Prefect
prefect.io
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$108.9M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$65.3M
Venture round · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Hiring now
8
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Bessemer Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
55/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 14
Raised a round Venture round $65.3M · SEC Form D
Jul 13
Acquisition Prefect Acquires Dagster · prefect.io
Apr 8
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Prefab – A generative UI framework for Python
Jun 10, 2021
Raised a round Series B $32M · led by Tiger Global Management · Nasdaq
Nov 20, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $11.6M · SEC Form D
Dec 10, 2019
Took on debt financing $2.5M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2026 | $65.3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series B | Jun 2021 | $32M | Tiger Global Management lead, Bessemer Venture Partners, Positive Sum | Nasdaq |
| Venture round | Nov 2020 | $11.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Debt Financing | Dec 2019 | $2.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Prefect Technologies, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jeremiah LowinExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Prefect is a data workflow orchestration and dataflow automation platform provider. The company delivers a Python-native open-source orchestration framework alongside Prefect Cloud, a managed control plane for enterprise-grade workflow observability and governance. Its product suite includes automated flow scheduling, dynamic task retries, event-driven execution triggers, and ControlFlow for building agentic AI applications.
News
Finding Domains Is Simple With Gemini and Antigravity
How to find an available domain name with AI: describe it to a terminal agent and let Gemini check every candidate against a live registry. No more guessing.
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Prefect Acquiring Dagster Labs
Prefect announced that it has agreed to acquire Dagster Labs, the creator of the Dagster orchestrator. The transaction brings together two major modern workflow orchestration platforms that emerged as successors to Apache Airflow.
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Prefect Acquires Dagster
Prefect acquires Dagster Labs, bringing together two leading orchestration products for the AI era. Dagster continues under its existing name and open-source license, fully supported.
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Decomposed Durability for Data Workflows
Prefect's approach to durable execution decouples results from workflow identity, enabling cross-workflow caching and exactly-once semantics through composable primitives.
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Rebuilding Our Website for the Agent Era
How we migrated from a CMS to agent-native content operations: 25M tokens, 290 commits, and a category change in how fast we can ship.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Prefect over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
50
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
SQL25%
Go19%
C++13%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster75%
Flink13%
OpenTelemetry6%
Databases
ClickHouse13%
DuckDB13%
Presto13%
Trino13%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes25%
AWS19%
Spark13%
Azure13%
AI & ML
Claude25%
LLM19%
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50 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$242k
Typical range
$176k – $309k
Open positions
7
6
Jobs
Senior
66.7%
Staff
16.7%
Architect
16.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $232k | $222k – $301k |
| Staff | 1 | $309k | $309k |
| Architect | 1 | $276k | $276k |
Highest paying role
Staff Platform Engineer
$309k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Prefect
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
People
Jeremiah Lowin
Executive Officer, Director
Patrick OShaughnessy
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
8
2 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
36 days
faster than 35% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
29%
Product
14%
Data Science
7% ▲
DevOps
7% ▲
Analytics
7% ▲
Finance
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Service Mesh to stack
Sep 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS Step Functions to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Sep 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Sep 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Washington
United States
HQ
Jobs
Equity • In office • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
Prefect
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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$128k – $176k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
Prefect
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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$191k – $276k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
Prefect
AI Agents
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$233k – $301k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
Prefect
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
IAM
AWS Step Functions
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$154k – $222k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
AI Agents
Machine Learning
Analytics
Looker
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$214k – $309k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
Prefect
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Self-Healing
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$172k – $242k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
Python
Model Context Protocol
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
Function Calling
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
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