Kestra, a NYC-based provider of an open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by RTP Global.
The round also saw participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo. The raise brought the total amount to $36M.
The company plans to use the funds to speed up the launch of Kestra 2.0 and grow its sales and marketing operations in North America and Europe.
Enterprise automation is at a tipping point. Businesses manage workflows across cloud and on-prem systems, AI agents, real-time data pipelines, and microservices, often using schedulers and scripts that weren’t made for today’s complexity. This leads to hidden failures, long compliance checks, and undocumented critical processes.
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Kestra solves this with a unified orchestration platform that is declarative, supports over 1,200 plugins, and works across hybrid and air-gapped environments.
Since its seed round 18 months ago, Kestra has increased enterprise revenue 25× and run over 2 billion workflows in 2025, a 20× jump from the previous year. With more than 26,000 GitHub stars and adoption by over 30,000 organizations worldwide, Kestra is the fastest-growing open-source orchestration platform in the industry.
Engineers use Kestra because it works reliably in production, and enterprises adopt it as a strategic standard once they see the value.
Kestra helps top enterprises simplify complex workflows at Apple, AI engineers run pipelines without managing infrastructure at Toyota, siloed data and AI pipelines were unified at JPMorgan Chase, security teams automate billions of rows with remediation at BHP, infrastructure provisioning dropped from six months to six days; and at Crédit Agricole, scripts and cron jobs were consolidated into one secure orchestration layer.
“As workflows grow more distributed and AI-driven, old schedulers and fragmented tools can’t keep up and the consequences are real,” said Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global. “Kestra is becoming the orchestration layer modern enterprises need. Emmanuel, Ludovic, and the team combine strong technical vision with proven enterprise traction, positioning Kestra to become the global standard for workflow orchestration.”
“Most enterprise software companies sell top-down and hope developers follow. We did the opposite. Engineers adopted Kestra not because of marketing, but because it solved their problems and worked. Everything we’ve built since comes from that trust — the only way to create lasting enterprise infrastructure in 2026,” said Emmanuel Darras, CEO and Co-founder of Kestra.
About Kestra
Founded in 2022 by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon, Kestra Technologies is the company behind Kestra. This open-source orchestration platform unifies data pipelines, AI workflows, infrastructure automation, and business processes into a single control plane for modern distributed architectures. It is trusted by over 30,000 organizations worldwide — including Bloomberg, Toyota, BHP, Crédit Agricole, JPMorgan Chase, Apple, and Xiaomi — executing more than 2 billion workflows in 2025.
About RTP Global
RTP Global is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in founders using technology to reshape industries. Since 2000, it has made over 110 investments worldwide, with about one in ten becoming multi-billion-dollar companies. Notable investments include Datadog, DeliveryHero, Cred, and SumUp. RTP Global has offices in New York, London Paris and Bangalore.
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