UnifyApps, a new startup offering a suite of software development tools for businesses, has secured $20 million in funding.

TechCrunch reported investment today. It is described as a Series A round led by ICONIQ Growth. UnifyApps raised $11 million in seed funding a few months earlier.

Founded last year, UnifyApps offers a software suite that businesses can use to automate repetitive business tasks, create custom apps, and perform related tasks. Several features of the toolkit are powered by artificial intelligence. Additionally, it includes features that allow customers to create their own AI tools.

The first component of the UnifyApps product suite, Unify Automations, allows users to create software workflows to automate business tasks. The tool is accessible via a ChatGPT type interface. Workers can describe a task in natural language and ask the underlying AI to automatically generate a workflow that automates it.

UnifyApps has added several features to the offering designed to reduce the risk of technical issues. According to the company, there is a testing tool that allows users to check an automation workflow for bugs before deploying it. A so-called circuit breaker function can interrupt workflows immediately after a malfunction occurs to prevent the error from spreading to other systems.

Unify Automations is designed to integrate with a company’s existing applications. A sales team, for example, could create a workflow that syncs sales opportunities from Excel spreadsheets to a MongoDB database. The software also integrates with marketing tools, project management applications, and other services.

If a business cannot effectively perform a certain task using its existing applications, it can create a new one using the second component of the UnifyApps software suite. Unify Applications allows users to create simple programs through a code-free interface. The offering provides prepackaged interface elements, as well as connectors that allow a user-developed application to ingest data from external sources.

Businesses looking to automate complex tasks can use UnifyApps software to create AI agents. These are large language models optimized for a specific use case. UnifyApps can allow LLMs to access information from a company’s internal systems, block malicious prompts, and detect hallucinations.

The software maker’s suite of products is rounded out by an offering called Unify Data. It is designed to help customers manage the information used by their applications. The software can synchronize data between workloads, modify records being transferred, and detect any errors that may occur during the process.

Since its launch last year, UnifyApps has grown to a staff of 150 and an initial installed base of more than 20 customers. These organizations reportedly include one of the world’s largest banks and a major Internet service provider.

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