69 Best Automation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Automation Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 421 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $15.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $228.8m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$60.6m

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READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

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$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

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$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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$267.5m

Money raised

Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

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$21.8m

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A software company offering a low-code development platform for creating mobile business forms.

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$97.8m

Money raised

Mighty Buildings is a company working in the construction industry with 3D printing technology and advanced composite materials, funded by Y Combinator.

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$1.0b

Money raised

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

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$1.2m

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Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.

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$100.9m

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AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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8

Funding Rounds

$251.1m

Money raised

H2O.ai is the creator of H2O, an open-source machine learning and artificial intelligence platform.

6

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$53.9m

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Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

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$25.5m

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Itential is an Atlanta-based network company developing intelligent network automation tools for multi-domain networks.

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$97.8m

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Directly is a San Francisco-based developer of artificial intelligence systems of customer experience and chatbots founded by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier and Jeff Patterson.

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$102.5m

Money raised

ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.

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6

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$96.3m

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Anomali is a Redwood City, California-based cybersecurity company offering real-time threat intelligence capabilities.

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$568.0m

Money raised

An insurance technology company offering artificially intelligent software for insurance fraud detection and claims handling.

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$57.5m

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OpsRamp is an IT Operations management software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

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$80.0m

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Kindred AI is a company founded in 2014 by George Babu, Geordie Rose, James Bergstra and Suzanne Gildert.

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$286.6m

Money raised

SparkCognition is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.

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$1.1m

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Macondo Vision is an AI platform provider specializing in computer vision systems for tracking objects and workers' actions and providing machine learning-based analytics.

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$1.3b

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An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

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$12.0m

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Amplemarket provides lead generation, email outreach, and lead qualification on autopilot.

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$727.4m

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Fivetran is a California based data software company that helps analysts use cloud data warehouses to store and access their data.

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$190.7m

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Ada is a brand interaction platform that enables the automation of conversations with customers and employees via an AI-based chatbot.

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$1.8b

Money raised

Automation Anywhere is a company developing cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software.

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8

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$101.4m

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Synthetic biology company that uses AI, DNA synthesis, and robotics to discover biological molecules.

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10

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$36.3m

Money raised

Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.

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$17.4m

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$305.0m

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Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.

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$7.9m

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A software company headquartered in San Francisco, California providing spreadsheet workflow automation software for businesses.

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Funding Rounds

$238.9m

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HyperScience is a AI enabled company for office work company founded in 2014 by Peter Brodsky, Krasimir Marinov and Vladimir Tzankov.

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$34.7m

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Gideon is a robotics company that creates products for industrial settings.

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$247.0m

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Swimlane is the developer of a security organization and response platform that allows businesses to automate their security.

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$2.5b

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Tipalti automates the way companies pay suppliers, partners, publishers and employees with cloud-based solutions which addresses all phases of the payables workflow.

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$48.8m

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Kontron is a company developing embedded computing technologies (ECT) with a portfolio of solutions for secure hardware, middleware, and services for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

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$613.7m

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ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.

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5

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$11.9m

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R3 Printing is a company offering 3D-printed products.

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$217.0m

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Takeoff Technologies provides an automated grocery fulfillment solution for grocers.

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$100.4m

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A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

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$310.0m

Money raised

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken.

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$186.1m

Money raised

Hosted programming platform for developing with public APIs.

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$225.0k

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Fellow AI is a Mountain View Acres, California-based company providing computer vision and robotics solutions for automating supply chain tasks.

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$42.3m

Money raised

Pliant is a company offering a workflow orchestration and infrastructure automation platform.

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$45.0m

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Decisions is a no-code business automation platform focusing on process automation as well as data handling and business rule execution.

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$232.9m

Money raised

Opentrons is a company building robots to automate experiments of life scientists.

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$41.3m

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Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.

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$138.7m

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Pipefy is a software company offering a workflow management and process improvement platform.

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$18.2m

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A company offering a platform for automatically building, running, and maintaining web application QA testing.

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$71.8m

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Alpaca is a company that supplies a trading platform designed for investors and traders. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Mateo, California.

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$76.0m

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Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.

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$32.5m

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IFTTT is a smart-home technology company and software, focused on connecting Internet-of-Things enabled smart devices.

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$11.5m

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An artificial intelligence company with a focus on developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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$533.9k

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Online Shop is a platform for users to develop e-commerce stores.

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$233.6m

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Mythic is a U.S-based artificial intelligence hardware and software company.

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$21.0m

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A company that develops material-handling technology for manufacturing and warehouse logistics.

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$208.0m

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Rethink Robotics developed and patented Sawyer, a robot that can replace human labor where danger is likely or difficult.

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$475.0m

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Receivables and Treasury cloud software, powered by AI to optimize working capital.

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$19.7m

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Tango is a software development company that has developed an extension for digital documentation purposes.

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$98.0m

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A global provider of camera-first, AI powered self-driving technology, formerly AdasWorks.

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$72.0m

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AlgoSec is a Ridgefield Park, New Jersey-based developer of network security software automating security policy management and business applications and ensuring security compliance.

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$41.6m

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A biotechnology and industrial automation company. It was founded in 2010 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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4

Funding Rounds

$149.0m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company that is developing the technology to automate computer numerical control milling machines. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2015.

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$92.0m

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A company offering a service engagement platform using artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to digitally transform backend processes and conversational interfaces.

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$351.5m

Money raised

An infrastructure company for self-driving cars. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2017.

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$133.0m

Money raised

Blue Ocean Robotics develops, produces and sells professional service robots in healthcare, hospitality, construction, agriculture and other global markets.

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$27.8m

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Hotelmize is a platform designed to improve the pricing and booking process of hotel rooms using big data analysis.

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$101.6m

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Automata is a technology company working to automate physical work. It is based in London, England and was founded in 2015.

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$79.0m

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Figure is a robotics company specializing in building humanoid robots for deployment into the workforce.

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$191.6m

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Konux provides operation automation solutions based on machine learning and IoT for the railway industry.

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