Excited to share I launched StepShot Docs on Product Hunt today. It’s a Windows app built to help founders and small teams turn workflows into clear step-by-step docs without the usual manual formatting. Would love any support or feedback. Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/ste…

I launched StepShot Docs on Product Hunt today. It’s a Windows app I’ve been building to make screenshot documentation less manual — capture steps, add captions, and export clean guides. Would love feedback from people building products. Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/ste…

1. ORIGINS & HISTORY 2005-2012 UiPath traces its roots to 2005, when Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă founded DeskOver in Bucharest to build software components and automation libraries for other vendors, largely bootstrapping the business. The early model focused on selling developer tools and SDKs that automated UI interactions, laying the technical foundation for later RPA products even though there was no clear category name at the time. As the team refined its technology, it gradually shifted from generic software components toward more explicit desktop automation solutions. This period was marked by a small engineering‑heavy organisation working out of Romania and serving customers globally through licensing rather than a SaaS model. 2012-2015 Around 2012, the company recognised growing demand for tools that could automate repetitive back office workflows and pivoted fully into robotic process automation. In this phase it released the first UiPath Desktop Automation product line and began to systematise RPA workflows rather than just offering components. They rebranded from DeskOver to UiPath in the mid‑2010s, signaling a strategic shift toward a platform identity and aligning the brand with “user interface” automation. 2015-2020 From 2015 onward, UiPath pursued an aggressive international expansion strategy, opening offices in major hubs such as London, New York, Bangalore, Paris, Singapore, Washington DC and Tokyo. This global presence helped it win large enterprise customers and build a broad partner ecosystem at an unusually early stage. 2021-2025 UiPath went public on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2021 under the ticker $PATH, raising roughly 1.4 billion dollars and achieving a valuation of around 35 billion dollars, making it one of the largest U.S. software IPOs and a landmark listing for a Europe‑born cloud company. Post IPO, UiPath continued to broaden from pure RPA into a business automation platform that integrates process discovery, AI, and analytics. To deepen its platform, UiPath pursued a sequence of acquisitions in areas such as process mining, task mining, and documentation, including companies like ProcessGold and StepShot, which helped combine insight into processes with the ability to automate them. This integration made UiPath one of the first scaled vendors to natively bundle process mining and RPA, strengthening its value proposition for large transformation programs. UiPath’s history is a progression from a niche Romanian tools shop to a global public company, leading an enterprise automation category that now blends RPA, process mining, and domain specific AI agents. An incredible achievement and testament to the abilities of CEO Daniel Dines.

Estonian accelerator @StartupWiseGuys exited from #Tallinn-based cyber tech startup @Trapmine, which develops anti-malware solutions. TRAPMINE was acquired by a US cybersecurity company. The buyer is undisclosed. Startup Wise Guys invested in TRAPMINE in 2017. According to the public information, other investors of TRAPMINE were co-founder of the #Danish Nordic secondary fund Peter Sandberg and business angel from Denmark @larsneupart. In addition, TRAPMINE participated in Startup Wise Guys's SaaS program, which took place in Riga at the end of 2017. During the acceleration program, the startup received €20K. Founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs from Turkey @celilunuver and Yasin Surer, AI-powered TRAPMINE provides endpoint protection against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware, and other forms of targeted attacks. Instead of pre-defining and statically detecting attacks, the solution determines the techniques used by the attacks and blocks them. Trapmine's team also developed ThreatScore, a machine learning-powered malware detection engine, which can identify known and never-before-seen malware. The company had three offices: in Tallinn, #Riga, and #Izmir (#Turkey). Launched in 2012, Estonian Startup Wise Guys is an accelerator that invests in early-stage startups from the Baltic, Central European, and African regions. It has invested in more than 350 startups and had 13 exits. Startup Wise Guys typically invests up to €500K per startup through multiple funds, which manage €45M and are backed by more than 150 investors. The CEO of Startup Wise Guys is @cristobalalonso. Previous notable exits from the Estonian accelerator's portfolio include VitalFields, (acquired in 2016 by Climate Corporation), StepShot (acquired in 2019 by UiPath), and Vochi (acquired in 2021 by Pinterest). #Estonia #startup #startups #tech #technology #technologies #TechnologyNews #TechNews #Deals #exit #ArtificialIntelligence #CyberSecurity

We had the pleasure of discussing with @sasha_reminnyi, former CEO of StepShot, the evolution of the startup ecosystem in the country, what it was like selling his company, and advice for founders considering acquisition offers for their startup. crew.vc/content/sasha-reminn…

UiPath は "Task Captre" の開発促進のため2019年にウクライナのStepShot社というスタートアップを買収したこともあり、ウクライナには30人もの同僚がいます。

Stepshot. Un studio de création de tutoriels complet et puissant. #tutos #utilitaires #Tice bit.ly/3v7QTAK

4⃣It’s acquired three companies 🇺🇦 tutorial creation software Stepshot (Aug 2019) 🇳🇱 data-based process optimisation company ProcessGold (Oct 2019) 🇺🇸 API integration platform Cloud Elements (Mar 2021)

Granted UiPath is more than just RPA as they acquired ProcessGold and StepShot late 2019 for procesd discovery (and intelligence?) and provide AI as part of their process automations.

📢 @UiPath the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company that also acquired our portfolio company StepShot almost one year ago, have launched UiPath Automation Awards 2020 competition! Applications open until August 30! bit.ly/38mC7vq

Automation AnywhereがDiscovery Botという新製品を発表。 現場で自動化できる業務を見つけやすくする製品です。 UiPathのプロセスゴールド、stepshotの買収もそうですが、グローバルのRPAベンダーが、「自動化する業務を見つける」という部分の製品を強化していますね。 automationanywhere.com/jp/pr…

#UiPath confirms #Layoffs after reaching $7 billion valuation forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/… #VC #RPA #Robotic #Process #Automation #Startup #Romania #NewYork #StepShot #ProcessGold #ArtificialIntelligence #DanielDines @OttLegalRebels @FGraillot @JimMarous ~#thejupaul @thejupaul

#RPA company @UiPath announced on Tuesday the acquisition of @StepShot and @ProcessGold. ow.ly/oFAN50wOC34

UiPath acquires ProcessGold and StepShot to help businesses identify RPA opportunities #entrepreneur for information

UiPathはプロセスマイニングベンダーのリーディング企業ProcessGold社の買収を発表。UiPathは世界で初めてプロセスマイニング機能とRPA機能を統合したソリューションを大規模に提供するベンダーになります💪ProcessGoldのStepShotの買収でUiPath Explorer製品ファミリー登場 uipath.com/ja/newsroom/2019-…

UiPathはラスベガスで開催されたFORWARD IIIで、プロセス・ドキュメンテーションのプロバイダーであるStepShot社の買収を発表しました。StepShot社およびProcessGold社の買収により、UiPath社は「UiPath Explorer」製品ファミリーをリリース。UiPath Explorer登場です！ uipath.com/ja/newsroom/2019-…

UiPath acquires ProcessGold and StepShot to help businesses identify RPA opportunities venturebeat.com/2019/10/15/u…

UiPath launches next-gen RPA platform; #acquires ProcessGold and StepShot | #technology bit.ly/2Ml7mxF

#UiPath adds Process Documentation to its portfolio with StepShot acquisition varindia.com/news/uipath-add… @UiPath

UiPath acquiert StepShot et ProcessGold pour explorer les processus à automatiser bit.ly/2Mn8n8p