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KnowledgeLake

knowledgelake.com

KnowledgeLake provides an integrated AI platform for document processing, workflow automation, RPA, and content management.

HQSt. Louis, Missouri, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$65M
2 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
Data Engineering
Business
Software Applications
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Enterprisesand 1 more customers values
  • Governments
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Data Engineering
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises, Governments
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Not classified
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
$50M-$200M

About

KnowledgeLake builds a cloud-native, AI-powered enterprise automation platform that unifies intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, and content management. It sells primarily to document-intensive organizations in government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services, differentiating through a single integrated platform, context-aware AI, low-code tools, and integrations with existing enterprise systems.

Market

KnowledgeLake competes in the enterprise document-processing, intelligent document processing, workflow-automation, and adjacent ECM/BPM markets, which its investor describes as a $70 billion-plus opportunity. It positions itself as a Microsoft-native, end-to-end cloud document-AI operational layer that combines capture, classification, extraction, routing, content management, and RPA rather than requiring customers to stitch those capabilities together. Its differentiation is Azure-native deployment with tenant-controlled data, integrations into systems such as SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics, Epic, and REST/webhooks, plus context-aware AI, no-template extraction, audit controls, and reported 98%+ production accuracy.

Target Customers

KnowledgeLake primarily targets mid-sized government agencies and enterprises with document-heavy, high-volume operations, especially in financial services, education, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and shared services. The likely buying center is operations or shared-services leadership working with IT, content-management, and process-automation stakeholders to improve productivity, compliance, and workflow throughput.

At a Glance

Problem

KnowledgeLake addresses the operational burden of high-volume, document-driven work, where capture, OCR, workflow, and content management are often fragmented across difficult-to-deploy systems. The company says legacy solutions required extensive time, customization, and specialized expertise, while fragmented workflows create limited visibility and multi-vendor complexity. The clearest killer use case is automating document-heavy processes such as invoices, claims, statements, and other business records from intake through classification, extraction, review, and routing. The economics are material: company-reported customers process documents 70% faster, achieve 98% data accuracy, and save millions of dollars annually.

Product / Service

KnowledgeLake is a cloud-native enterprise content management platform that combines intelligent document processing, workflow automation, robotic process automation, and content management in one interface. It accepts content from scanners, email, SharePoint, drives, APIs, and mobile sources; uses context-aware AI to classify documents without templates, extracts structured data, reasons about items such as purchase-order matches and exceptions, and routes work into systems including SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Epic, and case-management platforms.

The delivery model is an integrated, scalable SaaS platform built on major cloud providers and designed to work with Microsoft 365 and existing enterprise systems. Its value proposition is to replace stitched-together tools with a single operational layer that improves processing speed and accuracy, gives organizations confidence-scored and auditable outputs, and reduces the cost and complexity of automating document-centric processes.

Market

KnowledgeLake competes in the enterprise content management and broader document-processing market, spanning intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, and content management. The company positions itself against fragmented or multi-vendor stacks that require customers to connect separate capture, OCR, workflow, and repository products. The supplied materials do not name specific competitors, so the most supportable comparison is against those legacy and stitched-together alternatives rather than against particular vendors. The market is described as exceeding $70 billion across document processing and workflow automation, with particular relevance to mid-sized government agencies and enterprises.

KnowledgeLake is not pre-revenue. It reports more than 220 customers and over two million users across government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services, including the States of Tennessee and Kentucky, US Imaging, Washington University, and New Belgium Brewing. The company also reports SaaS revenue growth above 50% year over year, 95% gross dollar retention, 130% net revenue retention, a 99% renewal rate, and five Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, indicating meaningful commercial traction and expansion within existing accounts.

Founders & Leadership

Ron CameronFounder
Advisor (co-founder)
Billy BiggsChief Executive Officer
Jason BurianChief Customer Officer
Brad PorterChief Technology Officer
Russ MalzChief Revenue Officer
Abigail AmundsonHead of Marketing
Kris KauffeldHead of Finance

Funding History

2020-04
Debt$1M

PPP (reported participant; lead status not specified)

2021-03
Debt$1.4M

PPP

2025-08
Private Equity / growth investment$65M

Edison Partners

Recent News

2026-09-10other
KnowledgeLake named a Disruptor in the 2026 Infosource Global Capture & IDP Vendor Matrix

KnowledgeLake announced that it was named a Disruptor in the 2026 Infosource Global Capture & IDP Vendor Matrix. The report evaluates vendors on strategy and capabilities as well as execution in the market, and describes KnowledgeLake as a Capture & IDP SaaS pioneer expanding into RPA, content management, and workflow technology.

2026-06-10exec_change
KnowledgeLake gets new CEO a year after securing $65M

Billy Biggs took over as CEO of KnowledgeLake, an AI document-processing software company backed by Edison Partners.

2025-12-17partnership
Learn about KnowledgeLake's transactable partner solution in Microsoft Marketplace

Microsoft highlighted KnowledgeLake as a partner offering a transact-capable solution in Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to purchase the solution directly through the marketplace.

2025-08-20funding
KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies

KnowledgeLake raised $65 million to expand its AI-native, agentic automation platform. The company provides tools for capturing, classifying, managing, and securing content in cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and SharePoint.

Active Roles

2
Remote/Operations/242d ago
Remote/Sales/242d ago

Business Model

KnowledgeLake primarily monetizes an enterprise SaaS platform through recurring customer contracts, including multi-year agreements. The available evidence reports SaaS revenue growth and retention metrics but does not disclose a definitive standard price list.

Products

KnowledgeLake PlatformIntelligent Document Processing: capture, classification, extraction, and routingWorkflow Automation and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Synthetic Labor

Customers

Vantage Bank TexasUS Imaging

Tech Stack

Microsoft Azure cloud-native SaaSAI/ML, including LLMs and NLPIntelligent document processing with OCR, barcode reading, classification, and data extractionRPA and workflow orchestrationMicrosoft 365, Teams, Office 365, and SharePoint integrationsREST APIs and webhooks

Competitors

Laserfiche
UiPath Agentic Automation
SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation Platform
Microsoft 365/SharePoint
Oracle
Hyland OnBase

Key Investors

Edison Partners; Plymouth Growth