Creatio is a Boston-based enterprise software company that builds an AI-native, no-code CRM and workflow automation platform. Founded in 2002 (originally as bpm'online) and rebranded in 2019, Creatio achieved unicorn status in 2024 with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $200 million in Series B funding. The platform serves 7,000+ customers across 100 countries in 23 languages, enabling organizations to automate business workflows and manage customer relationships without writing code. With 45% year-over-year growth in 2024, Creatio competes against Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics by offering faster implementation, composable pricing, and deeply integrated agentic AI capabilities across its Sales, Marketing, and Service modules.
Alessio Alionco is the Brazilian-born founder and CEO of Pipefy, a San Francisco-based AI-driven process automation platform he built from scratch in 2015. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Harvard OPM alumnus, and Endeavor Entrepreneur, he turned a front-row view of chaotic enterprise workflows into a company with 4,700+ deployed AI agents, partnerships with Accenture, and over $225M in total funding. His prior venture, Acessozero, grew to 1 million users before being acquired by Brazilian local-search giant Apontador in 2012 - a deal that planted the seeds for Pipefy.
Pipefy is an AI-powered, no-code business process automation platform that lets non-developers in finance, HR, procurement, IT and customer service design, run and govern complex workflows. Founded in 2015 by Alessio Alionco in Curitiba, Brazil and now headquartered in San Francisco, it serves thousands of corporate customers in 150+ countries.