Dagster Labs

About Dagster Labs

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Dagster Labs

All products by Dagster Labs reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

DagsterAI Data Tools

Python-native data orchestration built around data assets

From $10/mo8.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Dagster Labs

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Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Dagster Labs competes with, and how they differ.

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Apache Airflow

The incumbent open-source workflow orchestrator with a task-based DAG model, a larger legacy install base, and a broader but less integrated ecosystem compared to Dagster's software-defined-assets abstraction.

Airbyte, Inc.8.2/10

Focuses specifically on data ingestion/ELT connectors rather than end-to-end pipeline orchestration, often used alongside Dagster rather than as a full substitute.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fivetran, Inc.8.1/10

A fully managed, closed-source ELT connector service targeting less technical data teams, contrasting with Dagster's open-source, code-first orchestration framework requiring engineering ownership.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Mage7.1/10

A newer open-source data pipeline tool aimed at smaller teams and simpler ETL/ML workflows, with a lower-code notebook-style interface compared to Dagster's software-engineering-first orchestration model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Monte Carlo7.9/10

Primarily a data-observability and quality-monitoring platform rather than an orchestrator, competing more on data reliability tracking than pipeline execution and scheduling.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Dagster Labs's history, with sources.

1. Jul 13, 2026Acquisition

   Acquired by Prefect

   Prefect agreed to acquire Dagster Labs, combining the two leading post-Airflow orchestration platforms; Dagster and Dagster+ continue under their existing names, license and roadmap, with the combined company operating under the Prefect name from August 2026.

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2. Jan 10, 2024Acquisition

   Acquired the Retain.ai team

   Dagster Labs acquired the team behind Retain.ai, an AI-powered customer-success platform, in an acqui-hire that brought cofounder and CEO Eric Chernoff and colleagues into Dagster Labs.

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3. Aug 21, 2023Milestone

   Elementl, Inc. renamed Dagster Labs

   The company changed its legal and public name from Elementl to Dagster Labs, aligning the corporate name with its sole product, Dagster.

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4. May 24, 2023Funding

   Series B — $33M led by Georgian

   Elementl raised a $33M Series B led by Georgian, with new investors 8VC and Human Capital joining existing backers Sequoia, Index Ventures, Amplify and Slow; the round brought total funding to $48.8M.

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5. November 2022Milestone

   Pete Hunt named CEO; Nick Schrock moves to CTO

   Pete Hunt, who joined as head of engineering in February 2022, took over as CEO of Elementl while founder Nick Schrock moved into the CTO role.

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6. Aug 9, 2022Launch

   Dagster 1.0 and Dagster Cloud reach General Availability

   Dagster reached its 1.0 release and Dagster Cloud became generally available for self-serve signup, following a nine-month early access period that began in December 2021.

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7. Nov 16, 2021Funding

   Series A — $14M led by Index Ventures

   Elementl raised a $14M Series A led by Mike Volpi of Index Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Slow Ventures, Coatue, Amplify Partners and OSS Capital.

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8. 2018Founded

   Elementl founded by Nick Schrock

   Nick Schrock, a former Facebook engineer and co-creator of GraphQL, founded Elementl in San Francisco to build the Dagster data-orchestration project.

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