RPA

UiPath finds firmer financial footing with pivot to general automation and AI

UiPath was a startup darling with a $35B valuation, but the public markets proved rougher until the company diversified its product line.

Y Combinator-backed Automat turns videos into workflow automations

Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose were hired together out of college at Google Creative Lab, Google’s tech and culture incubator, and spent three and a half years launching products like the AI Test K

Quandri raises $8.5M Series A to bring process automation to insurance brokers and agencies

Robotic process automation (RPA) has been a buzzword for a while now, but most of the tools that try to help businesses automate their workflows tend to be generalists. Quandri, a Vancouver, Canada-ba

8Flow.ai raises $6.6M to automate customer support workflows

Working in customer support often means navigating disjointed tools to find data and solve issues. However, many of these actions are routine and repeatable, making them ideal candidates for automatio

Today’s cost-conscious business climate could give RPA a boost

One way to make your staffing cheaper is to reduce it. Another is to make it more productive. That's where robotic process automation comes in.

Is the RPA market in trouble?

Automation Anywhere, one of the largest RPA vendors, raised debt instead of equity. Is that cause for alarm in the market?

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

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

Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additiona

UiPath acquires London-based NLP startup Re:infer

Robotic process automation (RPA) company UiPath has acquired Re:infer, a London-based startup that’s developing natural language processing (NLP) tools for enterprises. Terms of the deal were no

RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms

Proving that there’s room in the robotic process automation (RPA) market for another vendor, RPA Supervisor today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital wit

Bardeen raises $15.3M for browser-based workflow automation

The advantages of software that automates everyday workflows don’t have to be spelled out. In theory, it’s a major labor saver — not to mention wallet-friendly. But perhaps because a

Luminai (formerly DigitalBrain) gets $16M investment for customer support RPA-like tool

The founders of DigitalBrain have quite a back story. A pair of immigrants living in a hacker house in San Francisco, the two paid bills for a time by competing at hackathons and winning. When they ca

Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

It’s the belief of some analysts that the market for robotic process automation, which leverages AI to automate certain software tasks, is headed toward consolidation. A recent Forrester Researc

TechCrunch+ roundup: Creating financial models, UiPath’s plummet, pitch deck pro tips

Did UiPath's valuation get hit by the same shrink ray affecting other software companies, or are other factors at work?

Getting to the bottom of UiPath’s plunging valuation

Just over a year ago, UiPath was among the most favored startups in the world. Last February the company raised a massive $750 million round at a staggering $35 billion valuation. The robotic process

Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings

Signaling its ambitions in the process automation market, Microsoft has acquired Minit, a Bratislava, Slovakia-originated process mining technology vendor, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announ

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

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 up smaller vendors. Yet

Automation Anywhere expands into process discovery with FortressIQ acquisition

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 discove

Workato storms to a $5.7B valuation after raising $200M for its enterprise automation platform

The race to automate the world of business is on, and today one of the bigger players in the market has picked up another major round of funding to meet that demand to speed up work, reduce some of th

Propelo raises $12M for its AI-driven engineering excellence platform

The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software development processe
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