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Founded by Daniel Dines in 2005, in Bucharest.1
UiPath was founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania as DeskOver, by Romanian entrepreneurs Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă.
In 2013, the company released the first UiPath Desktop Automation product line, which gave companies RPA tools to automate manual and repetitive back office tasks.
In 2015, the company changed its name to UiPath. Also in 2015, after receiving seed funding from Accel Partners and earlier investors, the company also opened offices in London, New York City, Bangalore, Paris, Singapore, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo.
By April 2016, the company had released its Front Office and Back Office Server suites, and also released its Studio Community Edition. Within six months, the company had 10,000 active members, and more than 250 enterprise customers.
In 2017, UiPath reported 590 employees and moved its headquarters to New York to be closer to its international customer base.
In October 2019, UiPath announced the acquisition of Ukrainian process documentation company StepShot and Dutch process mining company ProcessGold. Also in October, the company announced several updates to its technology platform, including UiPath Explorer, an automation identification and planning tool developed using technology from the acquired companies; a robot communication tool called UiPath Apps; a low code robot programming tool called UiPath StudioX; an embedded analytics tool called UiPath Insights; and UiPath Connect, a tool that allowed every employee to find new processes to automate.
In November of the same year, the company reported it had 5,000 customers worldwide, and a developer community of more than 500,000 people. In November, the company was ranked first in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.
In March 2021, UiPath acquired Cloud Elements, an interconnectivity platform to advance API-based automation capabilities.
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In April 2021, UiPath raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in one of the largest US software IPOs in history.
In July 2022, UiPath acquired Re:infer, a natural language processing developer, for an undisclosed sum.
In July 2024, the company released its UiPath Autopilot program, which integrated generative AI and NLP into its Business Automation Platform. It also announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate agentic AI into Microsoft's Teams collaboration software.
In October 2024, the company launched a preview of its Agent Builder, an agentic automation tool for developers to combine RPA with generative AI-powered agents to help simplify enterprise automation efforts.
In March 2025, the company announced its UiPath Test Cloud, a tool to improve software testing by integrating AI agents. Also in March, UiPath acquired Peak, a Manchester-headquartered AI company specializing in agentic solutions for inventory and pricing optimization, for an undisclosed sum.
In April 2025, the company launched UiPath Platform for Agentic Automation, with an orchestration layer called Maestro, allowing employees to work more effectively with agents and robots.
In October 2025, the UiPath Platform was named as one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2025.
From Wikipedia’s article on UiPath, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7