Best Robotic Process Automation Companies in Germany
The 61 best Robotic Process Automation companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: arago.
Germany's Robotic Process Automation scene has 61 tracked companies and $167M in disclosed funding, and this directory ranks them by equity raised and recent momentum. Arago leads the pack at $60M, followed by Next Matter at $20M and N8n at $14M. The global RPA market sat at roughly $2.5B in 2022 and is forecast to hit $11.4B by 2027, a CAGR near 35.83% that few enterprise software categories can match right now. One unicorn has already emerged from the cohort. That's not nothing for a mid-sized national market.
What's driving the capital? Cost savings and execution efficiency are the headline answers, and as recent coverage on RPA in procurement makes clear, industrial and back-office use cases are pulling serious attention this quarter. I'd also flag the growing case for RPA across complex industries as a signal that Germany's engineering-heavy economy is unusually well-positioned here. Active investors including 468 Capital, APX and LEA Partners are circling the space, so if you're mapping where European automation capital is concentrating, this list is where you start.
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Ranked: Best Robotic Process Automation companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arago AI-based business process automation software | $60M | 70 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1995 | — | — |
| 2 | Next Matter Online suite solutions for enterprise collaboration | $20M | 48 mo ago | Series A | Jan Hugenroth Founder & CEO | 2006 | MintlifyNode.jsKaTeX+20 | — |
| 3 | Leverton AI based platform offering document processing solutions | $17M | 107 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Lorenzo Matthaei Co-Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 4 | N8n 🦄 Developer of platform for AI workflow automation and application integration 80AI top 8%Tech top 18%Growth top 30%Funding top 31% All 10 signals ▾AItop 8% Techtop 18% Growthtop 30% Fundingtop 31% Newstop 31% Moattop 31% Producttop 40% Markettop 50% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Tech: 86 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $14M | 1 mo ago | Series C | Jan Oberhauser Founder/CEO | 2019 | Node.jsZohoTailwind CSS+26 | — |
| 5 | Hypatos Developer of an AI platform for automating global business services | $12M | 53 mo ago | Seed | Uli Erxleben Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | WebflowCart FunctionalityApple iCloud Mail+15 | — |
| 6 | Workist AI-based business process automation solutions | $12M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Fabian Brosig Founder & CTO | 2016 | WebflowCart FunctionalitySalesforce+23 | 1 launch |
| 7 | Levity Cloud-based robotic process automation platform for document processing | $10M | 44 mo ago | Seed | Gero Keil Co-founder and CEO | 2020 | TurbopackApple iCloud MailNode.js+24 | — |
| 8 | Juna Developer of AI agents and an operating system for industrial automation 62Funding top 41%AI top 45%Talent top 45%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 41% AItop 45% Talenttop 45% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $7.5M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 2 yrs (0.5/yr) AI: Product described with: ai-driven rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $8M | 19 mo ago | Seed | Christian Hardenberg Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — |
| 9 | Natif.ai AI-based platform for document processing | $5M | 51 mo ago | Acquired | Mats Hoefler Co-Founder and CRO | 2019 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+25 | 1 partnership |
| 10 | Ask Ui Developer of AI-powered automation software for testing and controlling applications | $5M | 34 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | WebflowStripeAmazon Web Services+19 | — |
| 11 | Automaited Cloud-based multi-function basic automation platform for multi-industry | $4M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Patrick Müller CEO & Co-Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityTurbopackSentry+20 | — |
| 12 | Dexter Workflow automation platform for field operations | $500K | 24 mo ago | Seed | Caterina Kiehntopf Co-Founder & COO | 2024 | — | — |
| 13 | Futurized Cloud-based robotic process automation platform for basic automation | $272K | 35 mo ago | Seed | Eric Boger Co-Founder & CTO | 2022 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+14 | — |
Top 12 Robotic Process Automation companies in Germany
#1
N8n 🦄Series C · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2019 · 15 employees$13.5Mraised▾
Developer of platform for AI workflow automation and application integration. The platform provides tools for building automated workflows and integrating various applications. It offers a visual interface and the ability to incorporate custom code. The platform supports self-hosting and provides access to source code.
- May 2026Series C—
- Oct 2025Series C$180M
- Mar 2025Series B$60M
- Apr 2021Series A$12M
#2
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2024$7.5Mraised▾
Developer of AI agents and an operating system for industrial automation. The company's agents help plan, steer, and improve industrial processes. These processes maximize output, sustainability, and profits. The operating system is designed for AI-driven production, scheduling, process engineering, and resource management.
- Nov 2024Seed$7.5M
#3
Acquired · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 1995 · 23 employees$60.5Mraised▾
Arago is a developer of AI-based IT and business process automation solution. The company has developed general problem-solving AI HIRO that manages and automates every process within a company from IT operations, business processes, and transactions. HIRO dynamically reacts to a changing environment and is able to autonomously solve even ambiguous and complex problems. HIRO learns best practices directly from experts through knowledge creation & management platforms. HIRO operates on a semantic data map which is based on the data companies generate. The semantics on the data map allows the machine to understand the environment it operates in. HIRO integrates into every IT environment, manages processes with CPU speed, achieves an average automation rate of 87% across the entire IT stack, stores & reuses learned knowledge and solves complex problems using dynamic reasoning. UBS, Mphasis, ZenSar, and CompuCom are part of its clientele.
- Aug 2020Unattributed$5.5M
- 2016PE—
- Oct 2014PE$55M
#4
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2006 · 37 employees$20Mraised▾
Online suite solutions for enterprise collaboration. It allows users to track teams, tasks, and their performances. The platform allows users to manage cross team processes, and assign roles and responsibilities to teams. Other solutions include employee and customer onboarding, GDPR customer requests, and content management solutions.
- Jun 2022Series A$16M
- Feb 2021Seed$4M
#5
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 46 employees$11.6Mraised▾
AI-based business process automation solutions. It allows users to handle inbound emails and customer emails, and automate a manual process. It enables users to automate repetitive tasks, manage unstructured data in various formats, and offers end-to-end process execution.
- Sep 2022Series A$8.7M
- Aug 2020Seed$2.7M
#6
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020 · 21 employees$10Mraised▾
Cloud-based robotic process automation platform for document processing. It is a platform for enterprises and researchers to build custom AI solutions, without technical know-how. The platform allows users to upload raw training data (both image and text) and use the collaborative labelling functionality of the same to label extensive data sets. In addition, it provides a custom API based on the AI model developed by the user for enabling the latter to integrate it into the internal systems for automating business processes based on insights and predictions from the same
- Oct 2022Seed$8.3M
- Jan 2021Seed$1.7M
- 2019Grant (prize money)—
#7
Seed · Karlsruhe, Baden-wurttemberg · founded 2019 · 22 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Developer of AI-powered automation software for testing and controlling applications. The software automates tasks across desktop, mobile, and web environments. It integrates into existing tool stacks for reporting, data processing, and continuous integration. The software supports automating real or virtual machines and devices.
- Aug 2023Seed$4.7M
- Feb 2022Seed—
#8
Seed · Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg · founded 2015 · 36 employees$11.8Mraised▾
Developer of an AI platform for automating global business services. The platform offers an AI agent studio for business knowledge transfer and task delegation. It provides insights through performance dashboards to fine-tune AI agent activity. The platform offers intelligent document processing, transaction matching, and financial process automation.
- Jan 2022Seed—
- Sep 2020Seed$11.8M
- 2016Seed—
#9
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2012 · 44 employees$16.6Mraised▾
Leverton provides AI powered document processing solutions for enterprises. Its deep learning technology enabled platform can extract, structure and manage data from corporate documents in more than 20 languages. Client portfolio includes more than 100 global brands including big brands like SAP, Deutsche Bank, Clifford Chance, Goldman Sachs, JLL, etc. Offices in Berlin, London, and New York.
- Jul 2017Series B$11M
- Jun 2015Series A$5.6M
#10
Acquired · Saarbrucken, Saarland · founded 2019 · 40 employees$5.4Mraised▾
AI-based platform for document processing. It enables businesses to automate document processing with document classification, capturing, and validation. It assists to train machines with deep learning and natural language processing.
- Mar 2022Seed$5.4M
- Feb 2021Seed—
- Sep 2020Seed—
#11
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2024$500Kraised▾
Workflow automation platform for field operations. It is an AI powered workflow automation platform that streamline operations for field teams. The companys no-code automation tool enables teams to automate processes, including tools such as data extraction, task optimization, reports generation, and more.
- 2024Seed$500K
#12
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2019 · 20 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Cloud-based multi-function basic automation platform for multi-industry. Platform uses AI technology for task automation. It allows users to automate administrative task, quality control, inventory management, appointment scheduling and more. It provides solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, finance, retail and more. IT is the tool available on the subscription-based pricing model.
- May 2022Seed$4.2M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Robotic Process Automation coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Robotics is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Robotics — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,940 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Technical University of Munich213
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.116
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology105
- Institute of Automation101
- RWTH Aachen University97
- Motion planning16→153
- Motion (physics)7→77
- Task (project management)7→73
- Reinforcement learning4→64
- Path (computing)3→58
- Motion planning20→95
- Path (computing)4→52
- Mobile robot11→53
- Reinforcement learning7→48
- Task (project management)11→51
- Key (lock)2→18
- Context (archaeology)2→15
- Human–robot interaction2→15
- Automation1→10
- Task (project management)1→10
Where robotics is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing robotics patents in Germany
Germany robotics patent filing is accelerating — 35,097 filings from 7,493 assignees (2016–2025), led by Siemens, Robert Bosch, KUKA Roboter; annual filings 2383→3904.
- Siemens9725
- Robert Bosch2638
- KUKA Roboter1456
- KUKA Deutschland1285
- Krones779
- Phoenix Contact764
- Duerr Systems728
- SICK625
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.