Kestra – a unified orchestration platform – announced it raised $8 million in seed investment. This funding round is led by Alven, along with ISAI, Axeleo Capital, and several founders and CEOs from renowned technology companies who have invested in Kestra during this round, including Tristan Handy (dbt Labs); Michel Tricot (Airbyte); Olivier Pomel (Datadog); Clement Delangue (Hugging Face); Bertrand Diard (Talend); Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia); and Frédéric Plais (Platform.sh). The new funding round will accelerate hiring and fuel the company’s growth strategy across North America and EMEA.
Kestra is currently the fastest-growing open-source orchestration product in the market, executing several hundred million workflows, a tenfold increase in one year. There are thousands of organizations, including several global enterprises, that have utilized Kestra as the most production-ready and user-friendly platform to automate their mission-critical workflows.
Kestra’s funding round will drive continued expansion across North America and EMEA, as organizations increasingly depend on its enterprise-grade orchestration platform, which is built on a strong open-source foundation.
Kestra’s open-source community is thriving, with developers contributing to the product in business automation, data pipelines, AI applications, microservice coordination, etc. And its versatility is driven by a vast plugin ecosystem connecting to 500+ tools (including Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, Terraform, etc.), orchestrating at scale across all major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). And this approach and low barrier to entry make Kestra the only Unified Orchestration platform on the market, supporting all automation use cases and welcoming all user profiles. Kestra also reduces tool proliferation, fosters internal knowledge sharing, and ensures future readiness.
By supporting orchestration as code and through an intuitive UI, Kestra appeals to developers and non-engineers alike. It has also proven successful with IT teams that expect high performance and observability at scale.
Kestra Enterprise’s features like reliable remote execution, integration with third-party secrets manager, and high availability, currently power business-critical workflows and event-driven applications in production for some of the most innovative companies.
KEY QUOTES:
“At Alven, we partner with visionary teams that are redefining industries, and Kestra embodies this by unifying and simplifying how companies orchestrate their most critical processes. In a world where reliability and scalability are essential, Kestra excels at managing mission-critical workflows at scale, streamlining everything from data pipelines to infrastructure operations. This makes them essential, especially for large corporations. We believe they are on the path to becoming the modern Enterprise Orchestrator, transforming operations, and we’re proud to support them.”
-Victor Charpentier, Alven
“The orchestration market is fragmented with siloed solutions addressing specific job scenarios. Business leaders face challenges in unifying best practices and tools across data, infrastructure, business process management, microservices, and more. They seek a unified platform to streamline operations, and this is where Kestra excels. Our growing enterprise customers show there’s demand for an API-first, user-friendly product that unites teams, workflows, and pipelines of all types.”
-Emmanuel Darras, CEO and Co-Founder of Kestra
“Our focus on scalability, real-time processing, and security is delivering results. Large organizations—including banks, retail companies, software providers, and government entities—are executing millions of workflows with Kestra. The platform excels even in highly specialized cases like network monitoring and real-time fraud detection. Most importantly, configuring and scheduling these workflows remains effortless, thanks to a language-agnostic, declarative syntax combined with webhooks and event-driven triggers.”
-Ludovic Dehon, CTO and Co-Founder of Kestra
