About AstronomerĪstronomer is the developer of a modern data orchestration platform, powered by Apache Airflow™, that enables data teams to increase the availability of trusted data. Learn more about Astronomer’s data orchestration platform here. To meet its growing customer needs, Astronomer has increased its headcount 10x since 2020, now exceeding 250 global employees, with hubs in Cincinnati, New York, San Francisco and San Jose, CA. Astronomer offers unmatched scalability and multi-cloud deployments. As validation of Astronomer’s power, Gartner recognized Astronomer as a Cool Vendor in Data for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 2021.Īstronomer’s data orchestration platform enables entire data teams to build faster together by accelerating the development of data pipelines with tools that allow them to focus on code that impacts the business. One Fortune 10 customer leveraged Astronomer to increase its sales by $300 million, and Astronomer is used by nine of the world’s top 12 gaming companies and three of the top 10 Wall Street banks. Astronomer’s global customers range from innovative startups to the world’s largest big-box retailers. Combining the orchestration capabilities of Airflow with the observability offered by OpenLineage will allow Astronomer to provide value across the modern data stack, transforming the way organizations work with data.”ĭemand for Astronomer is skyrocketing as more teams look to make sense of their data universe and unlock the value of data orchestration. “We share this mission with Astronomer, and joining forces will accelerate us both and provide an unparalleled experience for Airflow users. “Our mission at Datakin is to help organizations build and manage amazing data ecosystems,” said Laurent Paris, CEO of Datakin and SVP of Research & Development at Astronomer. Through its acquisition of Datakin, Astronomer will enable data teams to unlock operational lineage as a native component of their orchestration platform. Astronomer engineers represent 16 of the top 25 all-time contributors to Airflow and have been pivotal in driving the direction of Airflow since 2018. Hundreds of thousands of data teams use Airflow with 12 million monthly downloads, up from 180,000 in 2018. “We are looking forward to partnering with the Astronomer team as they scale up this profound journey.”Īstronomer helps teams unlock the full benefits of data orchestration through Airflow, an open-source platform for data engineering pipelines that has emerged as the de facto standard to express data flows as code. Apache Airflow, driven by the Astronomer team, has become the generational platform for modern orchestration,” said George Mathew, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “As the modern data stack has arrived at scale, we now need an orchestration experience to support today’s sophisticated, high-velocity data pipelines. We are excited to soon unveil what’s next from our team, fueled by our Series C and the incredible support of our investors.” By integrating Datakin’s intuitive data lineage features with Astronomer, our customers are able to build faster, run with confidence and reduce their operational risks. “At the same time, data teams must be able to trust their data to effectively extract its value. “As companies of all sizes struggle to make sense of their data, data orchestration has become a competitive necessity,” said Joe Otto, CEO of Astronomer. Astronomer will also use the capital to grow its world-class Engineering and Customer Success teams, accelerate the growth of its Apache Airflow-powered data orchestration platform and scale its go-to-market operations. The funding primed Astronomer to acquire Datakin, the data operations tool from the founders of the OpenLineage and Marquez open-source projects. Morgan, K5 Global, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock and Sierra Ventures. SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, March 23, 2022: Astronomer, developer of a modern data orchestration platform powered by Apache® Airflow™, today announced that it has raised $213 million in a Series C round, led by global growth equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, with participation by Meritech Capital, Salesforce Ventures, J.P.
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