# Orkes

> Orkes is an enterprise workflow orchestration company built by the creators of Netflix's open-source Conductor engine. It offers a fully managed, cloud-hosted platform that lets developers build, run, and scale durable workflows across microservices, APIs, and - increasingly - AI agents, giving companies a reliable way to put long-running, event-driven, and agentic processes into production without reinventing the underlying orchestration plumbing.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Cupertino, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jeu George (Co-Founder & CEO), Viren Baraiya (Co-Founder & CTO), Boney Sekh (Co-Founder & Co-CTO), Dilip Lukose (Co-Founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~63 employees
- **Products:** Orkes Conductor / Orkes Cloud, Conductor OSS, Agentic Workflows, Agentspan, MCP Gateway
- **Notable:** Founding team built Netflix's Conductor, one of the most widely adopted open-source orchestration engines., Grew the open-source Conductor community to hundreds of thousands of developers with millions of installs., Raised a total of $98.6M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds.

## Products & services

- **Orkes Conductor / Orkes Cloud** — A fully managed, enterprise-grade version of the open-source Conductor orchestration engine, available across major cloud providers, with role-based access control, audit logs, observability, and mission-critical support.
- **Conductor OSS** — The open-source, durable workflow and microservices orchestration engine originally built at Netflix and now primarily maintained by Orkes; used to orchestrate microservices, AI agents, and long-running workflows at scale.
- **Agentic Workflows** — A capability that blends structured process stages with LLM-driven decisions, tool usage, and human-in-the-loop steps so enterprises can run AI agents reliably in production.
- **Agentspan** — An open-source durable runtime for AI agents that execute on Conductor's orchestration engine.
- **MCP Gateway** — A gateway that turns internal APIs into safe, consistent tools that agents and LLMs can use.

## Achievements

- Founding team built Netflix's Conductor, one of the most widely adopted open-source orchestration engines.
- Grew the open-source Conductor community to hundreds of thousands of developers with millions of installs.
- Raised a total of $98.6M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds.
- Tripled its enterprise customer base between its 2024 Series A and 2026 Series B.
- Adopted in production by Fortune 100 companies across finance, healthcare, media, and telecom.
- Positioned as an orchestration layer for putting enterprise AI agents into production reliably.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Raised $60M Series B led by AVP, with Prosperity7 Ventures and existing investors, to scale its AI workflow orchestration platform.
- **2026-04** — Reported tripling its customer base since its 2024 Series A and expanded focus toward reliable production deployment of AI agents.
- **2026-01** — Expanded agentic AI capabilities including Agentspan (durable AI agent runtime) and an MCP Gateway for exposing internal APIs to LLMs and agents.

## Links

- Website: https://orkes.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orkes-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/orkesio
- GitHub: https://github.com/orkes-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@orkes-io
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orkes.io

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Last updated: 2026-07-11