Orchestration is at the core of the modern business infrastructure, and today, we're taking a huge step toward transforming how it's done. We’re thrilled to announce Kestra's $8 million Seed round, led by Alven (Stripe, Dataiku, Qonto, Algolia) with participation from ISAI, Axeleo, and key tech leaders such as Olivier Pomel, Tristan Handy, Michel Tricot, Clément Delangue. This funding marks the next chapter in our mission to redefine orchestration for enterprises worldwide, empowering engineers to simplify the most complex workflows at an unprecedented scale.
This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the trust of our growing community. Since raising $3 million in pre-seed funding last year, Kestra has surpassed every expectation:
- We’ve expanded our use cases far beyond what we initially envisioned.
- We’ve proven our platform’s resilience across large-scale, mission-critical workloads.
- We’ve heard from countless users who confirm that Kestra delivers on its simplicity, transparency, and reliability promise.
A Growing Trust in Kestra
Today, Kestra’s adoption has skyrocketed by 10x. Thousands of companies, from ambitious startups to Fortune 100, use Kestra to orchestrate their most critical workflows. This drives us to keep pushing boundaries and simplifying orchestration in ways that were previously unimaginable.
Our $8 million Seed round is a testament to the confidence our investors have in Kestra’s future. In addition to Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo, we’re proud to be supported by an impressive lineup of private investors, including:
- Olivier Pomel (Co-founder and CEO of Datadog),
- Tristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs),
- Michel Tricot (Co-founder and CEO of Airbyte),
- Clément Delangue (Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face),
- Bertrand Diard (Co-founder of Talend),
- Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-founder of Algolia & Group Partner at Y Combinator),
- Frédéric Plais (Co-founder and CEO of Platform.sh)
- David Perry, John Britton, Antoine Balliet, Zachary Smith, Arnaud Ferreri.
This funding enables us to accelerate our growth, expand our team, and continue delivering exceptional value to engineers and enterprises alike.
Why We Built Kestra: Bridging the Orchestration Gap
Existing tools often solve specific needs—whether it's automating data pipelines, managing IT tasks, or coordinating business processes—but they tend to operate in silos. These siloed solutions introduce complexity, demand specialized skills, and ultimately create unnecessary risks, where what’s needed is efficiency, transparency, and reliability.
At Kestra, we recognized this gap and set out to build a unified orchestration platform that simplifies workflows across any infrastructure, cloud, or application. Our vision was to create an orchestration tool that engineers love to use, one that breaks down barriers and scales seamlessly.
Simplifying Complexity, Elevating Workflows
Kestra is designed to simplify complexity. With a declarative, language-agnostic framework, an API-first approach, and our Everything as Code and from the UI or following GitOps philosophy, Kestra is intuitive yet incredibly powerful. It’s a platform engineers can adopt quickly, customize extensively, and rely on for any workflow, no matter how complex.
"Kestra has been essential in designing complex execution flows while enhancing our Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.", Gorgias.
A Platform Without Limits
Kestra isn’t just another orchestration tool. It’s a platform built to handle workflows of any type, across any domain. Whether it’s automating infrastructure, transforming and transporting data, coordinating microservices, or real-time network monitoring, Kestra’s flexibility and extensibility make it a trusted solution for a wide range of challenges.
And we’re not stopping there. We continue to expand Kestra’s capabilities with new features and integrations, constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Built on the Power of Open Source
At the heart of Kestra’s success is our global open-source community. We empower engineers to easily adopt and integrate Kestra into their workflows by embracing open-source principles. This openness accelerates innovation, fosters collaboration, and ensures that Kestra is continuously improving based on real-world needs. It’s why thousands of production environments around the world depend on Kestra to power their most critical workflows.
Scaling Beyond Limits: Orchestrating the Future
In just one year, Kestra has grown by 10x, and today, hundreds of millions of workflows are powered by our platform. We’ve become the orchestration layer of choice for software engineers, DevOps experts, and IT leaders across the tech landscape.
Kestra enables users to orchestrate workflows in under 5 minutes through:
- Seamless workflow design: Easily build workflows through our intuitive UI or directly within your favorite IDE.
- 500+ integrations: Connect with major technologies incl. AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Docker, GitHub, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, SQL Server, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, and many more.
- Deploy anywhere: Run Kestra on any cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises, or even on your laptop using Docker.
"Kestra is the unifying layer for our data and workflows. You can start small, but scale without limits.", Leroy Merlin.
Resilient Orchestration at Scale for Critical Workflows
As organizations grow, so do their orchestration needs. For businesses managing mission-critical workflows, Kestra elevates its capabilities to meet these demands.
Building on Kestra’s core strengths, we offer enhanced security, governance, and monitoring to support large-scale, business-critical operations. It also ensures real-time performance and seamless integration with features like SSO, CI/CD pipelines, and secret managers.
With Kestra, organizations gain the reliability required to scale their workflows confidently, no matter the complexity or size of their operations.
Orchestrating with Kestra Enterprise: Trusted by Industry Leaders for Mission-Critical Workflows.
Looking Ahead: Innovating and Expanding
With this second $8 million funding round, we’re excited to enter the next phase of Kestra's growth. Our commitment to continuous improvement drives us to expand the platform’s capabilities — enhancing our ecosystem with more third-party integrations, simplifying plugin management, and improving the orchestration experience for all engineers.
We’re planning to expand into the U.S. to better support our North American clients, bringing us closer to them for improved collaboration and service. Meanwhile, we’re growing our team across Europe and North America, hiring key roles such as Software Engineers, DevOps, Architects, Solution Engineers, GTMs, and Marketing professionals.
Most importantly, we know that Kestra’s success is driven by the talented and dedicated people behind the platform. Thank you Team ❤️, your commitment to pushing the boundaries of orchestration is what sets us apart, and we look forward to growing this exceptional group to take on the challenges ahead.
Thank you to our users, customers, and investors for driving Kestra forward in our mission to transform orchestration. Help us build the leading platform for Unified Orchestration by starring us on GitHub and joining this exciting journey.
Orchestrate Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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