Kestra has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by RTP Global. Kestra offers an open-source orchestration platform used by over 30,000 organisations globally. Other investors include Alven, ISAI and Axeleo, which participated in the $8 million seed funding round in 2024. In total, Kestra has now raised around $36 million.
Since raising those funds in 2025, Kestra has seen strong growth. It has delivered 25x revenue growth amongst enterprise customers and increased executed workflows by 20x during 2025, breaking 2 billion.
The company is community-supported, with over 26,000 GitHub stars across 30,000+ organisations worldwide. Those organisations include Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, L’Oreal, Acxiom, BHP, Vissimo and Crédit Agricole.
Enterprise automation is breaking under its own complexity. Organisations run workflows across cloud and on‑prem systems, AI agents, real‑time data pipelines and microservices, often stitched together with legacy schedulers and scripts. This fragmentation leads to silent failures, drawn‑out compliance reviews, and critical logic that no one fully owns or understands.
Organisations are increasingly turning to Kestra to orchestrate mission-critical workflows across data, AI and infrastructure. Kestra brings order to this chaos with a unified orchestration control plane that is declarative, highly extensible with 1,200+ plugins, and built to operate seamlessly across hybrid and air‑gapped environments.
Kestra’s control plane orchestrates technology environments, unifying data pipelines, AI workflows, infrastructure automation, and business processes.
Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global, commented, “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.”
What will Kestra use the funds for
Kestra has already identified where it will use the money. It will invest heavily in R&D and accelerate the development and launch of Kestra 2.0. Kestra 2.0 will feature a new distribution engine built for mission-critical reliability at scale. It will also see the launch of Kestra Cloud, a SaaS-based platform with usage-based pricing. Kestra Cloud is a fully managed version of Kestra Enterprise Edition, hosted and maintained by the Kestra team.
It provides most of the features of the Enterprise Edition, plus the additional benefits of automatic updates, backups, and infrastructure monitoring.
In addition, Kestra will look to accelerate its go-to-market capabilities in both North America and Europe. The firm already has 17 open positions, mainly in Europe. The emphasis for these hires seems to be around development rather than sales and marketing, which is not unusual for a Series A round. The announcement indicated that Kestra would be investing in both regions across field engineering, partnerships and customer success.
Fourthly, Kestra intends to invest in the open-source platform. It will focus on improving the developer experience, expanding the plugin ecosystem, and strengthening the path from experimentation to enterprise deployment. However, it does not clarify how it intends to do this.
What does Kestra do?
Kestra has neatly summed up some of the feedback about how its platform works in production and why enterprises are standardising on it as they realise its strategic value:
- At Apple, hundreds of AI engineers orchestrate pipelines between their data warehouse and AI platform without managing the infrastructure underneath.
- At Toyota, Kestra unified previously siloed data and AI pipelines, creating a single governed control plane across platforms and environments.
- At JPMorgan Chase, security teams orchestrate cybersecurity analytics workflows that process billions of rows and trigger automated remediation across platforms.
- At BHP, Kestra replaced a VMware vRA environment across global mining facilities. Infrastructure provisioning went from six months to six days.
- At Crédit Agricole, infrastructure teams replaced fragmented scripts and cron jobs with a single orchestration layer that is secure and manageable across multiple teams.
- At Vissimo, Kestra was adopted as the orchestration backbone for both data and integration flow. After going live, there was a 40% reduction in BI and ETL platform costs alongside a significant drop in incidents, with failures becoming visible and manageable.
Emmanuel Darras, CEO and Co-Founder of Kestra, commented, “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.”
Enterprise Times: What does this mean
Market and Markets estimates that the global AI orchestration market size will reach USD 30.23 billion by 2030, up from USD 11.02 billion in 2025, at a CAGR of 22.3%. Kestra believes that its innovative, open-source approach gives it the flexibility and support to become the de facto standard in the industry. What is impressive is the customer list that it has already gathered during its early life.
It will now need to accelerate growth in its home region of Europe, where it is based, and continue its expansion in the US, competing with the likes of Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, and n8n.
Funding secured, and a new partner, RTP Global, an experienced investor with over $3 billion in assets under management. It will be interesting to see how it looks to expand in a competitive market as it scales up.
