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Celonis — Startup ProfileThe global leader in Process Mining and Process IntelligenceHQ: Munich, Germany & New York, NY, USA | Founded: 2011 | Employees: ~3,000-3,700 (2023-2025) | Stage: Late-Stage Private / Series D | Website: https://www.celonis.comAboutCelonis was founded in 2011 by Alexander Rinke, Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk while they were students at the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich). What began as a university consulting project analyzing business processes for a media company became a global enterprise software leader. Its core innovation is Process Mining — reconstructing end-to-end processes from event logs in SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and other systems to create a digital twin ("X-ray") of operations, revealing bottlenecks, deviations and automation opportunities. This evolved into the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS) and later the Celonis Process Intelligence Graph, adding real-time intelligence, automation triggers, and AI/LLM capabilities.The company is dual-headquartered in Munich and New York, Key Metrics

Valuation: $13B (Series D Extension, Aug 2022)

Total Funding: $1.77B equity + $600M debt ($2.37B total)

Revenue: $770M (2023), ~$600M (2022), $100M (2020)

Customers: 3,000+ enterprises (BMW, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone)

Employees: ~3,000 (2023) → ~3,700 (2025)

Headquarters: Munich, Germany & New York, NY

Funding Rounds

Round: $27.5M (2016-06-22) — Accel, 83North

Round: $50M (2018-06-19) — Accel, 83North

Round: $290M (2019-11-21) — Arena Holdings, Accel, 83North

Round: $1B (2021-06-02) — Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton, Splunk Ventures

Round: $400M (2022-08-23) — Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Activant Capital

Key People

Alexander Rinke

Bastian Nominacher

Martin Klenk

Amit Bendov

Key Competitors

SAP Signavio —

UiPath (Process Mining) —

IBM (myInvenio / Process Mining) —

Microsoft (Process Advisor / Power Automate) —

Timeline Highlights

2023-06-15: Acquires Symbio & Hits $770M Revenue

2022-08-23: Series D Extension $400M at $13B + $600M Debt

2021-06-02: Series D $1B at $11B — Germany's Most Valuable Startup

2019-11-21: Series C $290M at $2.5B Valuation

2016-06-22: Series A $27.5M — First Institutional Round