Kestra, a French open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, today announced a €21 million ($25 million) Series A funding round to accelerate the launch of Kestra 2.0 and expand go-to-market operations across North America and Europe.
The round was led by RTP Global, with continued participation from Alven, ISAI and Axeleo – bringing their total funding to €31 million ($36 million).
“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,” says Emmanuel Darras, CEO and co-founder of Kestra.
Kestra’s Series A sits within a broader 2025–2026 funding pattern across workflow automation, orchestration and adjacent AI infrastructure:
- Tines in Dublin raised €120.7 million in February 2025 to accelerate product innovation and enterprise-grade security
- Pelico in Paris raised €34.7 million in June 2025 to expand its North American footprint and advance GenAI in supply-chain orchestration
- Opper AI in Stockholm raised €2.5 million in July 2025 to help developers move AI features into production
- Contents in Milan secured €5.9 million in February 2026 for its AI workflow platform and Middle East expansion
- Cognee in Berlin raised €7.5 million later that month to develop enterprise-grade memory technology for AI systems
- Evervault raised €21 million in March 2026 to advance encrypted data orchestration.
Taken together, those comparable announcements amount to over €192 million, or about €213 million including Kestra, indicating that investors have continued to back software layers that co-ordinate complex enterprise processes across data, AI and infrastructure.
“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 at RTP Global.
Founded in 2021 by Emmanuel Darras and Ludovic Dehon, Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform redefining how enterprises automate complex systems. The platform unifies data pipelines, AI workflows, infrastructure automation and business processes into a single orchestration control plane designed for modern distributed architectures.
The platform is trusted by 30,000+ organisations worldwide – including Bloomberg, Toyota, BHP, Crédit Agricole, JPMorgan Chase, Apple, and Xiaomi.
Since its Seed round 18 months ago, Kestra has reportedly grown enterprise revenue 25× and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025, up 20× year over year.
According to comments by the company, enterprise automation has reached a breaking point. Organisations run workflows across cloud and on-prem infrastructure, AI agents, real-time data pipelines and microservices, stitched together with schedulers and scripts never designed for today’s complexity.
This results in silent failures, lengthy compliance reviews and undocumented business-critical logic. Kestra aims to address this with a unified orchestration control plane: declarative by design, extensible across 1,200+ plugins, and built for hybrid and air-gapped environments.
The funding will accelerate four priorities:
- Kestra 2.0: A new distributed execution engine built for mission-critical reliability at scale, with real-time observability and native agentic orchestration.
- Kestra Cloud: A fully managed SaaS experience with usage-based pricing, empowering teams that want to move fast without self-hosting.
- Go-to-market expansion: Deepen Kestra’s presence in North America and Europe, including growth across field engineering, partnerships and customer success.
- Open-source investment: Continued focus on developer experience, expanding the plugin ecosystem and strengthening the path from experimentation to enterprise deployment.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/03/paris-based-kestra-lands-e21-million-series-a-for-orchestration-platform-expansion/
