Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering, business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

Project A Ventures

Tiny Ventures develops, markets, and supports a wide range of internet services.

Tiny Ventures

An early stage, and very biased, European VC fund.

No Label Ventures

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion. Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Benchmark

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investment strategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Lux Capital

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce. The firm was founded in 2015 by Steve Sarracino and has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Berlin, Germany.

Activant Capital

TheTwentyMinuteVC is a twenty-minute VC podcast about finance, business development, and investment.

The Twenty Minute VC

Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, Series A and B startup companies. It serves as pavers for founders, making vital connections for fundraising, talent, customers, and advice. The firm is a dot connector, counting the world’s most visionary investors, founders, and industry leaders as our allies.

Abstract Ventures

Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

HubSpot Ventures invests in early and growth-stage software companies with the potential to deliver unique value to HubSpot’s customer base. We help those companies scale by actively supporting their success in our ecosystem and by providing guidance from our leaders. We back remarkable teams who are building differentiated products in large markets and who share in our mission to help organizations grow better.

HubSpot Ventures

Visionaries Club is a leading European early-stage VC fund with offices in London and Berlin, focusing on B2B with its flagship funds and climate deep tech with its Visionaries Tomorrow Fund. It unites the strongest network of successful digital entrepreneurs as well as Europe’s family business dynasties in a venture capital fund to invest in the next generation of founders.  Visionaries Club is divided into two core funds: A € 150m seed stage fund leveraging its unicorn and digital founder LP base for very early and exclusive access to the most promising entrepreneurs across Europe. A €200m Early Growth fund leveraging especially the fund's industrial family business LP network is intended to support the most promising European B2B companies in their early growth stage from Series B onwards with global reach and scale. The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and has offices in Berlin and London.

Visionaries Club

Operator Partners invests in early-stage technology companies and founders. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Operator Partners

20SALES is a venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage, business-to-business SaaS startups.

20SALES

20Growth

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

11x develops autonomous digital workers to help organizations optimize their processes. The company focuses on simplifying go-to-market (GTM) operations by automating specific roles, allowing businesses to save on hiring budgets. Its primary products include Alice, an AI-powered sales development representative, and Jordan.

11x is a UK-based AI and automation company that specializes in building autonomous digital workers designed to automatically perform tasks and functions. The company’s flagship no-code platform, Platform X, enables users to create, collaborate on, and deploy digital workers of their own. 11xAI also offers pre-built AI agents for a range of tasks, including sales development and inbound lead qualification.&nbsp;

Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

11x.ai

11x Raises $24M in Series A Funding

11x is a UK-based AI and automation company that specializes in building autonomous digital workers designed to automatically perform tasks and functions. The company’s flagship no-code platform, Platform X, enables users to create, collaborate on, and deploy digital workers of their own. 11xAI also offers pre-built AI agents for a range of tasks, including sales development and inbound lead qualification.&nbsp;11x’s AI sales development representative called "Alice" can automate a company's outbound sales process. It leverages a vast amount of ingested data, including more than 500 million leads, to curate lists of the most valuable prospects and craft personalized outbound campaigns, customizing messages to individual leads. Moreover, the company offers an AI phone representative named “Jordan,” which can automate inbound and outbound calls, send emails, and schedule meetings. Users can also provide scripts, recordings, training materials, and access to their knowledge base to train AI agents.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, 11x served a number of enterprise clients such as Otter.ai, Soldom, Kissflow, Gelato, Worksome, and Brex. The platform also integrates with a number of third-party solutions such as Slack, Zoho, LinkedIn, Gmail, and Zoho.&nbsp;

Headquartered in Berlin, Levity provides a no-code development platform (NDP) for building AI models to automate repetitive tasks. The platform is designed for managing customer service, marketing, and operations workflows, which deal with unstructured data such as images, text, and PDFs such as sales quote automation, direct order entry, and customer track and trace. Users can use simple templates to automate workflows and leverage the platform’s modular AI components (called AI blocks) that combine NLP and computer vision to parse unstructured data types.Levity offers 4 “AI blocks,” which enable users to create deep learning models based on their data to extract, classify, summarize, and generate text. Although the models come pre-trained out of the box, Levity allows users to fine-tune each model based on their requirements.Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2023, Levity has automated workflows at companies such as HP, Mr. Beast, Reformation, Hear.com, BerlinCusine, and Gelato.It provides integrations with business applications such as Gmail, Outlook, and Zendesk.Funding and financialsIn October 2022, Levity <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13740">raised USD 8.3 million </a>in seed funding, co-led by Balderton Capital and Chalfen Ventures to expand its employee base and invest in product development.

Levity

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 Danish company Leapwork offers a no code workflow automation platform that uses robotic process automation to design, manage, and scale workflows. The company&rsquo;s design &lsquo;language&rsquo; uses flowcharts to graphically represent steps in a workflow and allows users to record processes, validate steps, and input data where needed. The platform also allows users to build web apps, desktop apps, and mobile web and virtual desktop solutions to automate workflows. Moreover, Leapwork&rsquo;s automation solutions can be integrated with a range of third party technologies including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, among others. 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 The company offers its services to a range of industries including financial institutions, logistics, healthcare, and retail, among others. As of August 2021, around 40% of its customers were part of the banking, insurance, and finance sector, and included companies such as PayPal, Mercedes Benz, BNP Paribas, and Accenture.
 
 
 The company reportedly doubled the number of customers year-over-year (YoY) since 2017 to over 300 customers as of August 2021 of whom around half were North American. The company claims that, with the use of their technology, businesses can achieve a 10x quicker time to market, 97% productivity gains, and a 90% reduction in application errors. As of August 2021, the company operates nine offices throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In August 2021, Leapwork raised USD 62 million in Series B financing led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures, at a USD 312 million valuation. The company intends to use these funds to recruit new full-time employees in key markets, invest in global expansion, and open tech hubs to advance product development efforts.
 
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 Anvil offers a workflow-building platform that allows users to transform paper processes and PDF documents into digital workflows, using a no-code building tool as well as an API suite with more technical features for developers. The no-code workflow-building tool named &ldquo;Workflows&rdquo; enables users to convert PDF and paper forms into logic-driven web forms to streamline digital data collection and request signatures. Users can then share the completed, signed PDFs and/or data from a secure link.&nbsp;
 
 
 The tool eliminates the repetition of information in entries on multiple documents by using a logic engine that ensures interlinked forms are filled out properly. Moreover, Anvil&rsquo;s own &ldquo;Etch E-sign&rdquo; features, as well as integration with DocuSign, allow users to share and sign forms directly on the platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 In March 2023, Anvil launched a new suite of enterprise products, which include APIs and no-code tools, to enable users to collect data, generate PDFs, and gather signatures within any application. These tools include conditional logic, lists, hidden fields, multi-field editing, single sign-on (SSO), and the ability to embed workflow and template builders.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Anvil&rsquo;s integration with Zapier allows users to connect &ldquo;Workflows'' to over 6,000 applications. Anvil provides targeted solutions for the banking and wealth management industries with clients such as Citi, Ameritrade, and Catalyst Wealth Management.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In March 2023, Anvil 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17421">
 raised USD 10 million
 </a>
 in Series A funding from Craft Ventures and Gradient Ventures to secure more enterprise customers, grow its market, and expand its employee base.
 
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 UiPath offers a low-code process automation platform that includes a suite of products that spans across the entire automation lifecycle&mdash;from process discovery to automation development and management. These include: 1) Process discovery tools that include process and task mining tools, as well as idea capture and management; 2) development tools that include robotic process automation (RPA) software, process orchestration, and intelligent document processing; and 3) operations tools that include automation performance analytics.&nbsp;
 
 
 Users can build automation for a range of repetitive tasks, such as logging into applications, data extraction, moving folders, filling forms, and updating information fields, across a range of business functions like HR, IT, and compliance.&nbsp;
 
 
 In October 2023, the company launched &ldquo;Autopilot,&rdquo; a GenAI-powered tool that enables users to automate using natural language. Users can convert documents such as PDFs and images into automation applications, accelerate process testing, and filter, summarize, and create dashboards for process mining.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27785">
 In March 2024
 </a>
 , UiPath, launched new features for Autopilot that enable users to create automations, code and expressions with natural language. Users can generate step-by-step test cases from requirements and any other source documents, generate automations from test steps, and surface insights from test results.&nbsp;
 
 
 Additionally, the company launched several new generative AI features in its platform including: 1) context grounding, which enables users to improve the accuracy of GenAI models via retrieval augmented generation, 2) new large language models (LLMs), specifically designed for document and communications processing 3) connectors, which enable users to leverage a number of foundation models from IBM's watsonx.ai platform.
 
 
 UiPath has also expanded its presence in the automation space through acquisitions. In March 2021, the company acquired Elements, an API integration platform, for an undisclosed amount. It leveraged the acquisition to provide API-based automation capabilities to its clients. UiPath went on to acquire Re:infer, a natural language processing platform, in August 2022 to provide its users with the capability to deploy custom machine-learning models to analyze documents and communications data.
 
 
 Key partnerships and customers
 
 
 UiPath has an extensive partner ecosystem with a range of companies including technology partners that develop integrations for the platform, such as Adobe, Alteryx, DocuSign, Salesforce, and OutSystems, as well as cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft. The platform provides users access to over 1,400 reusable automation integrations and components to multiple applications, databases, and systems (as of October 2023).
 
 
 In February 2024, the company 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27109">
 extended its partnership with Google Cloud
 </a>
 , to make its platform accessible to a wider range of users via the Google Cloud Marketplace. The partnership also enabled the company to leverage 1) Google&rsquo;s Vertex AI platform, to enable users to infuse GenAI insights into their automations, as well as 2) Google Workspace, to offer users access to over 100 Google Cloud and Google Workspace integration activities. In March 2024, the company went on to 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27554">
 partner with Deloitte
 </a>
 , to introduce a new implementation methodology for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software developed by SAP.
 
 
 In October 2023, UiPath partnered with Apprio, a healthcare technology provider, to leverage the company&rsquo;s revenue cycle management capabilities to offer managed automation services to mid-market healthcare organizations. During the same period, it also partnered with Teradata to enable its ESG clients to automate complex data applications from dashboards to GenAI and large language models (LLMs). Furthermore, in September 2022, the company partnered with Microsoft to offer over 80 integrations between its automation platform and Microsoft Azure to joint customers via the Azure Marketplace. Furthermore, the company announced that it would be integrating with the Microsoft Power Platform. UiPath went on to integrate Microsoft&rsquo;s GenAI assistant, Copilot for Microsoft 365, into its automation platform 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29849">
 in May 2024
 </a>
 . This integration provided joint customers direct access to UiPath&rsquo;s automation capabilities directly within Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Teams.
 
 
 As of January 2023, UiPath served over 10,800 customers across a range of industries, including the American Red Cross, BMW Group, Carlsberg, Fujifilm, Japan Airlines, Korea Telecom, and the US Department of Defense.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 The company generated USD 1.3 billion in revenue in FY2024 (ended January 31). However, the company was yet to turn profitable with an operating loss of USD 165 million. The company expected revenue to reach USD 1.41 billion in FY2025 (implying YoY growth of around 8.5%). 
 
 
 
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 Appian offers a low-code platform that provides a suite of products that enable users to build, automate and optimize internal workflows and business processes across the finance, sales, and procurement functions. Users can leverage Appian&rsquo;s low-code declarative programming language named &ldquo;SAIL&rdquo; to build end-to-end process automation, including robotic process automation (RPA) bots, as well as connect customers, employees, systems, and AI. The platform also enables continuous monitoring of processes, tracking business metrics, performance, and return on investment via process dashboards and scorecards.&nbsp;
 
 
 In May 2023, the company released an AI Skill Designer, a low-code tool that enables users to build, train, and deploy custom machine-learning (ML) models. Users can leverage the company&rsquo;s native AI/ML services to integrate AI into existing business functions and automate repetitive tasks such as document classification, email classification and document extraction. Moreover, the company went on to launch &ldquo;AI Copilot,&rdquo; a GenAI-powered assistant, in August 2023. Through this, the company aims to allow users to create workflows using natural language as well as query Appian's data fabric architecture for self-service analytics with instant reports.
 
 
 Appian has expanded its offerings through acquisitions. The company acquired Novayre Solutions, an RPA platform, in 2020 and Lana Labs, a process mining company, in 2021, for undisclosed amounts. It leveraged these acquisitions to expand its automation and RPA, as well as process mining and optimization solutions respectively.
 
 
 Key partnerships and customers
 
 
 Appian has an extensive partner ecosystem with a range of companies, including service partner companies, such as FDM and Revature, and industry-specific technology companies to expand its services for enterprises. In 2021, the company partnered with Redox, a healthcare data platform, to enable health systems and payer entities to securely share patient medical record information. Appian also went on to partner with Swiss Re in October 2023 to launch &ldquo;Connected Underwriting Life Workbench.&rdquo; The solution enables insurers to evaluate and classify risk and handle exceptions and decisions on applications via a single interface.&nbsp;
 
 
 In February 2024, Appian 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27108">
 partnered with Symphony
 </a>
 , a provider of financial services workflow management solutions, to offer secure communication solutions and automated processes to financial institutions. The partnership enables users to embed auditable omnichannel communications on a number of popular platforms into their workflows on the Appian platform. This includes messaging and voice networks such as WhatsApp, WeChat, and SMS. In April 2024, the company went on to 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28503">
 partner with AWS
 </a>
 , to combine its own in-built AI capabilities and data fabric with large language models (LLMs) and machine learning services offered by Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Appian users can leverage these capabilities to host LLMs while ensuring compliance and data security and create, train, and fine-tune proprietary AI models using their own data. During the same period, the company also
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28530">
 expanded its partnership with TELUS international
 </a>
 , a Canadian IT services company, to develop an automation-as-a-service product.&nbsp;
 
 
 Appian&rsquo;s data fabric comprises a library of integrations to enterprise systems (such as AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, and DocuSign) that can be used to connect and unify data.&nbsp;
 
 
 As of December 2022, the company served 925 enterprise customers, including Aon, Bayer, Deloitte, Union Bank, Sanofi, and Munich Re, across a range of industries.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
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 The company generated USD 468 million in revenue in 2022. However, the company was yet to turn profitable with an operating loss of USD USD 145 million in 2022. The company expected revenue to reach USD 538 million&ndash;543 million in 2023 (implying YoY growth of ~15%&ndash;16%).
 
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Platforms that automate accounting and finance operations such as accounts receivable, reconciliation, transaction matching, financial close management, and intercompany financial management

Software to streamline and automate sales, marketing, and customer relationship management processes, such as qualifying leads, renewal, sales forecasts, pipeline tracking, and identifying overdue closing dates

Platforms that govern repetitive HR and admin processes such as recruitment management, employee onboarding, surveys, HRIS records, and assigning buddies

Platforms to automate operational workflows such as task monitoring and flows, streamlining facility requests, and supply chain management

Platforms that specialize in automating functions other than the four identified segments. These include platforms that automate IT, compliance, claims processing, cybersecurity, and product development

Platforms that offer a range of workflow automation and RPA bots that are not specifically targeted at any business function

Companies which utilize GenAI as a core part of their product offering for workflow automation

Offers solutions for businesses to build workflows and delivers them on a SaaS basis

Used together with RPA bots to optimize existing workflows and build new ones

Uses NLP to understand the information, especially unstructured information, present in workflows

Can automate workloads for several business functions for employees regardless of where they are

Used to extract data, understand and analyze unstructured data, and also deal with high-volume workflows

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 The process automation startup, 11x.ai has successfully raised USD 24 million through a Series A funding round. Key participants included Benchmark, 20VC, Project A, Lux Capital and SV Angel. 
 This funding is set to bolster product development, team expansion and heighten its international market presence. The focus will primarily be on the US where they recently shifted headquarters to.
 Based in the UK, 11xAI specializes in AI and automation, developing autonomous digital workers that efficiently manage tasks. Their main product, a no-code platform known as Platform X, fosters collaboration in creating and deploying digital workers. Furthermore, they offer pre-built AI agents adept in handling numerous tasks including sales development and inbound lead qualification.&nbsp;
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