Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, announced $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to continue to grow its open-source orchestration platform with the launch of Kestra 2.0.
The funding round was led by RTP Global, with continued participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo. The round brings Kestra's total funding to $36 million.
The funding will accelerate the company's most significant product milestone and expand go-to-market operations across North America and Europe.
Enterprise automation has reached a breaking point. Organizations run workflows across cloud and on-prem infrastructure, AI agents, real-time data pipelines and microservices, stitched together with schedulers and scripts never designed for today's complexity. The result: silent failures, lengthy compliance reviews, and undocumented business-critical logic, Kestra said.
Kestra addresses this with a unified orchestration control plane: declarative by design, extensible across more than 1,200 plugins, and built for hybrid and air-gapped environments.
"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," said Thomas Cuvelier, partner at RTP Global.
The funding will accelerate four priorities:
- Kestra 2.0: A new distributed execution engine built for mission-critical reliability at scale, with real-time observability and native agentic orchestration.
- Kestra Cloud: A fully managed SaaS experience with usage-based pricing, empowering teams that want to move fast without self-hosting.
- Go-to-market expansion: Deepen Kestra's presence in North America and Europe, including growth across field engineering, partnerships and customer success.
- Open-source investment: Continued focus on developer experience, expanding the plugin ecosystem and strengthening the path from experimentation to enterprise deployment.
"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," said Emmanuel Darras, CEO and co-founder of Kestra.
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