RPA

What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universally accepted definition of agent, but these…

How RPA vendors aim to remain relevant in a world of AI agents

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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.

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

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…

Y Combinator-backed Automat turns videos into workflow automations

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,…

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

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 automation.…

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

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.

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

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?

Is the RPA market in trouble?

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

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…

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

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 not disclosed. Founded out…

UiPath acquires London-based NLP startup Re:infer

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…

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

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 automating…

Bardeen raises $15.3M for browser-based workflow automation

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…

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

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 Research report…

Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

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

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

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…

Getting to the bottom of UiPath’s plunging valuation

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 announced today. Microsoft says that…

Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings

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

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…

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

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

Timing is everything in healthcare — yet too often diagnoses, treatments and procedures are held up by paperwork, administrative red tape between patients, clinicians, carers, bookkeepers, insurance companies and others…

Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up healthcare admin, raises $100M at a $600M valuation

This year automation hit center stage when robotic process automation (RPA) vendor UiPath went public after raising $2 billion in private investment. Investors who had been a part of that…

We’ll be discussing why it’s automation’s moment at TC Sessions: SaaS on Oct. 27th

The robotic process automation (RPA) market has been red hot over the last year, and one of the market’s pioneers, Blue Prism, was sold to Vista Equity Partners for £1.095…

RPA industry consolidation continues with sale of Blue Prism to Vista for £1.095B

When Salesforce announced it was buying German RPA vendor Servicetrace last month, it seemed that it might match up well with MuleSoft, the company the CRM giant bought in 2018…

Salesforce announces new MuleSoft RPA tool based on Servicetrace acquisition

UiPath came seemingly out of nowhere in the last several years, going public last year in a successful IPO during which it raised more than $527 million. It raised $2…

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk RPA and automation

Over the last couple of years, robotic process automation or RPA has been red hot with tons of investor activity and M&A from companies like SAP, IBM and ServiceNow. UIPath…

Salesforce steps into RPA buying Servicetrace and teaming it with MuleSoft

We’re off today to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday in the United States. I hope you have a safe and relaxing weekend.

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Traditional firms might approach an RPA initiative as they have other business initiatives, which is slowly and carefully. But to reap the benefits of automation at scale, companies need more…

How to launch a successful RPA initiative

We spoke to five investors to find out more about RPA. The general consensus? We’re just getting started.

5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO