French open-source orchestration platform Kestra secures $25 million in funding.

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra secures $25 million in funding.

      The French open-source orchestration platform has increased its enterprise revenue by 25 times over the past 18 months and processed more than 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global is leading this funding round, bringing the total investment to $36 million.

      Kestra, an open-source orchestration platform for data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows, has secured a $25 million Series A funding round, spearheaded by RTP Global, with ongoing support from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo. This new round adds to the overall funding total of $36 million, following a $3 million pre-seed round in 2023 and an $8 million seed round in September 2024. The company, founded in Paris, is co-founded and managed by CEO Emmanuel Darras and CTO Ludovic Dehon.

      The growth metrics associated with this round are impressive. Since the seed round 18 months ago, Kestra has seen a 25-fold growth in enterprise revenue, executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025 (a 20-fold increase year-over-year), and now has over 30,000 organizations globally using its platform, alongside more than 26,000 GitHub stars.

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      At JPMorgan Chase, security teams analyze billions of rows using cybersecurity analytics workflows; at BHP, Kestra has replaced a VMware vRA environment in global mining operations, reducing infrastructure provisioning time from six months to just six days.

      The orchestration market is notably fragmented. Many large enterprises operate workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructures, AI agents, real-time data pipelines, and microservices, traditionally connected through schedulers and scripts that were never intended for today’s complexities.

      The main existing players, particularly Apache Airflow, are primarily Python-centric and necessitate specialized data engineering expertise. Kestra differentiates itself with its declarative YAML-based approach, enabling a wider range of engineers, and even non-engineers via a UI layer, to create workflows. The platform supports over 1,200 plugins and is designed for hybrid and air-gapped environments.

      The Series A funding will support four key initiatives. Kestra 2.0, the company’s forthcoming major release, will introduce a new distributed execution engine complete with real-time observability and native agentic orchestration. This will allow users to define workflows in natural language while leveraging AI agents to create and execute them, ensuring all actions remain version-controlled and auditable.

      Kestra Cloud will provide a fully managed SaaS solution with usage-based pricing. The go-to-market strategy will expand throughout North America and Europe. Additionally, ongoing investments in open-source will enhance the plugin ecosystem and facilitate the transition from developer experimentation to enterprise deployment.

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra secures $25 million in funding.

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French open-source orchestration platform Kestra secures $25 million in funding.

The open-source orchestration platform Kestra has secured $25 million in a Series A funding round, led by RTP Global. Founded in Paris, the company has increased its enterprise revenue by 25 times.