Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Celonis is a privately held enterprise software company founded in 2011 that pioneered process mining and expanded into Process Intelligence: it combines process data, business knowledge, decision intelligence and AI to help organizations understand, improve and operate end-to-end business processes. The company says it has 3,000+ employees and serves 1,400+ businesses; its About page separately describes 5,000+ enterprise customers, so customer-count claims vary by page and definition.
Primary product
Celonis Platform / Process Intelligence Platform: a cloud platform with Data Core, the Celonis Context Model (a system-agnostic real-time digital twin of operations), and tools to analyze, design and operate AI-driven processes.
Founded
2011
Headquarters
Munich, Germany and New York City, United States (Celonis SE's registered office is Munich; the company presents Munich and New York as dual headquarters).
Team size
3,000+ worldwide
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development / Enterprise Software
Sub-industry
Process mining, Process Intelligence, business-process management, enterprise AI and execution management
Offices
Business model
Stage
Privately held, late-stage / Series D
Total raised
$1.8B
Latest round
Conventional debt / syndicated revolving credit facility · Aug 2022
Latest amount
$600M
Aug 2022 · Qatar Investment Authority (lead) with participation from multiple institutional investors
Aug 2022 · Syndicate of banks led by KeyBank / major investment banks
Aug 2022 · Qatar Investment Authority, Activant Capital, Neuberger Berman, Alta Park Capital and Commonfund
Syndicated revolving credit facility / conventional debt
Aug 2022 · KeyBank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Citi
Jun 2021 · Durable Capital Partners LP and T. Rowe Price
Nov 2019 · Arena Holdings
Jun 2018 · Accel / 83North
Jun 2016 · Accel
Leadership
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
President
Chief Product Officer
Chief Scientist, Enterprise AI
Chief Legal and Trust Officer
Chief Growth Officer
General Manager, North America
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Innovation
Investors
Celonis describes its culture through the values “Best Team Wins,” “We Own It,” “Earth is Our Future,” and “Live for Customer Value,” with the FISA operating principles—Focus, Invent, Simplify, Act. Engineering materials emphasize ownership, cross-functional collaboration, reliability and blameless learning.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public signals include equity grants for full-time employees, performance/bonus and equity references in employer-profile materials, and relocation assistance in some locations. Celonis does not publish a single global compensation framework or universal visa policy; role- and country-specific job postings should be checked.
Benefits
Pricing
A free plan is publicly advertised; enterprise pricing is primarily quote-based and depends on data volume, users, modules, deployment and services. No reliable public price list was found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $500M-$600M annually (third-party estimate; not company-reported). Other unverified sources have estimated higher ARR, so this should be treated as directional only.
Celonis launched its Context Model and announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ikigai Labs, adding planning, forecasting, simulation, causal inference and decision-intelligence capabilities; closing was stated as subject to customary procedures.
SourceCelonis acquired Symbio, an AI-driven business-process-management company, according to transaction databases and Celonis acquisition references.
SourceCelonis acquired Process Analytics Factory (PAF), expanding process mining and analytics capabilities for Microsoft Power BI users.
SourceEmployee-reported third-party layoff trackers reported approximately 120 affected employees; this is not an official Celonis announcement and should be treated as low-confidence. A 2026 industry report said Celonis had avoided mass layoffs while making limited hiring/recruiting adjustments.
SourceDiginomica · Jul 2026
An analysis of the Ikigai integration described Celonis's strategy of combining process context, graphical/time-series models and language models for more reliable enterprise AI decisions.
Celonis / Everest Group · Jul 2026
Celonis was recognized as a Leader for the seventh consecutive year; the announcement highlighted the Context Model, agentic AI, Data Core, Networks, integrations and reported approximately $11B in customer value realized.
ERP Today · Jul 2026
The article examined Celonis's repositioning from process mining toward a horizontal enterprise-AI context layer combining operational context with planning, forecasting and simulation.
Celonis / Business Wire · May 2026
Celonis launched its Context Model and announced the Ikigai Labs acquisition, adding decision intelligence, forecasting, planning, simulation and MIT-linked intellectual property.
Business Wire / Gartner · May 2026
Celonis reported another Gartner Leader recognition for Process Intelligence, reinforcing its positioning in the process-intelligence market.
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