Automation Anywhere

About Automation Anywhere

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Automation Anywhere

All products by Automation Anywhere reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Automation AnywhereAI Productivity

Enterprise-grade intelligent process automation platform with AI-powered bots

From $750/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Automation Anywhere

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Automation Anywhere's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.6 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Automation Anywhere competes with, and how they differ.

UiPath7.8/10

The largest pure-play RPA vendor by market share and the 2021 IPO comparison (NYSE: PATH); pushes further into process/task mining and cloud-native orchestration than Automation Anywhere's Automation Success Platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

SS&C Blue Prism7.3/10

The RPA pioneer that coined the category; acquired by financial-services software conglomerate SS&C Technologies in 2022 and now sold bundled with SS&C's Chorus BPA suite and IDP tools rather than as a standalone platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Pegasystems7.6/10

Leads with case management and CRM-adjacent business process management (Pega Infinity); RPA is one module inside that broader low-code suite rather than the core product, unlike Automation Anywhere's automation-first platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Appian7.2/10

A low-code application-development platform where RPA is one component of a broader BPM suite; competes on building custom enterprise apps around automation rather than RPA as a standalone category.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

W

WorkFusion7.1/10

Pivoted away from general-purpose RPA -- Gartner dropped it from the RPA Magic Quadrant in 2023 -- toward AI-driven KYC/AML compliance automation for banks, a narrower niche than Automation Anywhere's horizontal platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Automation Anywhere's history, with sources.

1. Jan 27, 2026Milestone

   Reported in early-stage merger talks with C3.ai (unconfirmed)

   Reuters, citing a report from The Information, said Automation Anywhere was in talks to merge with publicly traded C3.ai in a deal structured so Automation Anywhere would acquire C3.ai and gain a public listing via reverse merger. Neither company confirmed the report and no terms were disclosed; no deal has been announced as final.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Nov 4, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Aisera, an agentic AI platform for IT/HR/customer service

   Acquired Aisera to add self-service AI agents for IT service management, HR and customer service to its automation portfolio; Aisera's 100+ AI engineers joined the company. Deal terms were not disclosed.

   prnewswire.com
3. Dec 23, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired FortressIQ, a process-discovery startup

   Acquired FortressIQ to add AI-driven process mapping and discovery capabilities to its RPA platform; deal terms were not disclosed.

   techcrunch.com
4. Nov 21, 2019Funding

   Series B — $290M led by Salesforce Ventures at $6.8B valuation

   Series B financing valued the company at a $6.8 billion post-money valuation; SoftBank Investment Advisers and Goldman Sachs also participated.

   automationanywhere.com
5. Nov 15, 2018Funding

   SoftBank Vision Fund invests $300M, extending Series A to $550M total

   SoftBank Vision Fund added $300 million to the Series A round, bringing total Series A financing to over $500 million. Independent reporting (VentureBeat) put the resulting post-money valuation at $2.6 billion; the company's own release did not state a valuation.

   venturebeat.com
6. Jul 2, 2018Funding

   Series A — $250M led by NEA and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

   First outside funding round after 15 years in business; $250 million at a $1.8 billion post-money valuation, with General Atlantic and World Innovation Lab also participating.

   automationanywhere.com
7. 2003Founded

   Founded in San Jose by Mihir Shukla, Ankur Kothari, Rushabh Parmani and Neeti Mehta Shukla

   Automation Anywhere was founded in 2003 in San Jose, California by CEO Mihir Shukla along with Ankur Kothari, Rushabh Parmani and Neeti Mehta Shukla, all still listed as co-founders in company leadership today.

   forbes.com