Automation Startups

Almond manufactures Axol, a dual-arm robot designed for physical AI applications in real-world industrial and construction work. The robot is assembled in San Francisco and available for customer deployment.

4 investors

Aside is an AI-powered browser that enables autonomous agents to complete web-based tasks across logged-in websites without integrations, including payments, messaging, and internal tools. It provides memory of browsing context, secure credential management for agents, and runs locally with hardware-backed encryption.

4 investors

Item is an AI-native CRM designed to replace traditional customer relationship management systems, built for high-growth companies and teams in go-to-market operations. The platform integrates data from over 100 tools and enables autonomous AI agents to execute sales, support, and success workflows while keeping teams organized with familiar interfaces.

4 investors

JITX builds software that automatically designs printed circuit boards, letting engineers specify boards using code. It serves hardware and electronics engineers in the circuit board design and automation space.

4 investors

Manifold provides a platform for freight carriers and brokers to identify, bid on, and automate quoting for spot freight loads from customer portals and email. The platform combines manual bidding tools with AI-driven automation to help teams manage load opportunities and optimize pricing across multiple sources.

4 investors

Mindee provides an AI-powered OCR API that extracts structured data from documents including invoices, receipts, passports, and other formats, converting unstructured documents into JSON with high accuracy. The platform serves businesses across industries that need to automate document processing workflows without requiring model training.

4 investors

Parallel develops AI agents for hospital administrative workflows, specifically automating medical coding tasks to increase coding speed and accuracy while integrating with existing hospital systems.

4 investors

Quantstruct automates software documentation creation and maintenance by integrating with development tools, codebase events, and support channels to generate and update technical documentation. It serves software development teams and organizations that need to keep their documentation current across multiple tools and workflows.

4 investors

Tracecat is an open source security automation platform that enables security teams to build AI agents and automate incident response workflows across their security tools. It replaces legacy SOAR systems by allowing analysts to create custom agents that triage alerts, correlate telemetry, and execute containment actions across SIEM, EDR, MDM, and identity platforms.

4 investors

Waddle Labs provides an API that connects to robots and, from a natural-language prompt, uses AI agents to generate a control policy for the robot to carry out the requested task. The product targets robotics developers and operators.

4 investors

Zeon Systems builds robotic infrastructure for scientific laboratories, enabling automation of flexible and adaptive experiments through perception, control, and manipulation capabilities. The platform serves research scientists and AI systems evaluating scientific tasks in physical environments.

4 investors

Dexter uses AI to analyze supplier invoices and contracts for procurement teams, identifying opportunities to reduce spending through consolidation and detection of off-contract or leaked expenses.

3 investors

DryMerge provides AI agents that automatically capture customer interaction data from email, calendar, calls, and messaging tools, updating CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot without manual data entry. The platform serves sales teams, asset managers, and business operations teams across industries.

3 investors

Elevate provides data integration and automation software for private equity firms and portfolio companies, enabling system integration acceleration and automated close processes.

3 investors

Keystroke is a platform for building specialized agents and workflow automations that integrate with coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, allowing users to build actual TypeScript code that lives in their repository and deploy to the Keystroke platform for credential management, logging, and access control.

3 investors

Lark provides AI-powered testing infrastructure for engineering teams that can test UIs, APIs, SDKs, and async workflows through natural language tests. The platform integrates with CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, and alerts teams via Slack, email, or PagerDuty when tests fail.

3 investors

LumiBot provides a video-AI copilot system that tracks hand movements to assist workers in manual manufacturing operations. The platform uses computer vision to monitor and guide operator actions in real-time.

3 investors

Morphle Labs builds robotic microscopy systems that automate the diagnostic analysis of cancer samples in laboratory settings.

3 investors

Neuron Industries builds Cortex, an AI-native industrial controller that replaces the traditional PLC, HMI, historian, and vendor IDE in a single device, letting controls engineers describe machine behavior in plain English and generate auditable real-time Python code. The platform serves industrial automation and controls-engineering teams working on machines, skids, retrofits, and production lines, with a built-in browser IDE, wiring discovery, robot control, on-device historian, and simulation-based testing.

3 investors

Notte provides browser infrastructure and APIs for AI agents and automations to interact with websites and web applications. The platform offers distributed browser sessions, authentication management, and task automation capabilities designed for developers building AI-powered web automation tools.

3 investors

Ramain provides agentic process automation that uses AI agents to automate manual UI tasks across web and desktop applications by visually interacting with screens, eliminating manual data entry and system handoffs. The platform targets enterprise teams working with disconnected legacy systems and web portals that lack API integrations.

3 investors

Rapidfolio automates manual processes for the financial industry using AI. The company was founded by the team behind Sable, a fintech that provided credit products to underbanked Americans.

3 investors

Saleswhale offers an AI sales assistant that qualifies leads through two-way email conversations and hands off only qualified leads and meetings to sales teams. It also automates CRM data entry, enriches prospect data, captures referrals and rejection reasons, and manages lead assignment for sales organizations.

3 investors

Tenor builds managed AI "workers" that own defined jobs across a company — each with a role, manager, permissions, tools, and configurable workflows — so users describe an outcome in plain language and the worker builds and executes the workflow. It also ties AI spend, completed work, and human interventions to business outcomes so leaders can measure ROI on AI worker use.

3 investors