# Astronomer

> Astronomer is a New York-based data infrastructure company and the commercial force behind Apache Airflow, the open-source standard for data orchestration. Its flagship product, Astro, is a fully managed, cloud-native platform that lets data teams build, run, and observe data pipelines at scale, and its Astro Observe layer extends that into data operations and observability. Astronomer employs a large share of Airflow's core committers, serves 700+ enterprise customers, and raised a $93M Series D in May 2025 to power orchestration for enterprise AI workloads.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ry Walker (Co-Founder, former CEO), Greg Neiheisel (Co-Founder, former Chief Architect), Tim Brunk (Co-Founder), Pete DeJoy (Co-Founder, CEO (2025-))
- **Team size:** ~500 employees (global, remote-first with hubs in New York, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and San Jose)
- **Products:** Astro, Astro Observe, Astronomer Software, Astro Cosmos, Astronomer Registry & Astro CLI
- **Notable:** Commercial steward of Apache Airflow, the de facto open-source standard for data orchestration, Employs a large share of Apache Airflow's core committers and has steered its releases since 2018, Executed over 1 billion Airflow tasks in a single year on Astro

## Products & services

- **Astro** — Fully managed, cloud-native data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow. Lets teams build, run, scale, and observe data pipelines across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with features like autoscaling, CI/CD, role-based access, and deployment rollbacks.
- **Astro Observe** — A unified data observability layer that gives teams a single pane of glass over Airflow pipeline health and the wider data supply chain, with AI log summaries, an Insights Engine, data lineage, and Snowflake cost management.
- **Astronomer Software** — Self-managed deployment of the Astronomer platform for enterprises that need to run Airflow inside their own infrastructure.
- **Astro Cosmos** — Open-source package that simplifies orchestrating dbt (data build tool) transformations inside Airflow.
- **Astronomer Registry & Astro CLI** — A registry of Airflow providers, modules, and DAGs plus a command-line tool for local development and deployment of data pipelines.
- **Astronomer Academy** — Training and certification programs for Apache Airflow and the Astro platform.

## Achievements

- Commercial steward of Apache Airflow, the de facto open-source standard for data orchestration
- Employs a large share of Apache Airflow's core committers and has steered its releases since 2018
- Executed over 1 billion Airflow tasks in a single year on Astro
- Grew to 700+ enterprise customers across finance, healthcare, retail, and technology
- Raised a $93M Series D in May 2025 to power orchestration for enterprise AI
- Reached unicorn status (crossed $1B valuation) in 2022

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Raised $93M Series D led by Bain Capital Ventures with Salesforce Ventures and others, targeting unified orchestration for enterprise AI.
- **2025-02** — Announced general availability of Astro Observe, unifying data orchestration and observability with AI log summaries and an Insights Engine.
- **2025-07** — Co-founder Pete DeJoy became interim then acting CEO following the resignation of Andy Byron; company emphasized continuity of product and roadmap.

## Links

- Website: https://astronomer.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astronomer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/astronomerio
- GitHub: https://github.com/astronomer
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Astronomer
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/astronomerio

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Last updated: 2026-07-22