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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7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

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

15

Funding Rounds

$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.

5

Funding Rounds

$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.

7

Funding Rounds

$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.

6

Funding Rounds

$21.8m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$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.

10

Funding Rounds

$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.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$251.1m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$53.9m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$25.5m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$97.8m

Money raised

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$102.5m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$96.3m

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$568.0m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$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.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

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

12

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$727.4m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$190.7m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$1.8b

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$101.4m

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$305.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$238.9m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$247.0m

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$48.8m

Money raised

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.

6

Funding Rounds

$613.7m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$11.9m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised

Takeoff Technologies provides an automated grocery fulfillment solution for grocers.

8

Funding Rounds

$100.4m

Money raised

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$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.

9

Funding Rounds

$186.1m

Money raised

Hosted programming platform for developing with public APIs.

4

Funding Rounds

$225.0k

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$42.3m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$232.9m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$41.3m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$138.7m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$71.8m

Money raised

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.

6

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.

Key people:

3

Funding Rounds

$32.5m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$533.9k

Money raised

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

10

Funding Rounds

$233.6m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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

12

Funding Rounds

$208.0m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$475.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$98.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$72.0m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$41.6m

Money raised

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

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.

5

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$351.5m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$133.0m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$27.8m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$101.6m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$79.0m

Money raised

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

14

Funding Rounds

$191.6m

Money raised

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

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