Kestra raises USD $25 million to expand workflow platform
Kestra has raised USD $25 million in a Series A round led by RTP Global, bringing the workflow orchestration company's total funding to USD $36 million.
Existing investors Alven, ISAI and Axeleo also participated. The funding will support the release of Kestra 2.0, the rollout of Kestra Cloud, and commercial expansion in North America and Europe.
Kestra sells an open-source orchestration platform for managing workflows across data systems, AI tools, infrastructure and business operations. The company argues that businesses are struggling to coordinate increasingly fragmented processes spread across cloud services, on-premises systems, microservices and AI applications.
It says it executed more than 2 billion workflows in 2025 and has grown enterprise revenue 25-fold since its seed round 18 months ago. Its software also has more than 26,000 GitHub stars and is used by more than 30,000 organisations worldwide.
Customer base
Named customers include Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, BHP and Crédit Agricole. At Apple, hundreds of AI engineers use the platform to orchestrate pipelines between the company's data warehouse and AI systems without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Kestra also pointed to deployments at several large organisations. At Toyota, the platform has brought separate data and AI pipelines into a single governed control plane. At JPMorgan Chase, security teams use it to run cybersecurity analytics workflows and trigger automated remediation across platforms.
In the resources sector, BHP used Kestra to replace a VMware vRA environment across mining facilities globally, according to the company. It says infrastructure provisioning at the miner fell from six months to six days.
Crédit Agricole replaced a collection of scripts and cron jobs with a single orchestration layer. More broadly, Kestra's pitch is that businesses want fewer disconnected automation tools and clearer visibility into business-critical processes.
Product plans
Kestra 2.0 is expected to include a new distributed execution engine, real-time observability, and what the company describes as native agentic orchestration. Kestra Cloud will be offered as a managed service with usage-based pricing for customers who do not want to self-host the software.
The platform is designed for hybrid and air-gapped environments and supports more than 1,200 plugins, according to the company. That breadth is important for large organisations operating across legacy IT estates and newer cloud-based systems, especially in regulated sectors where data movement and operational control are tightly managed.
RTP Global said demand is rising as workflow systems grow more complex.
"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, RTP Global.
Founded in 2021 by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon, Kestra is part of a broader group of software suppliers trying to simplify workflow management as businesses add more data tools, AI systems and automated infrastructure to daily operations.
Darras said Kestra's growth has been driven by engineers adopting the software first, followed by broader company-wide rollouts.
"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, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Kestra.