Orkes has raised $60 million in fresh capital as adoption of its platform accelerates among developers building and deploying AI applications in production. AVP led the Series B round for Orkes, with participation from new investor Prosperity7 Ventures, alongside existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US.
$60M Series B led by AVP with Prosperity7 Ventures participation.
Tripled customer base since $20M Series A in 2024.
Global community of hundreds of thousands of developers with millions of installs.
Customers include United Wholesale Mortgage, Quest Diagnostics, Twilio, LinkedIn, and Woodside Energy.
Open-source Conductor project actively maintained by Orkes.
Netflix's Conductor usage increased by 5x in recent months.
2026 marks a pivotal year for AI, as enterprises shift from experimentation to proving ROI. Gartner projects AI software spending will reach $450 billion in 2026, yet McKinsey found that two-thirds of companies were still in pilot mode in 2025. Developers have lacked the enterprise-grade orchestration, observability, and security to move AI workloads into production safely. Orkes' underlying open-source technology, Conductor, was originally built at Netflix to accelerate its hypergrowth to global scale, and continues to support Netflix today. Orkes has spent the past four years extending that battle-tested foundation to AI and agentic systems. Developers can run agents confidently in production through Orkes' execution layer, with strong built-in governance and reliability, high observability into AI actions, and scalable runtime.
Today, developers use Orkes to build, orchestrate, and operate AI agents and mission-critical workflows in production. Key capabilities include:
Agentspan: An open-source durable runtime for AI agents. Agents built on Agentspan execute on Conductor's proven orchestration engine, giving them durability, observability, and scale.
Agentic Workflows: Blend structured process stages with LLM-driven decisions, tool usage and human-in-the-loop capabilities in a highly durable execution model.
MCP Gateway: Turn internal APIs into safe, consistent tools that agents and LLMs can use right away.
Prompt-to-Workflow: Turn natural language into a starter workflow that can be reviewed, edited, and shipped fast.
Since Orkes launched its first agentic orchestration tools in 2023, developers have successfully deployed AI in production and it has become the fastest adopted capability within the Orkes platform.
Naveo Commerce uses Orkes to power dynamic fulfillment and adaptive orchestration across a volatile global supply chain, enabling AI agents to autonomously monitor inventory, detect disruptions, and resolve issues in real time. Shaun Clements, principal engineer at Woodside Energy, stated: "Orkes' platform brings a richness of engineering capability, and ease at which we are able to outsource state machine processing. To complement a great platform, we've been really spoilt with Orkes' team helping us make the re-platform/transition seamless."
As Jeu George, co-founder and CEO of Orkes, stated: "Developers need orchestration, controls, and visibility to run advanced AI and agentic systems with confidence. Orkes provides that assurance so developers' applications and agents behave predictably at scale, even as they push the boundaries of what AI can do. The trust we're seeing from both the developer community and global enterprises reinforces the role Orkes plays as the missing orchestration layer that makes AI highly reliable, observable, and governable."
Alex Scherbakovsky, general partner at AVP, added: "Orkes gives developers the confidence to deploy AI in production with the reliability, control, and scale they expect, and global enterprises rely on the platform for mission-critical operations. That combination of deep technical credibility and real-world adoption is exactly what we look for at AVP."
Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director at Prosperity7 Ventures US, said: "Orkes is helping define what production-grade AI orchestration looks like. Its platform gives enterprises a single, governed engine to coordinate LLMs, tools, microservices, and human review, so AI can safely sit in the middle of mission-critical workflows."
Jamie Goldring, CEO of Naveo Commerce, stated: "Commerce is entering a new era. At Naveo, we see agentic orchestration not as incremental innovation but as a structural leap forward — enabling enterprises to adapt in real time, unlock new revenue models, and achieve resilience at scale. Our partnership with Orkes will redefine how order and warehouse management is delivered for the next decade."
About Orkes
Orkes is a modern agentic orchestration platform for automating and scaling complex business processes across agentic AI, human-in-the-loop tasks, and microservices. We empower teams to build AI agents, design workflows, and orchestrate APIs with enterprise-grade security, reliability, and deep observability. Trusted at Netflix scale with open-source roots, Orkes is built for reliability and scale from the ground up.
About AVP
AVP is an independent global investment platform focused on high-growth technology companies, ranging from deep tech to tech-enabled, across Europe and North America. The firm manages more than €2.5 billion in assets across venture and growth strategies. Since its establishment in 2016, AVP has invested in more than 60 technology companies.
About Prosperity7
Prosperity7 Ventures (P7) is the diversified venturing fund of Aramco Ventures, the venturing arm of Aramco, a world's leading integrated energy and chemicals company. P7 invests globally with a long-term view in breakthrough technologies and transformational business models that will bring prosperity and positive impact on a vast scale.
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