Kestra raises another $8M for its open-source orchestration platform
It’s right there in the company’s name — Kestra is all about or-kestra-tion. The product acts a bit like a train station manager, but for a business environment: Kestra makes sure the trains run on time, are on the right tracks and are heading to the right station.
In more complex terms, Kestra is an event-driven orchestration and scheduling platform that lets companies define and automate complex data workflows. The startup just raised an $8 million funding round led by Alven, with existing investors Isai and Axeleo participating once again.
What’s interesting about this funding round is that it has come less than a year after the company’s $3 million pre-seed round. Kestra says it now manages 10 times as many workflows as it did a year earlier, with thousands of organizations using its platform to manage hundreds of millions of workflows.
Kestra is also backed by a list of business angels who are quite familiar with the world of data engineering: Tristan Handy from dbt Labs; Michel Tricot from Airbyte; Olivier Pomel from Datadog; Clement Delangue from Hugging Face; Bertrand Diard from Talend; Nicolas Dessaigne from Algolia; and Frédéric Plais from Platform.sh.
