A three-person Utah company assembled the plumbing for an automation program - ideas, bots, controls, analytics and 550-plus connector actions. Its next move was not another dashboard, but an acquisition that folded the stack into qBotica's agentic AI push.

He left a PhD path for the early internet, watched office workers copy data between screens, and spent two decades turning that frustration into Automation Anywhere. Now his bet is larger: AI should change the design of work, not merely add another tool to it.
Bobby Yazdani built and sold a software company, then ranked as the world's top angel investor. With Cota Capital he turned that instinct into a firm that follows one idea through every stage of its life - seed check to public stock.
Metizsoft spent its first decade making commerce work for other companies. Now the Ahmedabad engineering firm is applying that integration muscle to AI agents, automation and a small shelf of software products of its own.
How a spin-off from an Indian computer-training business became a 32,000-person, AI-first services firm - and pulled off the biggest technology-services IPO in over a decade.

Shourya Vir Jain is the co-founder and CEO of RamAIn (YC W26), a San Francisco startup building fast computer-use AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps, and web portals the same way a person would - no API required. An IIT Delhi electrical engineering student turned founder, he is a former McKinsey consultant, previously bootstrapped an AI studio called Genoshi to six figures, and is a FIDE-rated chess player (2118) and karate black belt. RamAIn is backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners and PeakXV.
RamAIn is a San Francisco startup (YC W26) building fast computer-use AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps and web portals the same way a person does - reading the screen, clicking buttons, filling forms - without needing API access or custom integrations. Founded by IIT Delhi dropouts Shourya Vir Jain and Vansh Ramani, it turns any repetitive UI task into a managed, self-healing API and targets enterprise back-office work in procurement, insurance, healthcare and finance.
DynPro Inc. is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based global IT consulting and services firm founded in 1996. It helps Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations orchestrate fragmented data, processes and customer experiences across enterprise platforms, with practice areas in Process Transformation, Data & Integration, and Automation & Advanced Analytics. DynPro implements and integrates SAP, Salesforce, Workato, Snowflake and related cloud ecosystems, and complements delivery with IT staffing and talent solutions from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Morocco.
Automat is a San Francisco AI company building agents that operate computers the way people do. Founded in 2023 by CMU design alumni and ex-Google Creative Lab designers Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose, it pairs a transformer-based RPA engine with intelligent document processing so enterprises can automate manual back-office work - from KYC checks to mortgage disclosures to medical-claims processing - by simply showing the software a recording of the task. It positions itself as a modern, AI-native alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism.
Convey is a San Francisco AI workforce platform that lets non-technical operators build, train, and manage "digital teammates" - AI workers that take over repetitive operational tasks like invoice processing, financial reconciliation, and campaign reporting without any engineering. Founded in 2025 by former DoorDash early engineer Rohan Chopra with Stanford friends Will Harvey and Diego Canales, Convey raised a $38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026 and says it has completed more than one million hours of real work for enterprises including NBCUniversal, Unity, Samsara, and Faire.
Kognitos is a Mountain View-based enterprise AI company that lets business users automate back-office operations by writing instructions in plain English. Its patented neurosymbolic platform, Koncierge, pairs the language understanding of large language models with a deterministic symbolic execution engine, aiming to run automations that are auditable and free of hallucinations. Founded in 2020 by former Nutanix CTO Binny Gill, the company pitches itself as a modern alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath and has raised roughly $85M across seed, Series A, and a $25M Series B.
Luminai is an AI-native workflow automation platform built for the back office of American healthcare. It turns messy, unstructured inputs - faxes, chart notes, insurance forms - into structured data and then runs full administrative workflows like referral intake, patient registration, and denial appeals end to end, with a human in the loop and HIPAA/SOC 2 controls baked in. Founded in 2019 by Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran and Dmitry Dolgopolov, the company started life as customer-support RPA tool DigitalBrain, pivoted entirely into healthcare, and raised a $38M Series B in April 2026 led by Peak XV Partners, with Cleveland Clinic as a flagship partner.
Simular is a Palo Alto-based AI company building autonomous computer-use agents that operate desktops, browsers, and phones the way a person does - clicking, typing, and navigating graphical interfaces. Its open-source Agent S framework and its always-on assistant Sai use a neuro-symbolic approach that turns exploratory agent runs into deterministic, auditable code to reduce hallucinations. Founded in 2023 by former Google DeepMind researchers Ang Li and Jiachen Yang, Simular has raised about $26.5M and posts state-of-the-art results on computer-use benchmarks.
Tuhin Chakraborty is the co-founder and CEO of Mimica, a process intelligence company whose software watches how people actually work - every click and keystroke - and turns that into the process maps enterprises need to deploy AI agents reliably. A former Pandora and LinkedIn engineer who grew up in the Bay Area, he started the company in 2017 with neuroscientist Raphael Holca-Lamarre on a simple bet: capability means nothing in enterprise AI without context. Mimica now serves more than 30 large enterprises, including multiple Fortune 500s, and raised a $26.2M Series B in 2025 led by Paladin Capital Group.
Muchammad Rifky is the Chief Executive Officer for Indonesia at Automation Anywhere, one of the world's leading enterprise automation and AI software companies headquartered in San Jose, California. Leading Indonesia operations for a company with over $1 billion in total funding and nearly 1,900 employees globally, Rifky bridges the gap between Automation Anywhere's cutting-edge AI-driven robotic process automation platform and one of Southeast Asia's largest and fastest-growing markets. His career path - from hospitality sales at Jakarta's top hotels to leading country operations for a Silicon Valley-backed unicorn - reflects the kind of cross-domain journey that defines modern tech adoption in emerging markets.
Vijay Tella is the co-founder and CEO of Workato, a $5.7B enterprise automation platform that has become the integration backbone for over 21,000 businesses worldwide. With 30+ years spent building the middleware plumbing of Silicon Valley - from co-founding TIBCO Software to architecting Oracle Fusion Middleware to selling Qik to Skype - Tella launched Workato in 2013 with a straightforward conviction: integration should be something anyone can do, not just engineers with specialized tools. His book 'The New Automation Mindset' became a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2023, and Workato has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for iPaaS seven consecutive years running.