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Funding and backers

Total raised
$80M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$60M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
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Apr 24 Raised a round Venture round $60M Feb 20, 2024 Raised a round Series A $20M 2020 Founded
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2026 $60M — businesswire.com
Series A Feb 2024 $20M — businesswire.com
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Overview

Orkes is a platform for developers to build durable, distributed, event-driven applications, built on the open source orchestration engine Conductor. It lets teams scale applications to billions of workflows without managing failures, and its postings cover technical account managers, sales engineers, product management and demand generation. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States.

News

News The Hacker News 30 days ago
Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-58138 in Orkes Conductor, an unauthenticated RCE fixed in version 3.30.2.
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News Pulse 2.0 6 months ago
Orkes: $60 Million Raised For AI Orchestration Platform Scaling Enterprise Agent Deployments
Orkes, an agentic workflow orchestration platform built by the original architects of Netflix's microservices orchestration system, announced it has raised $60 million in Series B funding as demand accelerates for tools that enable reliable AI deployment
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
Orkes: $20 Million Raised To Scale Distributed Systems
Orkes - a company with a platform that offers the fastest way to scale distributed systems - announced it has raised $20 million in new funding. Nexus Venture Partners led this latest funding round with participation from existing investors Battery Ventur
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News CMSWire.com 2 years ago
Orkes Raises $20M in Fresh Funding as Its Application Orchestration Platform Grows in Popularity With Developers and Enterprises
VC Firms Nexus, Battery and Vertex bet on Orkes' thriving developer community and product roadmap as application orchestration becomes essential to modern software February 21, 2024 10:08 AM Eastern Standard Time CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orkes,
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Microservices orchestration platform Orkes raises $20M Series A
Back in 2016, Netflix open sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue
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News The New Stack 3 years ago
Orkes to Maintain Conductor Project as Netflix Steps Back
'This strategic decision … is essential for realigning our resources to better serve our business objectives with our internal Conductor fork,' Netflix said.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
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0
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1
Cupertino United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$80M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $60M Details
Series A 2024 $20M Details