Automat, a startup that says it is building the simplest way to create AI agents that operate computers like humans do, has raised $15.5 million in a Series A round.
The round was led by Felicis, with participation from Initialized, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator, along with follow-on investments from K5 Global and Input Capital. The latest funding brings the company’s total raised to $19.25 million.
“At Automat, we’re building the simplest way to create AI agents that operate computers the way people do. From click-based automation (RPA), to intelligent document processing (IDP), our focus is on meeting enterprises where they are, and giving them a far more capable and modern alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism,” Automat Co-Founder Lucas Ochoa noted in a blog post.
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“Automat creates reliable AI-agents to automate manual business processes by allowing operators to simply show us the workflows they’d like to automate, making it easy for a non-technical operator or engineer to scale automations across their organization.”
Ochoa added that fully agentic solutions leaves users with prompts, fiddling with deployment details, and can be slow and non-deterministic. With Automat, workflows are fully managed and guaranteed by its forward deployment team and proprietary agentic infrastructure.
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“When my co-founder Gautam and I left Google to start Automat, we could feel the shift happening in real time. Gautam was working on applying cutting-edge transformer models across experiments in Chrome and GCP, while I was building products at Google Hardware and later at Google X. It was at Google X that the two of us realized something important: robotics techniques for ‘text-to-action,’ combined with rapid advances in VLMs and LLMs, could enable a new class of AI agents, ones capable of operating software the way people do, understanding the ‘why’ of each action they take, and adapting to changing environments and workflows,” Ochoa added.
“Automat changes this enterprise automation dynamic entirely. With simple subscription/usage-based pricing and a clean interface, both business users and engineers can build mission-critical automations by collaborating with our forward-deployed engineers. No certifications. No armies of developers. No fragile, low-code spaghetti.”
Lucas Ochoa has previously held roles at both Google and Microsoft, while co-founder Gautam Bose was a creative technologist at Google. Both are alumni of Carnegie Mellon University.