Observed Signal · Apr 27, 2026 · Funding · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Orkes Raises $60M to Scale AI Orchestration
Orkes, an agents and durable workflow orchestration platform founded by former Netflix engineers, raised $60 million in a Series B round led by AVP on April 27, 2026. New investor Prosperity7 Ventures joined existing backers Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US. Orkes says its platform and the open-source Conductor project power a large developer community (hundreds of thousands of developers, millions of installs) and over 3,000 enterprises, with customer growth accelerating since a $20M Series A in 2024. The company positions its stack — including Agentspan, agentic workflows, an MCP gateway, and prompt-to-workflow tooling — as infrastructure to move AI agents and production-grade AI workloads into enterprise production with governance, observability and scale.
Series B funding for an enterprise AI orchestration platform with growing production adoption; signals strengthening of production-grade AI infrastructure that could influence MarTech and enterprise AI operations.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Orkes raised $60 million in a Series B round led by AVP.
- Investors in the round include Prosperity7 Ventures (new), Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US.
- Orkes reports hundreds of thousands of developers, millions of installs, and over 3,000 global enterprise customers.
- Orkes maintains and extends the open-source Conductor project originally built at Netflix; Netflix increased its internal Conductor usage by 5x recently.
- Orkes product capabilities highlighted: Agentspan, Agentic Workflows, MCP Gateway, and Prompt-to-Workflow.
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