Summary List PlacementUiPath, the task automation software maker that made a successful market debut on Wednesday, has become a feather in the cap of its investors, especially Laela Sturdy, General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent late-stage growth fund. She doggedly pursued a deal with UiPath's founder CEO Daniel Dines, chasing him around the globe and simply not taking no for an answer. It all began in 2017. On December 13 that year she booked a flight from San Francisco to New York to meet Dines.