Sola Raises $17.5M to Bring AI Automation to Back-Office Work - InforCapital

USA, August 14, 2025 — Sola, an AI-native process automation platform, has exited stealth with $21 million in total funding, including a newly closed $17.5 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) partners Kimberly Tan and Jennifer Li. The round follows a $3.5 million seed investment led by Sarah Guo at Conviction, with participation from Y Combinator and other investors.

Co-founded by Jessica (CEO) and Neil Deshmukh, Sola is targeting an underserved segment of the automation market: manual, repetitive workflows that have long persisted in industries where traditional enterprise software has failed to deliver meaningful efficiency gains. Its platform is designed to handle operational tasks such as claims processing, data entry, compliance reviews, and document verification, work that has historically been outsourced to large offshore teams in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector.

Sola replaces these processes with agentic AI bots that can be created by non-technical staff in minutes. Users record a process once, and Sola generates an automation that runs, adapts, and self-heals when systems change. The bots interact with software interfaces exactly as a human would, removing the need for costly integrations or brittle scripts. This design allows enterprises to automate at scale without disrupting their existing IT environments.

Current deployments span Fortune 100 companies, AmLaw 100 law firms, and billion-dollar healthcare and logistics providers. Clients report automating thousands of hours of work, cutting error rates, and accelerating turnaround times on mission-critical workflows. Unlike legacy robotic process automation (RPA) systems, which often require months of setup and external consultants, Sola can be deployed in days.

“With Sola, enterprises can deploy AI automation in days, not quarters,” said Kimberly Tan of A16Z. “This goes far beyond the limits of traditional RPA, offering an AI-first approach that scales.” Conviction’s Sarah Guo added that the platform empowers the subject matter experts who actually perform the work to build and manage automations themselves, unlocking what she describes as “true at-scale AI adoption.”

The company’s emergence comes as enterprises worldwide are increasing investment in automation to offset rising labor costs, talent shortages, and the operational strain of disconnected legacy systems. While much of the public conversation around AI focuses on creative tools, analysts point out that some of the largest near-term productivity gains are coming from back-office automation, where processes are standardized, high-volume, and historically underserved by modern software. For industries such as logistics, healthcare, and legal services, the potential to reduce manual workload by 20–40% can translate into significant cost savings and capacity expansion.

The automation market has become increasingly competitive. Established vendors such as UiPath and Automation Anywhere are integrating generative AI into their platforms, while startups like Hyperscience and Tonkean have attracted major growth funding to expand their AI-driven process tools. Sola’s differentiator lies in its combination of AI-native architecture and accessibility for non-engineers, allowing adoption in organizations with limited IT bandwidth but high demand for efficiency gains.

With the new capital, Sola plans to expand its engineering and product teams, scale its go-to-market strategy, and grow its partner ecosystem to support broader enterprise adoption. The company will also invest in advancing its self-healing AI agents, enabling them to handle increasingly complex workflows across more industries.

Sola’s raise follows a wave of capital flowing into AI-powered automation platforms. In 2024, UiPath acquired London-based Re:infer to enhance natural language processing for enterprise workflows. Earlier this year, Automation Anywhere secured $200 million to embed generative AI into its process bots, while Hyperscience raised $50 million to expand AI-driven document processing. In the mid-market, Tonkean closed a $100 million Series B in June 2025 to scale AI-assisted process orchestration, and Cognigy brought in $50 million to grow conversational AI for service automation. Analysts say Sola’s no-code, “agentic” approach positions it uniquely in a crowded field increasingly focused on AI-first process execution