Ex-Amazon, Oracle engineers raise $4M for robotic process automation startup Kloud.io

Kloud.io today announced a $4 million seed round led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Jason Calacanis and Firebolt Ventures.
Founded in 2016, the Silicon Valley-based startup helps financial analysts access business data from multiple sources while staying inside a spreadsheet or similar tool. The company bills itself as a “robotic process automation” startup. Automation Anywhere and UiPath are some of the leading RPA startups.
Krishna Bhat, co-founder and CEO of Kloud.io, previously worked at Amazon for three years in Seattle. He still owns a home in the region and is a “huge Seahawks fan.” He met his co-founder, Sathish Raju, when they both worked at Oracle.
“Unlike other BI tools, Kloudio doesn’t create another data island or visualization tool,” Bhat told GeekWire. “We seek to empower business users in the tools that they are already using such as Excel or Google Sheets. There is no learning curve associated with it and doesn’t require engineering resources to implement.”