Prefect is a Transformation & Orchestration company founded in 2018 and based in Washington, United States. It has raised $43.5M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2021.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2021 | Series B | $32M | — | Tiger Global |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Series A | $11.5M | — | Positive Sum |
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A managed workflow orchestration platform for building, running, and monitoring Python-native data pipelines and data workflows at scale. Targets data engineers and ML teams who want code-first pipeline management with built-in observability. Features automated scheduling, managed automations, infrastructure abstraction, and a rich UI for monitoring flow runs, task states, and artifacts.
The Apache-licensed core orchestration engine enabling dynamic, Pythonic workflow construction without requiring a YAML-based DAG framework. Workflows are defined as regular Python functions decorated with @flow and @task, enabling native Python testing patterns, branching, and parameterization. Widely adopted as an alternative to Apache Airflow for teams preferring imperative workflow definitions over static DAG graphs.
A purpose-built integration for orchestrating dbt projects within Prefect workflows, supporting per-model retries, parallel dbt node execution, and result storage. Enables data teams to treat dbt model runs as first-class Prefect tasks, gaining full observability and retry logic without wrapping dbt in shell commands. Listed on Snowflake Marketplace for joint Snowflake+dbt+Prefect deployments.