Automation startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Automat

San Francisco

Automat is a generative AI platform that creates and scales end-to-end automations, redefining Enterprise AI Agents, RPA, and Intelligent Document Processing; it serves some of the world's largest companies and claims 10x speed and lower co

Hark

San Francisco

Hark builds an end-to-end AI automation system—from workflow ingestion to production monitoring—plus services that accelerate deployment 10x; founded by Obaid Khan and Tim Lee, bringing operator credibility from Motive, Miso Media, and Code

Abacus

San Francisco

Abacus builds AI agents to automate tedious accounting workflows, redefining how accounting firms operate. It serves large enterprise clients, generates meaningful revenue, and is led by a two-person founding team backed by top-tier investo

CloudCruise

San Francisco

CloudCruise offers a platform to design once and ship fast, reliable browser agents, triggerable via API, with automatic issue repair to keep agents running smoothly.

11x

San Francisco

11x builds fully autonomous digital workers that automate specific jobs end-to-end, aiming to sell work, not software; a pioneer in digital workers with hundreds of customers including Brex, Otter AI, and Hasura, and millions in revenue in

CozmoX AI

Mountain View

CozmoX provides AI employees with voice technology for natural, human-like conversations that handle repetitive tasks 24/7. It offers a no-code platform to deploy voice-driven digital workers, has unveiled three AI employees, and is backed

Arphie

San Francisco

Arphie is building a platform for collaborative intelligence between go-to-market and product/engineering teams. Backed by top-tier VC firms and led by CEO/CTO co-founders who met at Harvard, it has posted rapid ARR growth since commerciali

Luminai

San Francisco

Luminai automates repetitive manual tasks in mission-critical business processes across insurance, healthcare, and financial services. San Francisco based since 2019, it has raised $20M and is led by Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran, noted for hacka

Forge

San Francisco

Forge automates complex manual processes for the world’s largest enterprises and advances human computer interaction. Backed by Founders Fund and OpenAI, it operates globally, powering Fortune 500 workflows with 98%+ quality across half a m

Parahelp

San Francisco

Parahelp offers an AI support agent for fast-moving software companies, designed to automate complex support tickets end-to-end and deployable in one day without engineers. With a five-person, founder-heavy team and rapid growth, it is seek

Zapier

Mountain View

**Zapier** The easiest way to automate your work. Founded in 2011, Zapier is the #1 workflow automation platform for small and mid-sized businesses. By connecting more than 6,000 of the most popular work apps, Zapier empowers its users to

Vly.ai

San Francisco

vly.ai is building an AI full-stack development platform that can architect, build, deploy, and iterate on complete applications autonomously, aiming to replace most full-stack work within a year and competing with Replit, Lovable, and bolt

Augrade

San Francisco

Augrade Inc is an AI research lab building an agentic platform to automate construction workflows across design, estimation, and vendor management, aiming to create an AI architect and engineer that can realize projects for users regardless

Entangl

San Francisco

Entangl uses AI to autonomously detect design errors in data center engineering and operations, delivering targeted solutions to engineers. Founded by Shapol and Antanas, ex-reusable rocket program leaders, Entangl aims to save time, reduce

Activepieces

San Francisco

Activepieces is an MIT-licensed, open-source no-code business automation platform that can be self-hosted on customers' servers, positioned as a self-hosted alternative to cloud tools like Zapier and aimed at making AI a native part of ente

Aden

San Francisco

Aden is an AI-native, multi-agent ERP platform unifying business systems for operations leaders. Customizable and deployable, it uses declarative solutions and AI agents to automate workflows, serving over 100 businesses, including supply c

DryMerge

San Francisco

DryMerge provides a platform to create AI agents that connect to apps and automate tasks via a chat interface, emphasizing near-perfect accuracy and deep integrations with Gmail and Salesforce; it is a small Rust/Javascript/Svelte engineeri

Arnata

San Francisco

Arnata develops AI Workers, autonomous agents for logistics teams designed to operate within their workflows.

Rulebricks

Palo Alto

Prefix, a Palo Alto-based startup with a small team led by founder Sid, backs early investors and angels. It automates desktop tasks for fast-moving customer support and product teams that cloud integrations cannot reach and is open to remo