The French open-source orchestration platform has grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the round; total funding reaches $36M.
Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform for data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows, has raised a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global, with continued participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo.
The round takes total funding to $36 million, following a $3 million pre-seed in 2023 and an $8 million seed in September 2024. The Paris-founded company is co-founded and led by CEO Emmanuel Darras and CTO Ludovic Dehon.
The growth numbers behind the round are striking. Since the seed round 18 months ago, Kestra has grown enterprise revenue 25x, executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025 (up 20x year-over-year), and now counts more than 30,000 organisations worldwide using the platform, with 26,000+ GitHub stars.
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Enterprise customers include Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, BHP, and Crédit Agricole. The use cases are varied: at Apple, hundreds of AI engineers orchestrate pipelines between data warehouse and AI platform.
At JPMorgan Chase, security teams process billions of rows through cybersecurity analytics workflows; at BHP, Kestra replaced a VMware vRA environment across global mining facilities, cutting infrastructure provisioning time from six months to six days.
The orchestration market is genuinely fragmented. Most large enterprises run workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, AI agents, real-time data pipelines, and microservices, historically stitched together with schedulers and scripts never designed for today’s complexity.
The dominant incumbents (Apache Airflow chief among them) are Python-centric and require specialised data engineering skills; Kestra’s differentiation is its declarative YAML-based approach, which makes workflow creation accessible to a broader range of engineers and, through a UI layer, even to non-engineers.
The platform supports 1,200+ plugins and is built for hybrid and air-gapped environments.
The Series A funds four priorities. Kestra 2.0, the company’s next major release, will bring a new distributed execution engine with real-time observability and native agentic orchestration, the ability to define workflows in natural language and have AI agents generate and execute them while keeping every action version-controlled and auditable.
Kestra Cloud will offer a fully managed SaaS option with usage-based pricing. Go-to-market will expand across North America and Europe.
And continued open-source investment will deepen the plugin ecosystem and the path from developer experimentation to enterprise deployment.
