In The News
News, updates, and press about the world's leading workflow orchestration platform.
Company News
April 23, 2026
Orkes Raises $60M as Developers Increasingly Use Its Platform to Deploy AI Confidently in Production
The product serves a vast global developer community with millions of installs and over 3,000 global enterprises.
April 3, 2026
Open sourcing Agentspan
Agentspan is a durable runtime for AI agents and an open-source SDK to build, run, and observe agents.
February 21, 2024
Orkes has raised a $20M Series A to power our next phase of growth
Orkes’ Series A funding will power the next phase of growth for Conductor as the development platform of choice.
December 13, 2023
Evolving the Conductor Open Source and the Conductor Community
Orkes will take stewardship of Conductor OSS in collaboration with the community and will remain committed to a developer-first experience.
November 02, 2023
Harness the Power of Gen AI in Your Applications - Introducing AI Orchestration and Human Tasks in Orkes Conductor
Seamlessly integrate LLM capabilities and vector databases into applications using AI orchestration and native prompt engineering support.
Industry Coverage
April 28, 2026
Orkes raises $60M as enterprise software moves into production
April 23, 2026
Orkes Raises $60M in Series B Funding
April 23, 2026
Exclusive: Orkes raises $60M for more reliable AI workloads
February 22, 2024
Nexus Venture Partners leads $20 million funding at DevOps startup Orkes
December 13, 2023
Orkes forks Conductor as Netflix abandons the open source project
November 13, 2023
With Conductor, Orkes Tackles LLM Orchestration Workflows
November 8, 2023
Nexus Venture Partners leads $20 million funding at DevOps startup Orkes
February 28, 2022
Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix's open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M
Backstory and Timeline
Conductor was built at Netflix to power its legendary growth and was open-sourced in 2016. Since then, it has seen widespread adoption across the industry, with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s using it to run mission-critical workflows. Its usage spans a broad set of industries, including financial services, shipping and logistics, telecommunications, software, and healthcare.
Since its inception, the founding team behind Conductor went on to build Orkes—an enterprise-grade cloud service that abstracts away the operational complexity of Conductor, enabling developers to focus on building reliable applications that scale effortlessly.
As AI adoption accelerates, Orkes has evolved into an agentic orchestration platform , enabling developers to build, deploy, and scale AI applications confidently in production. The platform supports complex workflows across AI agents, human-in-the-loop processes, and traditional microservices.
In 2026, Orkes raised $60 million in funding , reflecting strong momentum as developers increasingly rely on the platform to power production-grade AI and workflow systems.
Today, Orkes continues to expand its platform with capabilities such as human task orchestration, GenAI application development tools, and Agentspan — a durable runtime designed to orchestrate and manage AI agents at scale, bringing reliability, observability, and structure to increasingly complex, multi-agent workflows.
- 2016
Netflix Conductor is built as an Open Source Project
- 2020
Workflow orchestration platform Orkes is launched
- 2022
Orkes comes out of stealth and raises $9.3M of funding
- 2023
Orkes releases Generative AI capabilities
- 2023
Orkes forks Conductor from Netflix and creates a new repo - Conductor OSS
- 2024
$20M Series A funding
- 2026
$60M raise