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Company Research Report: Astronomer






1. Company Overview



Name: Astronomer

Mission: Empowering data teams to enhance their data availability with Astro, a modern data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow®.

Founding Information: No information is available.

Key People in the Company:
  • Andy Byron - Chief Executive Officer

  • Bhanu Sareddy - Chief Customer Officer

  • Mike Haas - Chief Revenue Officer

  • Julian LaNeve - Chief Technology Officer

  • Leo Zheng - Chief Marketing Officer

  • Vikram Koka - Chief Strategy Officer

  • Christopher Lefelhocz - SVP, R&D

  • Pete DeJoy - SVP, Product & Founder

  • Mike LeBlanc - SVP, Finance

  • Viraj Parekh - Field CTO & Founder

  • Greg Neiheisel - Founder & Engineering Fellow


Headquarters:
  • New York, NY

  • 50 W 23rd Street, 14th floor, New York, NY 10010

  • San Jose, CA

  • 2580 N 1st Street, Suite 480, San Jose, CA 95131

  • San Francisco, CA

  • 8 California Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94111

  • Cincinnati, OH

  • 231 W 12th Street, Suite E, Cincinnati, OH 25202


Number of Employees: No information is available.

Revenue: No information is available.

Known For: Astronomer is known for its fully-managed platform to take Apache Airflow® to the next level, providing a unified data platform that ensures data is delivered on time, securely, and accurately.




2. Products



Astro



Description: Astro is a unified data platform built on Apache Airflow® that ensures data is delivered on time, securely, and accurately.

Key Features:
  • Elastic Scalability: Dynamic scaling of deployments and clusters.

  • High Availability: Minimize downtime with queue-based task execution.

  • Governance & Observability: Complete oversight and control over data ecosystems.

  • Intelligent Infrastructure Management: Proactive monitoring and efficient infrastructure scaling.

  • Integration Capabilities: Seamless connectivity with over 1500 integrations.

  • Enhanced Productivity: Tools for rapid development, testing, and deployment.


Integrations



Astro supports integration with various platforms and services including:
  • dbt Cloud

  • Snowflake

  • Databricks

  • OpenAI

  • Great Expectations

  • Cohere

  • OpenSearch

  • pgvector

  • Pinecone

  • Segment

  • Weaviate

  • MongoDB

  • Tableau

  • Airbyte

  • Elastisearch

  • Docker

  • Redis

  • Azure


Improved Infrastructure Management



Key Features:
  • Self-Healing Workers: Automates detection and termination of non-functional workers.

  • Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Simplifies infrastructure management while ensuring compliance.

  • Customer Managed Workload Identity: Enhances security by managing AWS IAM roles.


Developer Tools



Key Features:
  • Cloud IDE: Interface to write Airflow pipelines in SQL or vanilla Python.

  • Astro CLI: Install, run, and test Airflow from the command line.

  • Branch-Based Deployments: Isolated environments for secure development and testing.

  • Astro API: Mitigate risks associated with manual processes through control and automation.


Security and Governance



Key Features:
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) Enforcement

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

  • VPC Connectivity: Secure integration with private networks.

  • Environment Isolation: Ensures complete data isolation.

  • Custom Deployment Roles: Granular access control for compliance and security.





3. Recent Developments



Recent Platform Releases:

  • July 2024 Release:

  • Unified Workflows with dbt on Astro: Integrated experience for deploying and managing dbt on Astro.

  • Improved Pipeline Resilience:

  • Universal Metrics Export: Real-time observability.

  • Self-Healing Workers.

  • Automated Infrastructure Provisioning and Management:

  • Customer Managed Workload Identity on AWS.

  • Astro Terraform Provider.


  • May 2024 Release:

  • Governance at Scale:

  • Astro Organizational Dashboards for enhanced decision-making.

  • Astro API for control and automation.

  • Innovation Enhancements:

  • GitHub Integration for CI/CD processes.

  • Security Enhancements:

  • Custom Deployment Roles.

  • Customer Managed Identity on GCP and Azure.


Notable Partnerships:
  • Strategic Alliance with Microsoft: Offering fully managed Apache Airflow® for Microsoft Azure Customers.

  • Investment and Acquisitions:

  • Series C funding of $213 million.

  • Acquisition of Datakin to scale operations and meet global demand.


New Product Features:
  • Cosmos by Astronomer: Provides complete visibility of dbt tasks within Airflow.

  • Event-Driven Workflows: Leveraging dynamic tasks, data-aware scheduling, and deferrable operators.

  • Dynamic Task Mapping: Faster ETL/ELT processing.





This report contains key information about Astronomer, its products, recent developments, and notable partnerships, providing a comprehensive overview of the company's position in the data orchestration and management industry.