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BMC Software Runs the World's Batch Jobs at 2am
For 45 years BMC has been the software running quietly behind banks, airlines and mainframes. Now, owned by KKR and split into two companies, it is betting that boring, dependable automation is exactly what agentic AI needs.
Amelia
The enterprise AI agent that answered phones before chatbots were cool - a 26-year-old New York company that became SoundHound's play for the voice-first future of customer service.
Modern
Modern is a San Francisco startup building an AI-native IT function - a single platform where always-on agents automate help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security and procurement inside the tools teams already use, such as Slack, Teams, email and voice. Founded in 2026 by Seb Poole and Aleks Tomovski and backed by Y Combinator (P26), it positions itself as a ServiceNow alternative that resolves requests end-to-end rather than routing tickets, claiming 80%+ automation of inbound IT requests.
Automox
Automox is a cloud-native IT automation and endpoint management company that helps organizations patch, configure, and secure Windows, macOS, and Linux devices from a single platform. Founded in 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, its agent-based, server-free approach automates patch management and vulnerability remediation across distributed fleets, and its Otto generative-AI assistant lets IT teams build automation scripts (Worklets) in plain language. The company serves more than 1,500 customers across 30-plus countries and has raised roughly $154 million, including a $110 million Series C led by Insight Partners in 2021.
Justin Folkers
Justin Folkers is the co-founder and CEO of apiphani, a Boston-based technology-enabled managed services company that runs mission-critical enterprise applications such as SAP using a blend of expert engineers and AI-driven automation. He started the company around 2020 after more than two decades supporting enterprise clients at firms including Virtustream and Capgemini, betting that AI-powered automation would let people focus on meaningful work instead of routine operational tasks. In 2025 apiphani raised a $25 million round led by Insight Partners to expand Luumen, its AI-driven observability and automation platform.
SuperOps
SuperOps is an AI-native IT management platform that folds professional services automation (PSA), remote monitoring and management (RMM), unified endpoint management, service desk, patching, and documentation into one system. Founded in 2020 by Arvind Parthiban and Jayakumar Karumbasalam, it targets managed service providers (MSPs) and in-house IT teams, pitching a single pane of glass that replaces the 10-15 tools an MSP typically stitches together. Backed by $54.4M in venture funding, it added an agentic AI assistant, 'Monica,' and expanded from MSP tooling into internal IT teams with a cross-OS UEM product.
Arganteal Corporation
Arganteal Corporation is an Austin, Texas software company that helps enterprise and government IT teams design, deploy, and manage complex infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. Its patented tools - ADepT for workflow automation and ASCOT for discovering and classifying operational scripts - turn scattered scripting knowledge into reusable, platform-agnostic automation libraries. The company pairs that technology with professional services, claiming to cut deployment time by as much as 90%, and counts the U.S. Air Force among its longstanding partners.
Omnissa
Omnissa is an independent digital work platform company spun out of VMware's End-User Computing business after KKR's roughly $4 billion acquisition closed on July 1, 2024. Led by CEO Shankar Iyer, it builds the autonomous workspace: a unified platform spanning Workspace ONE (unified endpoint management), Omnissa Horizon (virtual desktops and apps / DaaS), and Omnissa Intelligence (analytics and digital employee experience), increasingly stitched together with trusted, AI-driven automation. The company serves more than 26,000 customers worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500, with about $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue and roughly 4,000 employees.
XOPS
XOPS (legal name XperiencOps, Inc.) is a Menlo Park-based autonomous IT company that emerged from stealth in August 2025 with $40M co-led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures. Billed as the first 'Active System of Intelligence,' its platform builds a living knowledge graph of an enterprise's fragmented IT estate and deploys a legion of goal-oriented software robots that coordinate existing systems - ServiceNow, Workday, Okta, Intune - to drive desired states across employee, device, and software lifecycles. The pitch: declare the outcome you want, and XOPS continuously converges your systems toward it, no tickets, no human middleware.
Anand Prajapati
Anand Prajapati is Co-Founder and CTO of Leena AI, an enterprise agentic AI platform that deploys AI colleagues to automate back-office work across HR, IT, Finance, and Procurement. A graduate of IIT Delhi, Anand built Leena AI's technology from scratch after two earlier startup pivots, guiding the company through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch to a $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Today Leena AI's platform serves 400+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries - including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Sony - resolving millions of employee queries autonomously across 100+ languages.
Asaf Ganot
Asaf Ganot is the co-founder of ControlUp, the company that pioneered the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management category. He spent a decade as CEO building ControlUp from an Israeli VDI monitoring tool into a global enterprise software leader backed by $141M in funding, before transitioning to Executive Chairman and CEO of ControlUp Labs in 2023 to focus on product vision and innovation.
Assaf Resnick
Assaf Resnick is the co-founder and CEO of BigPanda, an AI-powered IT operations platform valued at $1.2 billion. Born in Israel and raised in Silicon Valley, he spent six years as a principal investor at Sequoia Capital Israel before leaving to build BigPanda in 2012. After pivoting from ad-tech and surviving years of near-silence in the market, BigPanda found product-market fit with large enterprises and has raised over $330 million in total funding. Today the company leads the emerging category of agentic IT operations, helping enterprise teams automate the detection, investigation, and resolution of IT incidents.
Mayank Goyal
Mayank Goyal is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (Head of AI) at Leena AI, an enterprise agentic AI platform that automates HR, IT, and Finance support for organizations worldwide. An IIT Delhi alumnus in Production and Industrial Engineering, Mayank co-founded ChatterOn in 2015 with Adit Jain and Anand Prajapati before pivoting to Leena AI in 2017 after noticing large enterprises like Coca-Cola and Vodafone using their chatbot platform for internal support. Leena AI joined Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch, raised $40M+ across multiple rounds including a $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and now serves 500+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries, reaching 3+ million employees. Mayank leads the AI research and product intelligence that powers Leena AI's pre-built AI colleagues - Gavin (HR), Miles (IT), and Harper (Finance).
Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle is Co-Founder and CEO of Treeline, a San Francisco-based startup reimagining corporate IT operations through AI and software automation. A decade-long venture capitalist at Accel who backed companies like PagerDuty, Heptio, and ServiceChannel, Doyle made the leap to operator in 2024. Treeline - backed by $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz - is building what Doyle calls a 'modern IT operating system': an AI-first alternative to the legacy managed service provider model that still powers most of the world's corporate IT infrastructure.