Kestra Technologies

Kestra Technologies builds Kestra, an open-source, declarative, event-driven orchestration platform for data pipelines, infrastructure, applications, AI workflows and business processes. Its stated mission is to let developers orchestrate any workflow, in any language, on any infrastructure, with code and UI working together.

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At a Glance

La MadeleineHeadquarters

2021Est.

42Employees

$36MRaised

Focus Areas

Infrastructure Automation

Workflow Automation

LLM Orchestration

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Kestra

Open Source YAML Workflow Orchestrator

Workflow Automation LLM Orchestration Infra Automation

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Latest News

09/08/2026

Kestra 2.0 launched with a new distributed execution engine, workers anywhere, and flows exposed as AI-agent tools.

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08/24/2026

Kestra joined the DigitalOcean Partner Program and released a dedicated DigitalOcean plugin and blueprints.

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03/31/2026

Kestra announced a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global, bringing total funding to $36 million, and outlined Kestra 2.0 and Kestra Cloud investment.

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11/18/2025

Kestra and Conapi announced a partnership connecting Kestra orchestration with Gravitee API management and JMS integration.

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Products & Services

Kestra Open-Source Edition

2021

Apache 2.0-licensed, self-hosted declarative orchestration platform with unlimited flows and executions, code and no-code editors, event-driven scheduling, Git integration, multi-cloud/air-gapped deployment and 2,200+ plugins.

Kestra Enterprise Edition

2023

Commercial edition for mission-critical, multi-team deployments, adding SSO/OIDC, SCIM, RBAC, multi-tenancy, policies, audit logs, cases, worker groups, task runners, secrets management, high availability, enterprise plugins and SLA-backed support.

Kestra Cloud

2026

Fully managed SaaS offering with hosting, upgrades, monitoring, automatic scaling, built-in security/governance, enterprise plugins and usage-based pricing.

Kestra 1.0

September 9, 2025

Major release adding declarative orchestration as code and from the UI, AI Copilot, AI Agents, MCP server, AI-powered search, no-code editor improvements, plugin versioning, unit tests, flow SLAs and production deployment enhancements.

Market Position

Kestra positions itself as a universal, language-agnostic orchestration control plane spanning data, infrastructure, applications, business workflows and AI, rather than a Python-only data orchestrator or a narrow infrastructure scheduler. Its main alternatives include Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Temporal, Argo Workflows, Azure Data Factory and AWS Step Functions; Kestra differentiates through declarative YAML plus UI, broad plugin coverage, event-driven execution, hybrid/air-gapped support and one platform across multiple teams and workload types.

Leadership

Founders

Emmanuel Darras

CEO and co-founder; previously co-founded Ankama.

Ludovic Dehon

CTO and co-founder; software engineer turned entrepreneur and creator of AKHQ, the open-source Kafka GUI.

Executive Team

Emmanuel Darras

CEO and Co-Founder

Serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of Ankama.

Ludovic Dehon

CTO and Co-Founder

Software engineer and entrepreneur; creator of AKHQ.

Founding Story

The underlying project began in 2019 at Leroy Merlin France, where the data team was migrating from Teradata to BigQuery and needed to scale thousands of workflows while existing orchestrators were too fragile, slow or restrictive. Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon developed Kestra around an engineer-friendly, enterprise-ready and open-source approach: declarative workflows that could span data, infrastructure and applications rather than being locked to one language or team.

Business Model

Revenue

Enterprise revenue grew 25× in the 18 months after the September 2024 seed round; the company reported more than 2 billion workflows executed in 2025.

Revenue Model

Open-source self-hosting is free; Kestra monetizes through annual per-instance Enterprise subscriptions with support and SLAs, plus Kestra Cloud as a fully managed, usage-based SaaS service.

Pricing Tiers

Open Source

Free

Self-hosted production-ready orchestration with unlimited flows and executions and 2,200+ plugins.

Kestra Cloud

Usage-based; rate not published

Fully managed hosting, upgrades, monitoring, scaling, security/governance and enterprise plugins; access is requested through Kestra.

Enterprise Edition

Custom annual subscription

Per-instance model with unlimited flows/tasks/executions, enterprise governance/security, customer-success program and SLA-backed support.

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Enterprise data and platform engineering teams
Infrastructure, DevOps and IT operations teams
AI/ML and analytics teams
Financial services and banking
Retail and e-commerce
Manufacturing and industrial companies

Use Cases

Data pipelines and ETL/ELT
Data ingestion and integration
Machine-learning model deployment and AI/RAG workflows
Event-driven automation and real-time processing/change-data capture
Infrastructure provisioning and orchestration
CI/CD and Terraform automation

Notable Customers

Apple
Toyota
JPMorgan Chase
BHP

Quick Facts

Headquarters

81 rue du Pré Catelan, 59110 La Madeleine, France

Founded

2021

Employees

Total Funding

$36 million

Investors

RTP Global, Alven

Funding History

Pre-seed$3 million

October 5, 2023

ISAI

Axeleo Capital

Seed$8 million

September 23, 2024

Alven

Series A$25 million

March 31, 2026

RTP Global

History & Milestones

September 8, 2026

Released Kestra 2.0 with a rebuilt distributed execution engine, workers that can run across regions or air-gapped networks, and MCP-based flow-as-agent-tool capabilities.

March 31, 2026

Raised a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global, bringing total funding to $36 million; announced investment in Kestra 2.0, Kestra Cloud and international go-to-market expansion.

September 9, 2025

Launched Kestra 1.0, its enterprise-ready declarative and agentic orchestration release.

September 23, 2024

Raised an $8 million seed round led by Alven, with participation from ISAI, Axeleo and technology leaders.

October 5, 2023

Raised $3 million in pre-seed funding, co-led by ISAI and Axeleo Capital, with technology-founder angel participation.

Key Capabilities

Declarative YAML workflows and synchronized code/no-code editors

Event-driven scheduling, retries, backfills, failure handling and long-running stateful workflows

2,200+ plugins/integrations for databases, cloud services, SaaS, APIs, messaging and developer tools

Language-agnostic execution for SQL, Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, containers and custom tools

Git version control, CI/CD and Terraform integrations

AI Copilot, autonomous AI Agents, MCP server and flow-as-tool capabilities

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Self-hosted on Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
Cloud deployment integrations for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud and DigitalOcean
Task runners for Kubernetes, AWS batch/container services, Azure Batch, Google Cloud Run/Compute Engine and Huawei Cloud CCI
Storage and queues including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, AMQP, GCP Pub/Sub, S3, Azure Blob, GCS and other backends
Developer and data integrations including Git/GitHub/GitLab, Terraform, dbt, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Airbyte, Docker, MongoDB, SQL Server and REST APIs
MCP server and tool triggers for AI-agent clients

Key Partnerships

DigitalOcean technology partner; Kestra released a dedicated DigitalOcean plugin and starter blueprints in August 2026.

Conapi partnership to combine Kestra workflow orchestration with Gravitee API management and a JMS integration plugin.

Integrations and ecosystem relationships across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, Kafka, GitHub, Terraform, Docker and other platforms.