# Mage

> Mage is a San Francisco Bay Area software company that builds an open-source and enterprise data pipeline platform for integrating, transforming, and orchestrating data. Founded in 2020 by former Airbnb engineer Tommy Dang, Mage offers a notebook-style, developer-friendly alternative to Apache Airflow, letting teams build batch and streaming pipelines in Python, SQL, and R. Its managed Mage Pro tier adds enterprise orchestration, collaboration, and AI-assisted authoring that generates, debugs, and refactors pipeline code from natural language.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founders:** Tommy Dang (Co-Founder & CEO), Xiaoyou Wang (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~82 employees (per Apollo data)
- **Products:** Mage (Open Source), Mage Pro, Mage Pro AI Blocks / mage-agent
- **Notable:** 8,800+ GitHub stars and ~1,000 forks on the open-source project, Raised $11.8M total across seed and seed-extension rounds, Backed by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund) and notable operator-angels including Unity CEO John Riccitiello and Behance founder Scott Belsky

## Products & services

- **Mage (Open Source)** — Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hosted development environment for building modular batch and streaming data pipelines in Python, SQL, and R, with a notebook-style UI, prebuilt connectors, native dbt support, and visual debugging. Installable via Docker, pip, or conda.
- **Mage Pro** — Fully managed, scalable enterprise tier that handles provisioning, upgrades, and uptime, and adds SSO/RBAC security, team workspaces, and an AI assistant that generates, debugs, and refactors pipeline code from natural language.
- **Mage Pro AI Blocks / mage-agent** — AI-driven, block-based authoring plus a mage-agent CLI and MCP support that let AI coding tools and agents write, fix, and monitor pipelines.

## Achievements

- 8,800+ GitHub stars and ~1,000 forks on the open-source project
- Raised $11.8M total across seed and seed-extension rounds
- Backed by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund) and notable operator-angels including Unity CEO John Riccitiello and Behance founder Scott Belsky
- Featured by TechCrunch in 2021 with the 'Stripe for AI' framing
- Recognized in 2025-2026 industry comparisons as a leading Airflow alternative

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Published a demo of Mage Pro AI Blocks automating data analysis and transformation ('NYC Insights').
- **2025** — Shipped mage-agent CLI and MCP support so AI coding tools and agents can write, fix, and monitor pipelines.
- **2024** — Expanded Mage Pro as a managed, AI-assisted enterprise orchestration platform.
- **2023-03** — Raised a $5.5M seed extension led by existing investor group.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mage.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magetech
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mage_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/mage-ai/mage-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mage_ai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/mageai/

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Last updated: 2026-07-14