Kestra Technologies

About Kestra Technologies

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Kestra Technologies

All products by Kestra Technologies reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

KestraAI Workflow Automation

Open-source workflow orchestration for engineers and data teams

Free7.4/10

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Competitive Landscape

Who Kestra Technologies competes with, and how they differ.

Prefect7.9/10

Prefect targets the same Python-native data-orchestration niche with a hybrid execution model; Kestra differentiates with a declarative YAML-first design and a much larger plugin ecosystem spanning non-data workflows.

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Apache Airflow / Astronomer

Airflow is the incumbent DAG-based scheduler with the largest install base; Kestra positions against its Python-only, code-heavy DAG authoring with declarative YAML and a event-driven execution engine.

Dagster8.2/10

Dagster emphasizes software-defined assets and data-lineage-first orchestration for data teams; Kestra is broader, covering infrastructure and business-process automation as well as data pipelines.

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Temporal

Temporal is a developer-facing durable-execution engine for building reliable distributed applications in code; Kestra instead targets ops/platform teams who want to define and observe workflows declaratively without writing a client SDK.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Kestra Technologies's history, with sources.

1. Mar 31, 2026Funding

   Series A — $25M led by RTP Global

   Kestra raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with Alven, ISAI and Axeleo returning, bringing total funding to $36M. Proceeds fund Kestra 2.0 and a managed Kestra Cloud offering.

   prnewswire.com
2. Sep 23, 2024Funding

   Seed round — $8M led by Alven

   Kestra raised an $8M seed round led by Alven, joined by existing investors ISAI and Axeleo, less than a year after its pre-seed.

   techcrunch.com
3. Oct 4, 2023Funding

   Pre-seed round — $3M co-led by ISAI and Axeleo Capital

   Kestra raised a $3M pre-seed round co-led by ISAI and Axeleo Capital, with angel investors including Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Collibra's Stan Christiaens.

   techcrunch.com
4. 2021Founded

   Founded by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon

   Kestra Technologies was founded in Paris by Emmanuel Darras (founder of Ankama) and Ludovic Dehon (creator of open-source akHQ.io) to build an open-source orchestration platform.

   techcrunch.com