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2022. Luminai gets $16M investment for customer support RPA-like tool



Luminai, which offers customer support RPA software, has secured $16 million in Series A funding. What Luminai does now is record a video of a user navigating between various systems. Using the Luminai recorder, we monitor the clicks and keystrokes and our software can identify if an API is available or not and then replicate that exact workflow in the background. Customers describe it as a macro on steroids, but what truly distinguishes it from standard RPA tools is its ability to connect to API gateways when they are accessible. What sets it apart is that we are effectively merging RPA with traditional API-based integration.


2021. Mimica, which automates RPA, raises $6M



In a universe where even the most mundane clicks and keystrokes might feel like cosmic drudgery, Mimica has emerged to save the day (or at least a few months’ worth of business analysts’ sanity). Armed with a freshly minted $6 million Series A funding, Mimica’s brainchild, Mapper, boldly ventures into the wild and woolly frontier of “process discovery.” Here, it doesn’t just watch your employees’ every click and keystroke; it learns, maps, and creates the kind of process diagrams that used to make analysts weep with frustration (and occasionally despair). In a spectacularly meta twist, Mimica automates the automation itself, equipping RPA teams to deploy bots that breeze through the cosmic tedium of data entry, form-filling, and claim and ticket wrangling, leaving humans free to ponder more existential questions, like why we even invented paper forms in the first place.

2021. Salesforce announces new Mulesoft RPA tool based on Servicetrace acquisition



When Salesforce announced it was acquiring German RPA provider Servicetrace last month, it appeared that it could complement MuleSoft, the company the CRM giant purchased in 2018 for $6.5 billion. MuleSoft, among other functions, assists clients in creating APIs for legacy systems, while Servicetrace offers a means to introduce automation to these systems. Indeed, the company revealed today that it plans to launch a new MuleSoft-Servicetrace tool named MuleSoft RPA. The Servicetrace acquisition was finalized on September 2nd and the company is swiftly integrating it into its operations — with MuleSoft integration being a key application.


2021. ‘No code’ test automation platform, Leapwork, fires up with $62M



Copenhagen-based process automation and RPA platform Leapwork has secured Denmark’s largest-ever $62 million Series B funding round. The tools place a particular emphasis on software testing, targeting enterprises’ quality assurance and testing teams. Leapwork asserts that by utilizing its no-code technology — a term describing software designed to be accessible to non-technical staff, thus enhancing its utility and adaptability — businesses can achieve a 10x faster time to market, 97% productivity improvements and a 90% decrease in application errors. The broader claim is that it can help enterprises achieve quicker digital transformations using only their existing in-house expertise.


2021. Salesforce steps into RPA buying Servicetrace and teaming it with Mulesoft



Salesforce has ventured into the RPA space by having acquired the German RPA company Servicetrace. Salesforce plans to integrate Servicetrace into Mulesoft, the company it purchased in 2018 for $6.5 billion. Once Servicetrace is incorporated, it should complement Mulesoft’s API integration capabilities, adding an automation layer to Mulesoft’s toolkit. While Einstein, Salesforce’s artificial intelligence layer, enables companies with more modern tools to automate certain tasks, RPA is better suited for legacy operations and this acquisition could be another step toward helping Salesforce bridge the gap between older on-premises tools and more contemporary cloud software.


2021. Process mining software startup Celonis snares $1B



Celonis, the advanced process mining software startup, has announced a $1 billion Series D funding round. The company’s process mining software is positioned at the forefront of the process automation hierarchy, which encompasses robotic process automation, no-code workflow tools and other solutions to enhance automated workflows for businesses. It’s quite feasible that the company could develop additional components or utilize the new capital to acquire talent and capabilities, something that Rinke recognizes as achievable with this level of funding.


2021. Laiye, China’s answer to UiPath, raises $50M



In a move that would make even the most jaded Vogon bureaucrat blink twice, Laiye, a company that rather gleefully specializes in software designed to automate the humdrum activities of workplace life — things like keyboard thwacks and mouse nudges — has scooped up a cozy $50 million in Series C funding. With the chaos of COVID-19 sending most office collaboration into a tailspin, companies are now clambering over each other for RPA tools that can handle the kind of repetitive tasks that seem to have been devised as a cosmic joke. By some improbable stroke of fortune, Laiye reports it even hit positive cash flow on the RPA side and actual profitability with its chatbot business in the fourth quarter of 2020. Clearly not one to shy away from a good intergalactic takeover, Laiye is now spreading its services across Asia, the United States, and Europe. It has staffed up to around 400 employees, with footholds in China, Singapore, and the U.S., and they’re gearing up to take on Europe too. If there’s a mind-numbing task that needs doing, Laiye’s got a bot for that.


2021. ServiceNow acquired RPA startup Intellibot



In a move as bold and inevitable as Vogons planning hyperspace bypasses, the IT service management vendor ServiceNow has joined the ranks of companies hurtling towards the great automation unknown by acquiring India-based startup Intellibot. This acquisition arrives at that odd juncture where businesses, faced with the bleakness of endless human-driven monotony, are scrambling to hand over these tedious, brain-melting tasks to bots designed with the single-minded purpose of making workflows hum along. With this new robotic power, ServiceNow can now embed RPA directly into its platform, all the while staying open-minded enough to welcome bots from other realms, should a customer whimsically desire them.


2021. Microsoft’s Power Automate Desktop is now free for all Windows 10 users



Microsoft is making Power Automate Desktop, its enterprise-level tool for creating automated desktop-centric workflows, accessible to all Windows 10 users at no cost. Power Automate Desktop is what Microsoft refers to as its “attended Robotic Process Automation” solution, but you can think of it as a macro recorder on steroids. It includes 370 prebuilt actions that help you create workflows across various applications, but its true strength lies in allowing you to develop your own scripts to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Users interested in trying Power Automate Desktop can now download it from Microsoft, but in the upcoming weeks, it will be integrated into Microsoft’s Insider Builds for Windows 10 and eventually become a built-in feature of Windows 10, down to the standard Windows Home edition.


2021. Infinitus launches with $21.4M for voice RPA aimed at healthcare companies


RPA startup called Infinitus is coming out of stealth to apply this concept to the world of healthcare. Infinitus uses “voice RPA” to become the machine-generated voice that makes calls from, say, healthcare providers or pharmacies to insurance companies to go through a series of questions (directed at humans at the other end) that typically need to be answered before payments are authorized and other procedures can take place. Those conversations are then ingested into Infinitus’s platform to parse them for relevant information that is input into the right fields to trigger whatever actions need to happen as a result of the calls.