Orkes
Category: AI Infrastructure
A battle-tested orchestration platform for building and scaling reliable enterprise AI agents and workflows. Orkes was founded in 2021. The company is led by Jeu George. Based in San Francisco Bay Area. Team size: 51-100. Total funding raised: $89.3 million. Latest round: $20 million Series A round. Key investors include AVP, Prosperity7 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Vertex Ventures US.
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Team size
- 51-100
- Total funding
- $89.3 million
Value proposition
Orkes provides a production-grade orchestration platform with built-in reliability to help enterprises confidently build and scale AI agents and complex workflows.
Products and solutions
Orkes Platform, Orkes Agentic Workflows, Orkes Cloud, Orkes Conductor
Target customer
Enterprise developers and organizations building AI-powered applications.
Industries served
Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Shipping and Logistics, Software
Technology advantage
Rooted in the open-source Conductor project originally developed at Netflix.
How they differentiate
Rooted in the battle-tested, open-source Conductor project from Netflix, offering a unique blend of business orchestration and developer agility with built-in reliability, security, and human-in-the-loop controls for AI agentic workflows.
Main competitors
Camunda, Workato
Key partnerships
Naveo Commerce (strategic partnership for order/warehouse management), Netflix (collaboration on open-source Conductor)
Notable customers
Foxtel, UWM, Collective, Naveo Commerce, Freshworks, Tafi
Major milestones
Raised $20M Series A in February 2024, Expanded product offering to include human tasks and Gen AI application development tools, Raised $60M Series B in 2026
Market positioning
A foundational platform for rapidly building and modernizing enterprise-grade applications, specializing in AI agent orchestration.
About Jeu George
Former architect at Netflix and Uber; founding member of Netflix's open-source Conductor project.
Official website: https://orkes.io