# Airbyte

> Airbyte is a San Francisco data infrastructure company that standardizes the unglamorous work of moving information between databases, SaaS applications, warehouses, lakes, vector stores and AI systems. Its wager is that an extensible connector framework, a large contributor community and flexible cloud, self-managed and hybrid deployments can cover the long tail of integrations more effectively than closed catalogs or one-off scripts. The company now sells managed data movement and enterprise controls while extending the same connector foundation into a context and action layer for AI agents.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Michel Tricot (CEO and Co-Founder), Jean Lafleur (COO and Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 150 employees based on the supplied company-data estimate.
- **Products:** Airbyte Open Source / Core, Airbyte Cloud, Airbyte Connector Builder and Marketplace, PyAirbyte, API and Terraform Provider, Airbyte Embedded
- **Notable:** Reached a $1.5 billion valuation with a $150 million Series B in December 2021, after three announced financing rounds that year., Built a catalog the company now reports at more than 600 data replication connectors plus more than 50 agent connectors., Grew the public GitHub repository beyond 20,000 stars and the company-reported community to roughly 27,000 members.

## Products & services

- **Airbyte Open Source / Core** — A free, self-managed data movement platform with customizable connectors, scheduling, APIs and deployment inside a user's own infrastructure.
- **Airbyte Cloud** — The fully managed version of Airbyte for teams that prefer Airbyte to host and operate their data pipelines.
- **Airbyte Connector Builder and Marketplace** — Low-code, no-code and AI-assisted tooling for creating, testing and sharing source connectors against a common protocol.
- **PyAirbyte, API and Terraform Provider** — Code-first interfaces for running connectors in Python, automating connections and managing Airbyte as infrastructure.
- **Airbyte Embedded** — Managed connector infrastructure that software companies can embed so their own customers can authenticate sources and move data into the product.
- **Airbyte Enterprise Flex** — A hybrid offering that separates the managed control plane from data movement inside the customer's security boundary for sovereignty and compliance.
- **Airbyte 2.0** — A unified data movement, transformation, orchestration and activation platform positioned for analytics, machine learning and AI workloads.
- **Airbyte Agents** — An early context and action layer with a Context Store, Agent Connectors, MCP, Python SDK, CLI and controlled writes for production AI agents.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1.5 billion valuation with a $150 million Series B in December 2021, after three announced financing rounds that year.
- Built a catalog the company now reports at more than 600 data replication connectors plus more than 50 agent connectors.
- Grew the public GitHub repository beyond 20,000 stars and the company-reported community to roughly 27,000 members.
- Released Airbyte 1.0 in September 2024 with a connector marketplace, AI-assisted connector creation and self-managed enterprise capabilities.
- Acquired open-source reverse ETL company Grouparoo in 2022 and expanded from ingestion toward activation.
- Launched Airbyte 2.0 and Enterprise Flex in September 2025, broadening the platform around AI-readiness and data sovereignty.
- Launched Airbyte Agents in May 2026 as a context and action layer for production agents.
- Says 7,000 companies use Airbyte and 20% of the Fortune 500 use it; both figures are company-reported.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Databricks Destination 4.0 added direct loading, Speed Mode, Avro staging and granular schema evolution; Airbyte reports up to 4.5x faster syncs on larger datasets.
- **2026-08** — Entity Policies introduced granular controls over which business entities Airbyte Agents may access.
- **2026-08** — Semantic search expanded to Google Drive and Granola, and new HubSpot and LinkedIn Ads agent connectors were announced.
- **2026-07** — Airbyte added workspaces, more write capabilities and guidance for approval gates and rate-limit-aware agent orchestration.
- **2026-06** — The company detailed its Context Store and released an agent-focused CLI over its connector and context platform.
- **2026-05** — Airbyte Agents launched with a Context Store, MCP, Python SDK, CLI, automations preview and 50 production-ready agent connectors.
- **2025-09** — Airbyte 2.0 and Enterprise Flex launched, adding a broader AI-ready platform and hybrid control-plane/data-plane deployment.

## Links

- Website: https://airbyte.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbytehq/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AirbyteHQ
- GitHub: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_JWEFzs1_INqdhIO3kmrw
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/AirbyteHQ

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Last updated: 2026-08-22