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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
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
San Francisco, CA (HQ)
2261 Market St, STE 86462, San Francisco, CA 94114
PO Box 8115, Asheville, NC 28814
Business model
usage-based SaaS
API-first B2B platform
enterprise software
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$4M
Oct 2025 · 8VC
Jan 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
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.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based pricing: credits consumed each time a workflow is run; terms also reference tiered plans and monthly billing.
Differentiators
- —Automates browser-based workflows without requiring APIs
- —Deterministic cached actions for reliability
- —Handles browser session management, 2FA, and anti-bot measures
- —API-first developer experience with arbitrary code support
- —Enterprise monitoring, observability, and workflow execution controls
Technology
Playwright
Selenium
React
TypeScript
Ramp
Clerk
Datadog
Vercel
LaunchDarkly
Google Workspace API
Customers
Assort Health
Gracent
Augment
public companies
healthcare organizations with 1,000 clinicians
Competitors
UiPath
Workato
Medallion
Simple Fractal
airSlate
Conga
Instabase
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1M ARR (public estimate; GetLatka, Sep 2025)
Latest news
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.
Jobs and careers at Kaizen
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