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Automat

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Automat delivers managed AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, documents, and repetitive back-office operations.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$19.25M
7 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 17h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$10M-$50M

About

Automat builds AI-enabled RPA and document-processing agents that help operations teams at enterprises and late-stage startups automate repetitive workflows. Its differentiation is managed, natural-language automation with AI agents, self-healing runs, and a claimed 10× faster development cycle at one-tenth the price of traditional automation software.

Market

Automat competes in enterprise robotic process automation, agentic process automation, and intelligent document processing, focusing on browser- and software-based workflows across operationally intensive industries. It positions itself as an AI-native, managed alternative to traditional low-code RPA: users can submit videos, process documentation, or natural-language instructions, while Automat’s team and AI agents build and validate the automation. The company claims a speed and cost advantage over incumbents, while differentiating through self-healing runs, human review, simple deployment, and cloud or on-premise execution.

Target Customers

Automat targets operations teams at small and medium-sized businesses as well as large enterprises, with especially strong use cases in mortgage and lending, insurance, manufacturing, and e-commerce and retail. Typical buyers and users include COOs, operations leaders, and enterprise process owners seeking to automate document-heavy, repetitive workflows without building a large automation team.

At a Glance

Problem

Traditional automation software is slow and expensive, creating a barrier for companies that want to automate work without building a large technical team or committing a substantial budget. Automat positions the pain as both operational and economic: manual business processes remain difficult to scale, while legacy automation tools require too much time and money to deploy. Its central use case is turning an operator’s existing workflow into automation, particularly for work involving browser interfaces, documents, and legacy systems.

Product / Service

Automat provides AI agents that operate computers in a human-like way: they see screens, read documents, click buttons, and navigate legacy systems. Instead of requiring an operator to program every step, the company allows the operator to demonstrate the workflow they want automated, using its patented demonstration-to-automation technology to make the process accessible to both nontechnical operators and engineers.

The delivery model is fully managed: Automat’s forward-deployed team and proprietary agentic infrastructure manage and guarantee the workflows. The intended benefit is reliable automation that can be scaled across an organization, with the company claiming a tenfold speed advantage and roughly one-tenth the price of traditional automation software.

Market

Automat competes in enterprise automation, spanning click-based robotic process automation, intelligent document processing, and newer AI-agent products. It presents itself as a modern alternative to legacy RPA vendors such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism, while targeting enterprises that still need to automate workflows across existing interfaces and systems.

The available evidence indicates that Automat is beyond the pre-revenue stage, although the revenue figure is a third-party estimate rather than an audited company disclosure: Latka reported estimated 2025 revenue of $1.9 million in ARR. Automat’s own materials also announce $19 million in total funding, providing evidence of investor traction and continued commercial development.

Founders & Leadership

Lucas OchoaFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Gautam BoseFounder
Co-Founder & CTO

Funding History

2023-09
Seed$3.75M

Initialized Capital

2025-11
Series A$15.5M

Felicis

Recent News

2025-11-22funding
Automat: $15.5 Million Series A Closed To Advance Fully Agentic Enterprise Automation

Automat secured a $15.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with participation from Initialized Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator, plus follow-on investment from K5 Global and Input Capital. The round brought the company’s total funding to $19.25 million.

2025-11-21
AI startup Automat raises over $15 million in Series A to build computer-operating agents

American Bazaar reported that Automat raised $15.5 million in Series A funding to build AI agents capable of operating computers like humans. Felicis led the round, joined by Initialized, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, K5 Global, and Input Capital.

2025-11-19funding
Automat Raises $15.5M Series A

Automat announced a $15.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with participation from Initialized, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator, plus follow-on funding from K5 Global and Input Capital. Alongside the financing, Automat announced early access to its platform, which combines UI agents, document extraction, and API integrations.

2025-11-19funding
Reinventing Automation for Ease, Reliability, and Adaptability

Felicis announced that it was leading Automat’s Series A, describing Automat as a platform for turning instructions into AI agents that perform computer-based work. The post provides investor-side coverage of Automat’s agentic automation approach.

Active Roles

7
San Francisco/Engineering/184d ago
San Francisco/Sales/196d ago
San Francisco/Forward-Deployed Engineer/196d ago
San Francisco/Design/196d ago
San Francisco/Sales/196d ago
San Francisco/Sales/196d ago
Applied AI Engineer$175k – $220k
San Francisco/Engineering/196d ago

Business Model

Automat sells enterprise automation through flexible subscription and usage-based plans, including platform, API, document-extraction, human-in-the-loop, migration, and on-premise capabilities. Its managed offering also includes building, testing, validating, and supporting customized automations for customers.

Products

Managed AI-agent and RPA workflow automation platformVideo, screen-recording, SOP, and natural-language workflow intakeAI Document Extractor and Document Studio for intelligent document processingWorkflow management with observability, analytics, self-healing retries, and human-in-the-loop reviewCloud or on-premise deployment with API endpoints and UI triggers

Tech Stack

Large language models (including ChatGPT)Computer visionNatural-language process instructionsVideo and screen-recording process captureChrome/browser-based robotic process automation (RPA)Intelligent document processing (IDP)Third-party application integrations and APIs

Competitors

UiPath
Ocrolus
Automation Anywhere
Blue Prism
Microsoft Power Automate
ServiceNow
MuleSoft

Key Investors

Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures