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Applica
AI · New York City, United States · Founded 2013
AI-based robotic text automation for enterprises MoreLess
Applica develops an AI-powered platform for Robotic Text Automation designed for enterprise clients. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in automating complex, text-intensive work by extracting and interpreting information from unstructured and semi-structured documents, regardless of their language or layout. The platform's core technology is built on a proprietary, brain-inspired Contextual Awareness system and neural language models developed by a research and development team that includes numerous PhDs and AI scientists.
The company was founded in Warsaw, Poland, by Piotr Surma (CEO) and Adam Dancewicz (CTO). Applica's mission is to allow knowledge workers to move away from repetitive document analysis and concentrate on higher-value tasks. The technology mimics human comprehension, allowing it to be trained on new document types with minimal data by business users rather than AI experts. It serves a variety of industries, including finance, insurance, legal services, and media. Common applications include processing mortgage applications, insurance claims, legal documents, and financial filings. The business model was subscription-based, often implemented alongside robotic process automation (RPA) solutions to automate entire workflows.
After participating in the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars, Applica raised a Series A funding round in January 2020, led by Cogito Capital Partners with participation from Barclays. On September 23, 2022, Snowflake, a cloud data company, completed its acquisition of Applica for approximately $175 million. The acquisition was intended to enhance Snowflake's capabilities in processing unstructured data within its Data Cloud, enabling customers to derive insights from documents, emails, and other text-based sources.
Keywords: Robotic Text Automation, unstructured data processing, intelligent document processing, document automation, natural language processing, deep learning, AI platform, enterprise software, Contextual Awareness, text analytics, information extraction, financial document analysis, insurance claims processing, legal tech, workflow automation, machine learning, Snowflake acquisition, business process automation, data comprehension, semantic analysis
Company overview
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- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Employees
- 30
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 64.5
Valuation & funding
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Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITION✓Exit | Aug 2022 | $170M | $170M | Snowflake | ↗ |
| EARLY VCEquity / VC | Mar 2022 | $5M | $20M | Undisclosed | — |
| GRANTOther financing | Apr 2021 | $5M | — | Undisclosed | — |
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Jan 2020 | $9.9M | $40M | Cogito Capital Partners · Barclays | — |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Sep 2018 | $20K | $80K | Techstars · Barclays Accelerator | — |
| GRANT✓Other financing | Dec 2017 | The National Centre for Research and Development · European Commission | — |
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Latest recorded traffic for Applica is 150 monthly website visits, down 84.8% over the last three months. Applica's team declined 42.3% over the past year.
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