Meet the $40B+ software robot maker poised to automate pencil pushing – The Hustle

A company youve probably never heard of made IPO history this week.

UiPath, an automation company, made its market debut and notched the 3rd largest US software IPO in history, behind only Snowflake (No. 1) and Qualtrics (No. 2).

By markets close on Wednesday, the companys market cap had settled at a hefty $35.8B which leaves only one question

The company was founded in 2005 by Romanian entrepreneurs Daniel Dines and Marius Trc.

Originally called DeskOver, UiPath was based in Romania but later rebranded and moved its HQ to the US in 2017. Today, about of its ~3k employees are still based in Romania.

UiPath helps enterprises automate tedious manual tasks done on computers, something they refer to as RPA or

They call their automations software robots that do robot-like work for humans tasks like filling forms, moving files, inputting data, and scraping documents.

The real gem is that creating these software robots requires no coding, and they can interface with existing software using AI-fueled computer vision think robots actually seeing what they click.

This all rolls up into a serious business:

And according to UiPath, the market for robot automation is expected to reach $30B by 2024, up from $17B in 2020.

thanks to UiPaths 145% dollar retention, meaning its customers are staying and increasing budgets by 45% into the next year a strategy insiders call land and expand.

But its not all robots and sunshine.

UiPath will have to weather a public market thats souring for high-flying tech companies. In 2021, a cloud index of 58 cloud companies has dropped 7%; meanwhile, the Dow is up 10%.

Hot Dow Summer, anyone?

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