Astronomer is a data orchestration software company that develops Astro, a managed unified orchestration platform built on Apache Airflow. Astronomer's Twitter Score is 8.7 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #107,343 among 498,071 tracked accounts.
Astronomer was founded by Pete DeJoy and has been advancing Apache Airflow development since 2018. The company employs 18 of Airflow's top committers and 10 Apache Airflow Project Management Committee members, giving it deep roots in the open-source project that powers its commercial platform. Astro was released as a fully managed SaaS offering in mid-2022 and, per the company's own reporting in February 2024, processes more than 100 million tasks per month.
Astronomer has raised substantial venture funding across multiple rounds. On March 23, 2022, the company announced a $213 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with participation from Meritech Capital, Salesforce Ventures, J.P. Morgan, K5 Global, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock, and Sierra Ventures. On May 1, 2025, Astronomer announced a $93 million Series D led by Bain Capital Ventures alongside Salesforce Ventures and existing investors. Also on March 23, 2022, Astronomer announced its acquisition of Datakin, with Datakin's data-lineage capabilities set to be integrated into the Astronomer platform.
Astronomer has a presence of 19,515 followers as of October 2026 on X and has published 4,558 posts. The account has been mentioned by 36 accounts a total of 76 times.
Who follows Astronomer on X?
The accounts that follow Astronomer include 37 founders, 14 angel investors, 16 influencers and 7 VCs. Among them are Nader Dabit, Ping, Tiffany Fong, Bruno Faviero, Jeff Weinstein and Dave McClure.