INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a hot commodity in recent years as it helps automate tedious manual workflows inside large
Robocorp, a San Francisco startup, wants to bring open source and RPA together
Today it announced a $5.6 million seed investment.Benchmark led the round, with participation from Slow Ventures, firstminute Capital, Bret
Taylor (president and chief product officer at Salesforce) and Docker CEO Rob Bearden
open-source projects for years, and he saw an enterprise software category that was lacking in open-source options
He wants to bring the focus back to the developers who will be using the tools
So, we are focused on giving developers tools that they like to use, and want to use for RPA, and doing it in an open-source model where the
as an open-source software testing environment, but he sees RPA having a lot in common with testing, and his team has been able to take the
even further of using the open-source tools, and that includes the kinds of features enterprises tend to demand from these projects, like
product, while working to build the underlying open-source community.While UIPath, a fast-growing startup with a hefty $7.1 billion
valuation recently announced it was laying off 400 people, Gartner published a study in June showing that RPA is the fastest growing
enterprise software category.
