The open-source orchestration platform from France has increased its enterprise revenue by 25 times in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the funding, bringing total investments to $36M.
Kestra, an open-source orchestration platform for data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows, has secured a $25 million Series A funding led by RTP Global, with ongoing support from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo.
This new round brings total funding to $36 million, following a $3 million pre-seed in 2023 and an $8 million seed in September 2024. The company was founded in Paris and is led by CEO Emmanuel Darras and CTO Ludovic Dehon.
Kestra’s growth metrics are impressive. Since the seed round 18 months earlier, Kestra has grown enterprise revenue by 25 times, executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025 (a 20x year-over-year increase), and now serves more than 30,000 organizations globally, boasting over 26,000 GitHub stars.
Kestra’s enterprise clients include Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, BHP, and Crédit Agricole. Use cases are diverse: Apple uses it to orchestrate AI pipelines; JPMorgan Chase processes billions of rows in cybersecurity analytics workflows; and BHP utilized Kestra to replace VMware vRA environments, reducing infrastructure provisioning time from six months to six days.
The orchestration market is highly fragmented. Large enterprises often run workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructures, AI agents, real-time data pipelines, and microservices, typically managed by schedulers and scripts not designed for today’s complexity. Kestra stands out with its declarative YAML-based approach, making workflow creation more accessible to a broader set of engineers and even non-engineers via a UI layer.
The platform supports over 1,200 plugins and is designed for hybrid and air-gapped environments.
The Series A funding will support four key areas. Kestra 2.0 will introduce a new distributed execution engine, real-time observability, and native agentic orchestration, allowing workflows to be defined in natural language and AI agents to generate and execute them with version control and auditability.
Additionally, Kestra Cloud will provide a fully managed SaaS option with usage-based pricing, and the go-to-market strategy will expand across North America and Europe.
Furthermore, ongoing open-source investment will enhance the plugin ecosystem and ease the transition from developer experimentation to enterprise deployment.