SANTA CLARA: Orkes, an enterprise AI workflow orchestration platform, has secured $60 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by AVP, with Prosperity7 Ventures joining as a new investor. Existing backers Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US also participated. The latest raise comes after the company closed a $20 million Series A in 2024.
Orkes was founded by the engineers behind Conductor, an open-source workflow orchestration system originally built at Netflix in 2016. Over the years, Conductor has become the backbone of critical operations at some of the world’s largest companies, including Netflix, Tesla, LinkedIn, JP Morgan, Atlassian, Oracle, American Express, and GE Healthcare.
Orkes continues to maintain Conductor while building a full enterprise SaaS platform on top of it, designed to help large organizations manage and scale complex agentic AI workflows. The company is led by CEO Jeu George, CTO Viren Baraiya, and CPO Dilip Lukose.
The fresh capital will be used to scale the platform and expand its reach among enterprise AI teams globally.
The funding comes at a time when enterprises are struggling to move AI from testing to real-world production. A McKinsey study found that two-thirds of companies were still running AI in pilot mode as recently as 2025, while Gartner projects AI software spending will hit $450 billion in 2026. The gap between the two is largely an orchestration problem.
AI agents that work well in demos often break down in production, where retries, error handling, human approvals, and full visibility across every step are non-negotiable.
Orkes addresses this directly. Its platform combines structured workflow stages, AI-driven decisions, and human oversight into a single reliable execution model. It also allows enterprises to connect internal APIs as tools that agents can call safely, and converts natural language into deployable workflows within minutes.
Since its Series A, Orkes has tripled its customer base and built a global developer community of hundreds of thousands. The fresh $60 million will be used to expand its AI tooling and grow the platform across industries and regions.
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