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Trigger.dev

Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

trigger.dev
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
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Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

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

42-46 Princelet St, London, EC1A 1AL, United Kingdom (HQ)
3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT, United Kingdom (registered office)
London, England, United Kingdom

Business model

Usage-based cloud SaaS
Open-source self-hosted software
Enterprise custom pricing
Committed-use infrastructure pricing

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$19M

Latest round

Series A · Dec 2025

Latest amount

$16M

Series A

Dec 2025 · Standard Capital

$16M

Seed

Aug 2023 · Y Combinator

$3M

Pre-seed

Apr 2023 · Eight Capital

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Matt Aitken

Founder, CEO

Eric Allam

Founder & CTO

Daniel Patel

Founder

James Ritchie

Founder

Ben Stephens

Chief of Staff

Investors

Andrew Miklas
Ant Wilson
Arash Ferdowsi
Bryan Berg
Christopher Golda
CTO Fund
Dalton Caldwell
Danny Sheridan
David Fowler
Edrizio De La Cruz
Eight Capital
Eli Brown
Functional Capital
Gal Kleinman
Kenny Johnston
Laird Ventures
LBS Investments
Liquid 2 Ventures
Michael Grinich
Moataz Soliman
Nir Gazit
Orange Collective
Paul Buchheit
Paul Copplestone
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund
Standard Capital
Thomas Mann
Wayfinder Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

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

Transparent compensation
Equity / ESOP
Async working
Home office setup budget
25 days vacation
Sick leave
Parental leave
Annual training budget
Pension contributions
401k contributions
Slack support for priority customers

Product & market

Pricing

Free, Hobby, Pro, and custom Enterprise plans; usage-based compute pricing plus a self-hosted open-source option.

Differentiators

  • —Apache 2.0 open source
  • —Self-hostable
  • —TypeScript-native
  • —Durable long-running tasks with retries and queues
  • —Built-in observability and realtime updates
  • —Human-in-the-loop workflows
  • —Elastic scaling with no server management
  • —Enterprise controls like RBAC and SSO
  • —AI-agent-first workflow primitives

Technology

TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Python
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
EKS
Firecracker MicroVMs
OpenTelemetry
Electric SQL
React hooks
Playwright
Puppeteer
FFmpeg
Prisma
ClickHouse
GitHub
Vercel
PostHog

Customers

Cal.com
Icon
Tierly
GovSignals
Midday
HeroUI
MagicSchool
DavidAI

Competitors

Zapier
n8n
Make
Temporal
Dify
LangChain
Retool
Codewords

Scale & contact

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

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Signals & risks

Other
Jun 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).

Source

Latest news

Trigger.dev v4.5.8 Release Notes

Trigger.dev · Jul 2026

Release notes mention server-side changes, billing alerts, realtime backend metrics, and support changes for managed Cloud and self-hosted users.

Incident report on June 22, 2026

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.

Powering Cal.com's core booking engine with AI scans, calendar syncs, and durable async fan-out tasks

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 raises $16M Series A

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.

Our roadmap for the next 3 months and beyond

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.

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