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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2015 [1] |
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| Headquarters | |
| Website | astronomer |
Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a data platform powered by Apache Airflow. Astro enables data teams to build, run, observe, and manage data pipelines for data, analytics, and AI-driven applications. [5] [6] The company reached unicorn status in 2022. [7] By 2025 the company's valuation reached $1.5 billion and had approximately 350 employees. [8]
Astronomer's cofounders are Paola Peraza Calderon, Greg Neiheisel, Ry Walker, [9] [10] Pete DeJoy, and Viraj Parekh. [2]
In 2022, Astronomer had approximately 250 employees with offices in Cincinnati, New York, San Francisco, and San Jose. [11]
The company raised $213 million in Series C funding and acquired the data operations tool Datakin in 2022. [11] The company secured $93 million in a Series D funding round in 2025. [12]
Astronomer former and current leadership has been featured on NYSE-TV [13] [14] and The Wall Street Journal [15] for previous innovations. [16] Current CTO Julian LaNeve, along with a team, won the Citadel Data Open Championship grand prize in 2021. [17]
In July 2025, CEO Andy Byron resigned a couple of days after being displayed on a jumbotron in an embrace with the company's chief people officer, Kristin Cabot, at a Coldplay concert. [18] A week later, Cabot also resigned. [19] Pete DeJoy, one of the co-founders of the company, was tapped to lead the company on an interim basis. [18] In the wake of the scandal, the company hired Gwyneth Paltrow, ex-wife of Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin, to produce a promotional video for the company. [20]