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About Orkes
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$89.3M
Headquarters
Cupertino, California
Founded
2020
Overview
Orkes.io provides a platform to build, scale, and observe distributed systems using Orkes Conductor, which lets users model business logic like a whiteboard while coding components in their preferred language and framework. The product runs at scale with minimal setup and offers end-to-end observability across the distributed landscape. It can be deployed as fully managed clusters hosted by Orkes or installed in the client’s cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, or private cloud) and includes native access control, SSO, and audit logs for governance. Its goal is to help developers and enterprises efficiently build, modernize, and manage distributed applications with governance, scalability, and visibility, while supporting an active community of Conductor developers and architects.
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $60M Series B from AVP in April 2026 triples customers to 3,000 enterprises like Twilio and LinkedIn.
- Gartner forecasts $450B AI spending in 2026, fueling Orkes' production AI agent deployments.
- Naveo Commerce uses Orkes for real-time global inventory monitoring and disruption resolution.
What critics are saying
- Temporal.io steals Conductor users with Rust durability, triggering migrations in 6-12 months.
- Camunda 8.5 BPMN integration wins finance compliance audits over Orkes JSON in 12-18 months.
- Netflix's 2023 Conductor abandonment leaves OSS unpatched, forcing paid Orkes migrations now.
What makes Orkes unique
- Orkes Conductor, built by Netflix's original architects in 2016, adds enterprise AI orchestration to open-source workflows.
- Agentspan platform converts natural language prompts into editable workflows with built-in governance.
- Over 20 system tasks enable no-code HTTP, LLM, and event integrations without custom workers.
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Funding
Total Funding
$89.3M
Above
Industry Average
Funded Over
3 Rounds
Battery VenturesIndustry standards
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Unlimited Paid Time Off
Professional Development Budget
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6 month growth
↑ 2%1 year growth
↑ 7%2 year growth
↑ 8%Abhishek Sharma, Nexus Managing Director, who led the investment, will join Orkes' board.
Orkes Platform makes it easy for developers to build higly reliable, distributed stateful applications
Nexus Venture Partners, a US- and India-based venture capital major, has led a $25 million funding round in Orkes, an orchestration-focussed DevOps (developer operations) startup.
Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies that rely on it, the creators of Conductor had previously left the company to launch Orkes, a startup that provides an enterprise-grade microservices platform based on the open-source project. Orkes took over the maintenance of Conductor for the time being and today the company announced that it has now raised a $20 million Series A on top of its $9.3 million seed round in 2022. The new round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.The team built Conductor at Netflix in 2015, in part to help the development teams there keep pace with the rapid growth of the company and its needs. As Orkes co-CTO Viren Baraiya told me, the project quickly became popular within Netflix. “One of the things that we realized very quickly was that there is no kind of secret sauce here for Netflix
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About Orkes
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$89.3M
Headquarters
Cupertino, California
Founded
2020
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