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Meet the Indian brains behind Automation Anywhere, tomorrow's bot workforce

The firm is disrupting the RPA space globally by leveraging India's talent base; its clientele includes names such as Google, Cisco and Siemens

Ankur Kothari Co-Founder and CRO (Left) and Mihir Shukla Co-Founder and CEO,  Automation Anywhere
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Ankur Kothari Co-Founder and CRO (Left) and Mihir Shukla Co-Founder and CEO, Automation Anywhere

Debasis Mohapatra Bengaluru
Somewhere in the middle of this month, robotic process automation (RPA) software company, Automation Anywhere, announced an infusion of $300 million by Softbank and the closure its Series-A round, at $550 million. But what’s remarkable is that between July this year when it raised $250 million from NEA and Goldman Sachs as a part of this round and now, the valuation of the company had jumped nearly 45 per cent, to a staggering $2.6 billion.

This speaks volumes about a company which today is at the forefront of building intelligent bots capable of replacing human workforce in most of the