Airbyte continues to grow as open source data integration platform

Airbyte, the open source data integration platform, grew deployments per month by 6x, doubled GitHub stars, and raised more than US$ 181 million in funding in 2021. The company has also announced an integration with Dagster, the data orchestration platform, as Airbyte’s technology becomes the industry standard for data integration.

“The total funding in 2021 will allow us to reach our 2022 goals much quicker: expanding our team from 30 people today to over 200 members; growing from 16,000 deployments today to 100,000; and increasing from 150 connectors currently to 500 by the end of the year,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. “The integration with Dagster brings additional productivity to users, especially in scaling their data pipelines.”

Dagster is an orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. It enables practitioners to define jobs in terms of the data flow, and with a fast develop and test workflow. Dagster unifies disparate data tools into a cohesive data platform, making practitioners dramatically more productive, scaling from ‘single-player-mode’ to large organisations, and providing context for all stakeholders.

Airbyte’s open source data integration solves two problems.

First, companies always have to build and maintain data connectors on their own because most not-sopopular ‘long tail’ data connectors are not supported by closed-source ELT technologies. Second, data teams often have to do custom work around pre-built connectors to make them work within their unique data infrastructure.