LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Michael Silver said Kaizen had become a leading option for back-office operations in healthcare, had automated 1,000,000+ workflows, and was hiring for several core roles in San Francisco.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Kaizen is a 2025 San Francisco startup building an API-first browser automation platform that turns plain-English workflows into deterministic cloud automations for legacy, non-API web portals, with a strong focus on healthcare, logistics, finance, and other ops-heavy workflows.
Primary product
A browser automation platform / API for building deterministic web automations without APIs.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI browser automation / workflow automation
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$4M
Oct 2025 · 8VC
Jan 2025 · Y Combinator
Early-stage, founder-led, fast-moving startup culture with a very small team, strong product/backlog intensity, and public signs of San Francisco in-office collaboration alongside distributed hiring/operations.
Compensation
No formal public comp policy was found; a third-party news writeup cited founding-role hiring bands around $130K-$235K plus equity, and a Chief of Staff role around $140K-$190K plus equity.
Pricing
Usage-based pricing: credits consumed each time a workflow is run; terms also reference tiered plans and monthly billing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$1M ARR (public estimate; GetLatka, Sep 2025)
LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Michael Silver said Kaizen had become a leading option for back-office operations in healthcare, had automated 1,000,000+ workflows, and was hiring for several core roles in San Francisco.
LinkedIn · Oct 2025
Ken Acquah announced Kaizen’s public launch and $4M raise from 8VC, with participation from Y Combinator, Jeff Dean, Matteo Franceschetti, and Calvin French-Owen.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Oct 2025
YC confirmed the $4M seed round and described Kaizen as automating complex browser workflows in healthcare, finance, and logistics.
Kaizen blog
Customer case study describing how Assort Health used Kaizen to automate healthcare operations, speed customer implementations, and reclaim operations bandwidth.
Kaizen blog
Customer case study describing how Gracent used Kaizen to eliminate manual eligibility verification workflows and reduce administrative headcount requirements.