Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Open-source, TypeScript-native platform for durable AI agents and workflow orchestration/background jobs. Trigger.dev provides long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, realtime updates, and elastic scaling, and can be used as a managed cloud or self-hosted stack.
Primary product
Open-source background jobs and AI workflow platform
Founded
2022
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / workflow orchestration / AI infrastructure
Offices
1 job at Trigger.dev
Business model
Leadership
Founder, CEO
Founder & CTO
Founder
Founder
Chief of Staff
Investors
Proudly open source, customer-obsessed, pragmatic, fast-moving, and low-ego; the team emphasizes community contributions, async work, and shipping quickly.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Compensation is benchmarked with the PostHog salary calculator and varies by location and experience; public job postings disclose a UK/remote salary band of about $112K-$122K for one role, plus equity.
Benefits
Pricing
Free, Hobby, Pro, and custom Enterprise plans; usage-based compute pricing plus a self-hosted open-source option.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approx. $1.4M-$4.1M annual revenue (public estimate; midpoint around $2.7M ARR)
Estimated monthly visits
27.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Major outage across us-east-1 and eu-central-1 caused long delays for new runs; Trigger.dev said no data was lost and later outlined mitigation steps including multi-cluster failover, backpressure, US West expansion, and migration of new clusters to managed Kubernetes (EKS).
SourceTrigger.dev · Jul 2026
Release notes mention server-side changes, billing alerts, realtime backend metrics, and support changes for managed Cloud and self-hosted users.
Trigger.dev · Jun 2026
A multi-region outage affected us-east-1 and eu-central-1 due to AWS capacity and Kubernetes/etcd failures. Trigger.dev said no data was lost and outlined remediation including multi-cluster failover and EKS migration.
Trigger.dev · Jun 2026
Cal.com uses Trigger.dev for millions of runs per month, including booking orchestration, calendar sync, webhook delivery, AI phishing detection, and fraud analysis.
Trigger.dev · Dec 2025
Trigger.dev announced a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2, Wayfinder Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, Michael Grinich, and CTO Fund. The company said it supports over 30,000 developers and hundreds of millions of agent runs monthly.
Trigger.dev · Sep 2025
The roadmap highlights MicroVM execution, a full-stack agent toolkit, GitHub and Vercel integrations, better logging, and more advanced metrics/alerting.