Kestra, a French unified orchestration platform, has raised $8 million in seed investment. The round was led by French VC Alven that backed Neural Concept and Supercede, alongside ISAI, Axeleo Capital, and numerous founders and CEOs from leading technology companies, including Tristan Handy (dbt Labs); Michel Tricot (Airbyte); Olivier Pomel (Datadog); Clement Delangue (Hugging Face); Bertrand Diard (Talend); Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia); and Frédéric Plais (Platform.sh).
The new capital will fuel the company’s growth strategy across North America and EMEA. It will also support Kestra’s hiring efforts, and continued growth, with a focus on enterprise-grade functionality and supporting multiple cloud platforms through a vast plugin ecosystem.
What does the company do?
Founded in 2021 by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon, the event-driven orchestration platform Kestra is designed to simplify orchestration for both engineers and business users. While many tools are overly complex or limited, Kestra provides a unified, scalable platform that is enterprise-ready and easy to use.
Kestra’s open-source community is thriving with developers contributing to the product in business automation, data pipelines, AI applications, microservice coordination, and more. Its versatility is driven by a vast plugin ecosystem connecting to over 500 tools (including Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, Terraform, etc.), orchestrating at scale across all major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
This broad approach and low barrier to entry make Kestra the only Unified Orchestration platform on the market, supporting all automation use cases and welcoming all user profiles. Kestra reduces tool proliferation, fosters internal knowledge sharing, and ensures future readiness.
It appeals to all developers as well as non-engineers. It has also proven successful with IT teams that expect high performance and observability at scale. Kestra Enterprise’s purpose-built features, such as reliable remote execution, integration with third-party secrets manager, and high availability, currently power business-critical workflows and event-driven applications in production for some of the most innovative companies.
“Our focus on scalability, real-time processing, and security is delivering results. Large organisations, including banks, retail companies, software providers, and government entities are executing millions of workflows with Kestra. The platform excels even in highly specialised cases like network monitoring and real-time fraud detection. Most importantly, configuring and scheduling these workflows remains effortless, thanks to a language-agnostic, declarative syntax combined with webhooks and event-driven triggers,” said Ludovic Dehon, CTO and Co-Founder of Kestra.
“The orchestration market is fragmented with siloed solutions addressing specific job scenarios. Business leaders face challenges in unifying best practices and tools across data, infrastructure, business process management, microservices, and more. They seek a unified platform to streamline operations, and this is where Kestra excels. Our growing enterprise customers show there’s demand for an API-first, user-friendly product that unites teams, workflows, and pipelines of all types,” said Emmanuel Darras, CEO and Co-Founder of Kestra.
“At Alven, we partner with visionary teams that are redefining industries, and Kestra embodies this by unifying and simplifying how companies orchestrate their most critical processes. In a world where reliability and scalability are essential, Kestra excels at managing mission-critical workflows at scale, streamlining everything from data pipelines to infrastructure operations. This makes them essential, especially for large corporations. We believe they are on the path to becoming the modern Enterprise Orchestrator, transforming operations, and we’re proud to support them,” said Victor Charpentier, Alven.
