process automation

Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts. Other times, it’s more drastic —…

Kognitos raises $20M to help businesses automate back-office processes

UiPath co-CEO Rob Enslin believes that RPA is just the tip of the automation iceberg.

UiPath co-CEO Rob Enslin still sees plenty of potential despite stock turbulence

Proving that workflow automation is a robust sector, AirSlate, which provides no-code tools for automating business processes, today announced that it raised $51.5 million in a funding round that values…

UiPath’s new venture arm backs workflow automation startup AirSlate

Next Matter, a workflow automation platform for business operations, today closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by OMERS Ventures with participation from BlueYard and Crane Venture. The…

No-code tool Next Matter lands $16M to automate business processes

Last year robotic process automation (RPA) was all the rage, as we saw market leader UiPath go public at a huge valuation, while larger more established players began to scoop…

Forrester predicts RPA software market growth will begin to flatten next year

Automation Anywhere, which is best known for its robotic process automation (RPA) software, plans to expand the platform. This morning, the company announced that it intends to acquire process discovery…

Automation Anywhere expands into process discovery with FortressIQ acquisition

Ikigai, a startup based on research out of MIT, wants to make it simple to build workflows with humans involved. Whereas traditional robotic process automation (RPA) is about building bots…

Ikigai gets $13M to build automated workflows with humans in the loop

Copenhagen-based process automation platform Leapwork has snagged Denmark’s largest-ever Series B funding round, announcing a $62 million raise co-led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures, with existing investors DN Capital and…

‘No-code’ process automation platform, Leapwork, fires up with $62M Series B

Celonis, the late-stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5 billion in its Series C…

Celonis snares $1B Series D on $11B valuation

When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017, it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise software called robotic process automation (RPA).…

UIPath’s meteoric rise from unknown startup to $35B RPA juggernaut

Celonis has made its name as a process discovery company, helping companies understand the way work flows through its systems to expose inefficiencies, but up until now the company has…

Celonis pushes beyond process mining into automated workflow tooling

Camunda, a Berlin-based company that builds open-source workflow automation software, announced a €25 million (approximately $28 million) investment from Highland Europe today. This is the company’s first investment in its…

Camunda hauls in $28M investment as workflow automation remains hot

FortressIQ, a startup that wants to bring a new kind of artificial intelligence to process automation called imitation learning, emerged from stealth this morning and announced it has raised $12…

FortressIQ raises $12M to bring new AI twist to process automation
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Bots replacing office workers drive big valuations

10:12 am PDT • September 29, 2018

A lot of people still get paid to sit in offices and do repetitive tasks. In recent years, however, employers have been pushing harder to find ways to outsource that…

Bots replacing office workers drive big valuations