Kestra has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by RTP Global, with participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo, bringing its total funding to $36 million.
The company, which provides an open-source orchestration platform that unifies data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows, has seen rapid growth since its seed round 18 months ago. Kestra reported a 25× increase in enterprise revenue and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025, representing a 20× year-over-year increase. The platform has also gained significant developer traction, with more than 26,000 GitHub stars across over 30,000 organizations globally.
Kestra addresses what it describes as a growing orchestration challenge within enterprises, where workflows span cloud and on-prem infrastructure, AI systems, real-time data pipelines, and microservices. These systems are often stitched together using legacy schedulers and scripts, creating risks such as system failures, compliance challenges, and fragmented operational logic.
The company’s platform provides a unified orchestration control plane designed to be declarative, extensible through more than 1,200 plugins, and compatible with hybrid and air-gapped environments.
Kestra is already deployed across major global enterprises. At Apple, engineers use the platform to orchestrate AI and data pipelines without managing underlying infrastructure. Toyota has used Kestra to unify previously siloed workflows, while JPMorgan Chase applies it to cybersecurity analytics processes handling billions of data rows. BHP has leveraged the platform to reduce infrastructure provisioning timelines from six months to six days, and Crédit Agricole has replaced fragmented automation scripts with a centralized orchestration layer.
The new funding will support four key initiatives: the launch of Kestra 2.0, featuring a new distributed execution engine with real-time observability and agentic orchestration capabilities; the rollout of Kestra Cloud, a fully managed SaaS offering with usage-based pricing; expansion of go-to-market operations across North America and Europe; and continued investment in the open-source ecosystem, including developer experience and plugin expansion.
Kestra was founded in 2021 by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon and is used by organizations including Bloomberg, Toyota, BHP, Crédit Agricole, JPMorgan Chase, Apple, and Xiaomi.
KEY QUOTES:
“As workflows become more distributed and AI-native, legacy schedulers and fragmented tooling can’t keep up, and the cost of that gap is no longer theoretical. Kestra is emerging as the orchestration layer modern enterprises need. Emmanuel, Ludovic and the team have combined deep technical vision with impressive enterprise traction, and we believe Kestra is positioned to become the global standard for workflow orchestration.”
Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global
“Most enterprise software companies try to sell top-down and hope developers adopt. We inverted that model. Engineers didn’t adopt Kestra because we marketed to them, they adopted it because they were frustrated, and Kestra worked. Everything we’ve built since flows from that trust. That’s the only way to build durable enterprise infrastructure in 2026.”
Emmanuel Darras, CEO and Co-founder of Kestra
