Camunda GmbH
platformBPMN-based process orchestration for stateful, long-running workflows.
Camunda Services GmbH is a German process-orchestration software vendor headquartered in Berlin, founded in 2008 as a spinout from BPM consultancy Camunda Consulting. The company builds Camunda 8 (formerly Zeebe), a cloud-native BPMN/DMN workflow engine that competes with Temporal, Apache Airflow, and proprietary BPM suites. Camunda raised a $98M Series B in March 2022 led by Insight Partners, valuing the company at over $1B.
Our Take
We track Camunda for clients evaluating workflow engines in the BPMN-first segment. The Camunda 7 to Camunda 8 migration story is real and not trivial; budgeting 12-20 engineering weeks for a non-trivial Camunda 7 estate is realistic in our experience. — Rafal Fila, ShadowGen
What Sets Camunda GmbH Apart
Camunda is the only major workflow vendor whose product is anchored in the BPMN 2.0 standard, which means processes modeled in Camunda are portable in principle to any other BPMN engine. Compared to code-first orchestrators like Temporal or Apache Airflow, Camunda emphasizes a visual modeling layer that business analysts can read; compared to no-code automation platforms like Zapier or n8n, it targets engineering teams running stateful, long-running processes at enterprise scale.
Key Achievements
About Camunda GmbH
Camunda Services GmbH builds process orchestration software for engineering teams that need to automate long-running, stateful business processes across microservices, human tasks, and external systems. The company was founded in Berlin in 2008 by Bernd Rücker and Jakob Freund, originally as a consulting firm focused on BPMN process automation, and later pivoted to product after open-sourcing its embeddable workflow engine (Camunda Platform 7, originally a fork of Activiti).
The current product line is Camunda 8, based on the Zeebe distributed workflow engine donated to the company in 2017. Camunda 8 ships as a self-managed deployment and as Camunda Cloud (SaaS). The platform handles BPMN process models, DMN decision tables, and form-based human tasks, with execution durability backed by an event-sourced log rather than a traditional relational database — a deliberate architectural break from Camunda 7. Pricing for Camunda Cloud starts around $200/month for the Starter plan as of 2026; enterprise contracts scale with task volume.
Camunda raised its Series A in 2018 ($28M, Highland Europe), Series B in March 2022 ($98M led by Insight Partners at a stated $1B+ valuation), and has reported triple-digit ARR growth in 2023-2024 driven by adoption among financial services, telecommunications, and logistics firms migrating off legacy BPM suites. Public customers include Goldman Sachs, Allianz, Atlassian, Vodafone, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.