UiPath, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market leader, recently announces the six finalists of the 2019 Automation Awards CEE. Designed for software start-ups and scale-ups from the CEE region and Turkey, the competition aims to support the best teams in the region dedicated to building the best B2B non-manufacturing automation software.
For its first edition, the competition has attracted more than 100 entries in the two categories, with applicants coming from 12 countries. The jury assessed the submissions according to criteria such as the passion and vision of the founders, the value of their technology proposition and its potential to answer a market need, and the size of the market for their product.
Starting mid-June and until September 2, the competition received submissions for the two award tracks: the Start-up Automation Award, which recognizes existing teams that have already developed a technical minimum viable automation product and received no more than $1 million in funding; and the Scale-up Automation Award, which acknowledges companies that offer a functioning technology, have a solid team of at least four members, a portfolio of three paying customers and received a maximum funding of $3 million.
The finalists in the two award categories of UiPath’s 2019 Automation Awards CEE are:
Start-up Automation Award
- Bulletproof AI (Czech Republic) – Security for machine learning;
- Edward.ai (Poland) – AI-powered assistant for sales representatives;
- Nifty learning (Romania) – Operational intelligence for training
Scale-up Automation Award
- Aggero (Romania) – AI-powered audience analytics and influencer intelligence for gaming;
- Applica AI (Poland) – AI-based software that automates the scrutiny and comprehension of unstructured text in enterprises
- Smartdreamers (Romania) – Recruitment marketing automation software for companies
The six finalists of the 2019 UiPath Automation Awards, CEE (central and eastern Europe) edition presented their automation technologies on the stage of the How To Web conference in Bucharest, Romania, on October 30 for the two award packages up for grabs.
There were three finalists competing for each award:
Start-Up Automation Award: Recognizing an existing team with a technical minimum viable product (MVP), who have received less than $1 million in funding
Scale-Up Automation Award: Recognizing an existing company with a currently functioning technology, who have received a maximum of $3 million in funding
The winners of the 2019 UiPath Automation Awards, CEE edition:
Start-Up Automation Award: Edward.ai
Scale-Up Automation Award: Smartdreamers
Edward is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered sales assistant that integrates seamlessly with sales teams’ existing processes and software. Based in Poland, Edward provides sales process automation to sales representatives, freeing salespeople to spend more time with prospects and customers.
Headquartered in Romania, Smartdreamers is a software used by enterprises and fast-growing companies to accelerate their talent acquisition. Smartdreamers’ technology is redefining recruitment management automation for organizations in today’s ‘automation first‘ era.
As a global company, we’re thinking about the UiPath Automation Awards on a global scale. UiPath began in Romania and the CEE region was integral to helping us move from a startup to scaling our own organization. We began with the CEE edition of our Automation Awards and we look forward to the opportunity to further expand Automation Awards into other global regions in the future.
Image Caption : Edward.ai, winners of the startup category. Photo / copyright: UiPath
