Kestra Technologies
startupKestra Technologies is the company behind Kestra, an open-source event-driven orchestration platform. Founded in 2021 in Paris by Emmanuel Darras (CEO) and Ludovic Dehon (CTO) and now headquartered in New York with a remote-first team, it raised a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global in March 2026, bringing total funding to $36 million.
About Kestra Technologies
Kestra Technologies develops Kestra, an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. The company was founded in 2021 in Paris by Emmanuel Darras (CEO) and Ludovic Dehon (CTO); the corporate headquarters is now New York, and the team is remote-first.
The company monetises through a closed-source Enterprise Edition (governance, RBAC, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, worker groups, tenant isolation) sold as a quote-based annual per-instance subscription, and a managed Kestra Cloud in early access as of July 2026. Funding: a $3 million pre-seed, an $8 million seed led by Alven (September 2024), and a $25 million Series A led by RTP Global with Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo (announced 31 March 2026), for $36 million in total. In the Series A announcement the company reported 25x enterprise revenue growth over the prior 18 months, 30,000+ organizations using the platform, and 2 billion workflow executions in 2025, with named customers including Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, BHP, Crédit Agricole, Bloomberg, and Xiaomi (vendor-claimed figures).