack for Python, now run by Sema4.ai, with libraries for Windows desktop, cross-platform desktop, browser and document automation. Tasks run locally through rcc or Python, with Control Room as the hosted orchestrator.\n\n### Who has invested in Sema4.ai?\n\nThe sources our research read name Benchmark and Mayfield.\n\n### How are Rob's tools graded?\n\nRobocorp is graded B, 65.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://sema4.ai/contact-us/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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