San Francisco-based open-source company Robocorp has secured $5.6 million in seed funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city’s recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced on Nov. 4 and led by Benchmark.
According to its Crunchbase profile, "Robocorp is out to change robotic process automation. RPA has the potential to change how millions of people work every day, and Robocorp is making it accessible to everyone through license-free open-source technologies, delivered from a cloud platform."
The startup, which was founded earlier this year, also raised a $569,602 pre-seed round in January.
The round brings total funding raised by San Francisco companies in information technology over the past month to $737 million. The local information technology industry has produced 342 funding rounds over the past year, raking in a total of $6 billion in venture funding.
In other local funding news, cloud security company Picus Security announced a $5 million Series A funding round on Oct. 24, financed by Earlybird.
According to Crunchbase, "Picus Security offers continuous security validation and mitigation as the most proactive approach to ensure cyber-resilience. The Picus Platform measures the effectiveness of defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments, providing the insight required to build the right security strategy to manage complex operations better."
Founded in 2013, the company has raised two previous rounds, including a $1.7 million seed round in 2018.
Meanwhile, mobile apps company Glide Apps raised $3.6 million in seed funding, announced on Nov. 5. The round's investors were led by First Round Capital.
From the company's Crunchbase profile: "Glide Apps is a platform that enables users to create mobile apps from Google Sheets. It was founded in 2018 and is a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class."
Glide Apps last raised $150,000 in seed funding earlier this year.
Also of note, usability testing company LambdaTest raised $2 million in seed funding, announced on Nov. 8.
From Crunchbase: "LambdaTest is a scalable cloud-based, cross-browser testing platform designed to offer all website or web app testing needs to cloud infrastructure."
The company previously raised $1 million in seed funding in 2018.
Rounding out the city's recent top local funding events, direct sales company VOIQ raised $2 million in seed funding, announced on Nov. 5 and led by LEAP Global Partners.
From Crunchbase: "We provide businesses the opportunity to leverage AI conversational VoiceBots to make their sales, marketing and support calls, replacing the need for sales and support reps."
The company previously raised $5 million in seed funding in 2015.
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