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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreIn the past year, the race to automate has intensified, with AI agents emerging as the ultimate game-changers for enterprise efficiency. While generative AI tools have made significant strides over the past three years — acting as valuable assistants in enterprise workflows — the spotlight is now shifting to AI agents capable of thinking, acting and collaborating autonomously. For enterprises preparing to embrace the next wave of intelligent automation, understanding the leap from chatbots to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications to autonomous multi-agent AI is crucial. As Gartner noted in a recent survey, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024.As Google Brain founder Andrew Ng aptly stated: “The set of tasks that AI can do will expand dramatically because of agentic workflows.” This marks a paradigm shift in how organizations view the potential of automation, moving beyond predefined processes to dynamic, intelligent workflows.The limitations of traditional automationDespite their promise, traditional automation tools are constrained by rigidity and high implementation costs. Over the past decade, robotic process automation (RPA) platforms like UiPath and Automation Anywhere have struggled with workflows lacking clear processes or relying on unstructured data

Zitadel, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of cloud-native identity infrastructure solutions, raised $9M in Series A funding.The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Floodgate.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand its technical team, and strengthen its market position.Led by CEO Florian Forster, Zitadel is a provider of cloud-native identity infrastructure solutions for multi-tenant, authentication, authorization, and user management. Designed for scalability, flexibility, and security, it empowers organizations to protect their cloud infrastructure and applications.Zitadel serves a globally distributed customer base of over 150 businesses with an identity platform that caters to a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, finance, education, healthcare, and SaaS.FinSMEs20/11/2024The Series A investment will enable Zitadel to accelerate product development, expand its technical team, and strengthen its position as the leading solution in cloud-native identity security. Developers will be able to create fully customizable login experiences that seamlessly integrate with existing protocols like SAML2 and OpenID Connect. Security operators will be empowered to derive actionable insights through data aggregation, enabling them to monitor compliance and security across user behaviors and application usage patterns. By streamlining complex processes, security operators can leverage advanced usage analytics and threat intelligence capabilities, allowing them to focus on strategic security initiatives.For more information about Zitadel, please visit: https://zitadel.com/About ZitadelZitadel is the leading provider of cloud-native identity infrastructure solutions. Its platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for multi-tenant, authentication, authorization, and user management