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5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO

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These are mostly data entry and data validation jobs. It’s simply suboptimal to hire, train and deploy remote employees to run routine processes, which are prone to, among other things, human error and boredom. Most of these tasks will be automated in the next couple of years.

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Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

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Census , a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. ” Census explains in today’s announcement.