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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | January 2020 |
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| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
Number of employees | 158 (2025) |
| Website | airbyte |
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that enables organizations to collect and synchronize data from a variety of sources into destinations such as data warehouses, data lakes, or databases. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers multiple deployment options, including cloud-based, on-premises, and hybrid environments for data teams.[1][2]
History
[edit]Airbyte was founded in January 2020 in San Francisco, California, by Michel Tricot and John Lafleur.[3]
In March 2021, Airbyte raised a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Accel.[4]
In May 2021, the company announced a $26 million Series A round led by Benchmark, with participation from 8VC, Accel, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. By this point, the platform offered 70 certified connectors and had approximately 1,200 community members.[5]
In December 2021, Airbyte raised $150 million in a Series B round co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue Management, achieving a valuation of $1.5 billion and unicorn status.[6][7]
In April 2022, Airbyte acquired Grouparoo, an open-source reverse ETL startup, and launched Airbyte Cloud, a fully managed, hosted version of the data integration platform.[8]
In September 2024, the company released Airbyte 1.0, which introduced AI-powered connector generation, GraphQL support, and Self-Managed Enterprise capabilities. By this time, Airbyte reported having 7,000 enterprise customers and more than 170,000 platform deployments.[9]
In February 2025, the company became the first open-source data movement platform to shift from volume-based to capacity-based pricing.[10]
In September 2025, Airbyte launched version 2.0, which introduced Enterprise Flex, allowing hybrid deployments, and Data Activation, which lets users push insights from their destinations into business tools.[1][11]
In October 2025, Airbyte was named a leader by Snowflake's modern marketing data report for the second year in a row.[12]
Adoption
[edit]As of 2025, Airbyte's open-source community has grown to over 25,000 members, serving more than 7,000 paying customers.[13][14]
See also
[edit]- Extract, transform, load (ETL)
- Extract, load, transform (ELT)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Simone, Stephanie (2025-10-02). "Airbyte Enterprise Flex Gives Customers Full Sovereignty and Control of Their Data". Database Trends and Applications. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ "Report: Airbyte Business Breakdown & Founding Story | Contrary Research". research.contrary.com. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (2021-12-20). "Airbyte: Open-source ETL startup goes from zero to unicorn in 2 years". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Vizard, Michael (2021-03-02). "ETL company Airbyte raises $5.2M to integrate open source data". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2025-08-23. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Miller, Ron (2021-05-25). "Airbyte announces $26M Series A for open-source data connector platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Anderson, Dan (2022-01-05). "Airbyte: $150 Million Series B Funding And $1.5 Billion Valuation". Pulse 2.0. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Cai, Kenrick. "Data Startup Airbyte Is Set To Become A Unicorn, Intensifying Showdown With Rival Company Fivetran". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2022-04-07). "Airbyte acquires reverse ETL service Grouparoo". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2024-09-24). "Data platform Airbyte can now create API connectors by reading the docs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ Blanchard, Sydney (2025-02-13). "Airbyte Introduces Capacity-Based Pricing for Affordable Data Movement". Database Trends and Applications. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ^ Watch, Open Source. "Airbyte Enterprise Flex enables you to keep your AI data safe". Open Source Watch. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
- ^ "Airbyte Named Leader in Snowflake Modern Marketing Report". MarTech Cube - Marketing Technology news and Martech Interviews. 2025-10-01. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ^ Chauhan, Monika (2025-09-25). "Airbyte Launches Enterprise Flex to Tackle Data Sovereignty and AI Readiness - TFiR". tfir.io. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ^ "New Airbyte Enterprise Flex Provides Customers Full Sovereignty and Control of Data for AI and Analytics". Morningstar, Inc. 2025-09-24. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
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