Automat secured $15.5M in Series A funding led by Felicis with participation from Initialized, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator to replace legacy Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems with agentic workflow infrastructure. The funding addresses a critical enterprise bottleneck where 70% of RPA implementations fail to scale beyond pilot deployments, creating a $30 billion market ripe for next-generation automation architecture.

The Legacy RPA Bottleneck

Enterprise automation faces fundamental scalability constraints with traditional RPA platforms like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism. These systems require specialized developer teams, fragile low-code configurations, and expensive per-bot licensing that makes scaling economically prohibitive. The core technical limitation stems from brittle rule-based automation that breaks when user interfaces change, requiring constant maintenance and reconfiguration.