Astronomer vs VAST Data
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Enterprise Apache Airflow platform with $213M raised; Astro managed cloud deployment for data pipeline orchestration serving the massive self-managed Airflow install base.
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Astronomer is the company behind Apache Airflow's enterprise deployment platform, Astro, providing managed cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and development tools that make it easier to build, run, and manage data pipelines built on Apache Airflow — the most widely adopted open-source data orchestration framework. Founded in 2018 in Cincinnati, Ohio and having raised over $213 million in funding, Astronomer serves data engineering teams at companies that have adopted Airflow for workflow orchestration but need enterprise support, reliability SLAs, and developer tooling beyond the self-managed open-source experience.
Closed a $1 billion Series F at a $30 billion valuation in April 2026, backed by NVIDIA and Fidelity, after surpassing $500M in committed ARR with its AI Operating System platform.
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VAST Data builds the AI Operating System — a unified platform combining all-flash storage (DataStore), an AI-native database (DataBase), and a globally distributed namespace (DataSpace) into a single infrastructure stack. The platform is purpose-built for organizations training, running, and managing AI models and agents at scale. In 2026, VAST launched AgentEngine, a production-grade deployment layer for multi-agent AI stacks with full auditability and MCP integration.
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