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BotCity

YC W22

San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · 35 employees · 10 known investors

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BotCity provides a centralized platform for managing Python scripts created by AI or human developers, offering orchestration, monitoring, security controls, and governance capabilities.

Also known as BotCity Holdings Limited · BotCity

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W22)

BotCity was founded in 2020 by Lorhan Caproni and Gabriel Archanjo.

LCLorhan Caproni
Lorhan CaproniCo-Founder & CEOHe previously founded Phomenta, an educational social enterprise operating across multiple countries, and holds a background in molecular biology and administration.
GAGabriel Archanjo
Gabriel ArchanjoCo-founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)He has spent 15 years in software development, holding roles as software engineer, technical lead, and CTO, including early work at game studios on Nintendo and Sega platforms, and subsequently worked on AI-based solutions after completing a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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Marcia SanzovoCOO

Investors · 10

Astellalisted by AstellaSão Paulo

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Four Rivers GroupreportedSan Francisco

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MyAsiaVCreportedSeattle

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Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$12M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2021–2025

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

BotCity offers an enterprise software platform for governing Python code across an organization. The company frames its market around the premise that Python has become the primary language produced by AI tools, business users and technical teams, resulting in large numbers of scripts running inside enterprises without centralized oversight. Its platform is intended to give organizations visibility into and control over that script ecosystem.

The product line has two components. BotCity Sentinel targets governance of scripts written by non-professional or "citizen" developers on company endpoints: it discovers and maps Python scripts, monitors executions in real time (including runs in native interpreters, IDEs and Jupyter notebooks), attributes scripts to users, machines and business areas, enforces custom policies and library authorization, scans for vulnerabilities, flags suspicious activity and retains a backup copy of each script for audit and intellectual-property purposes. BotCity Orchestrator targets technical teams running business-critical Python automations, providing a CI/CD pipeline with code versioning and security checks, isolated and reproducible runtime environments with pinned dependencies, scheduling with dependencies and triggers, load balancing across runners, batch processing with retries and parallelism, logging, alerts, notifications and integrations.

Business model

Enterprise software platform sold as two products (Sentinel and Orchestrator) that customers can adopt separately depending on where they encounter Python governance needs; the site directs prospects to book a demo. [0]

Traction

The site lists enterprise customers and features a testimonial from Bayer stating that BotCity underpins its citizen developer initiative with hundreds of participants worldwide. [0]

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Positions itself as a Python and AI governance specialist, framing the growth of AI-generated Python and citizen development as the driver of demand for centralized visibility and control. It cites use by enterprises including Bayer, where an AI & Digital Intelligence manager describes BotCity as the platform behind the company's citizen developer initiative involving hundreds of people worldwide under a global governance program. [0]

Technology

The platform detects and monitors Python script execution across endpoints in multiple runtime contexts (native interpreter, IDE, Jupyter notebook), applies policy and library-approval controls, performs vulnerability scanning and suspicious-activity analysis, and stores script copies. The orchestration side provides CI/CD deployment pipelines, versioning, isolated runtime environments with pinned dependencies, scheduling, load balancing across runners and batch processing with retries and parallelism. [0]

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales with demo requests, customer success stories used as references, and presence at industry events such as the Gartner CIO & IT Executive conference in São Paulo (21-23 September 2026). [0]

Large enterprises with Python running across their organization, addressed through two buyer profiles: IT and governance owners responsible for citizen developers using Python on endpoints, and technical teams operating business-critical Python automations in production. [0]

Geography

Website content is presented in English with Portuguese-language event promotion for São Paulo, Brazil; the referenced Bayer citizen developer program is described as global. [0]

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
HeadcountAug 202667

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Sep 2026
BotCity to appear at Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference, São Paulo

The company promotes its participation in the Gartner CIO & IT Executive conference held 21-23 September in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
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▸Research sources · 1

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Frequently asked questions

What does BotCity do?
BotCity sells an enterprise platform for governing, orchestrating and monitoring Python scripts and automations.
Who founded BotCity?
BotCity was founded by Lorhan Caproni, Gabriel Archanjo in 2020.
Who are BotCity's investors?
BotCity's investors include Alexia Ventures, Astella, Firestreak Ventures, Norte Ventures, Y Combinator, Four Rivers Group, MyAsiaVC, SoftBank Group and 2 more.
How much funding has BotCity raised?
BotCity has disclosed $12M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is BotCity headquartered?
BotCity is headquartered in San Francisco, US.