Workato

About Workato

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Workato

All products by Workato reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

WorkatoAI Productivity

Enterprise automation platform connecting apps, data, and business processes

Free8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Workato

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Workato's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.7 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Workato competes with, and how they differ.

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MuleSoft (Salesforce)

Salesforce-owned enterprise iPaaS incumbent with deep Anypoint/Salesforce ecosystem lock-in, sold top-down to large IT organizations at enterprise contract pricing versus Workato's faster self-serve deployment model.

UiPath7.8/10

RPA-first platform that pushed into integration by acquiring Cloud Elements to compete with Workato's iPaaS-plus-automation approach; UiPath's core strength remains desktop/UI-level process automation and robotic workforce management rather than API-native integration.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Zapier7.6/10

SMB/prosumer-first no-code automation with a much larger long-tail app-connector marketplace and self-serve pricing, but lacks Workato's enterprise governance, hybrid/on-prem connectivity, and dedicated customer-success model for large IT deployments.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Make8.2/10

Visual, node-based automation builder targeting the same SMB-to-mid-market self-serve segment as Zapier, with cheaper entry pricing but weaker enterprise security and governance controls than Workato's platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

n8n8.1/10

Open-source, self-hostable workflow automation that appeals to developer-first teams wanting to own their infrastructure, trading Workato's managed enterprise SLAs and prebuilt connector library for full code-level control.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Automation Anywhere7.9/10

RPA vendor expanding from bot-based process automation into agentic AI and API integration, overlapping with Workato's push into agentic orchestration (Otto), but still weighted toward UI-level automation versus Workato's API-first architecture.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Workato's history, with sources.

1. May 6, 2026Launch

   Launched Otto, an autonomous AI teammate

   Workato launched Otto, an AI "superagent" built on Workato Enterprise MCP that executes work across enterprise systems with governance and audit trails built in; over 1,000 users were testing it at launch.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Aug 14, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired xmad.ai to launch Workato AI Research Lab

   Workato acquired frontier AI-research startup xmad.ai, whose team (led by Oscar Wu) joined a new San Francisco-based Workato AI Research Lab focused on autonomous enterprise agents.

   finance.yahoo.com
3. Nov 10, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired RailsData to expand connector library

   Alongside its Series E close, Workato acquired RailsData, an API-based app/data/device integration startup and former Workato customer, to scale its connector coverage.

   techcrunch.com
4. Nov 10, 2021Funding

   Series E — $200M led by Battery Ventures at $5.7B valuation

   Workato raised $200M in Series E funding led by Battery Ventures, with Insight Partners, Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global participating, valuing the company at $5.7B and bringing total funding to $421M.

   techcrunch.com
5. Jan 12, 2021Funding

   Series D — $110M at $1.7B valuation

   Workato raised $110M in Series D funding led by Altimeter Capital with Insight Partners, valuing the company at $1.7B and bringing total funding to over $221M.

   businesswire.com
6. Nov 11, 2019Funding

   Series C — $70M led by Redpoint Ventures

   Workato raised $70M in Series C funding led by Redpoint Ventures with Norwest Venture Partners and Geodesic Capital, bringing total funding raised to date to $111M.

   prnewswire.com
7. Dec 5, 2018Funding

   Series B — $25M led by Battery Ventures

   Workato raised $25M in Series B funding from Battery Ventures, Storm Ventures, ServiceNow and Workday Ventures, bringing total investment raised to $41M.

   techcrunch.com
8. 2013Founded

   Workato founded

   Workato was founded in 2013 by Vijay Tella, Gautham Viswanathan, Harish Shetty and Dimitris Kogias, TIBCO Software alumni who had previously built the BusinessWorks integration platform together.

   en.wikipedia.org