Airbyte is a data integration company founded in 2020, built around an open-source platform for moving data between systems. Its catalog of more than 600 connectors syncs data from sources such as CRMs, billing, support, and product systems into warehouses, lakes, and downstream applications. More than 25,000 companies use Airbyte, and the open-source core remains central to how the product is built and adopted.
Airbyte's wedge was open source: rather than charging per connector like incumbent ELT vendors, it made the connector ecosystem community-extensible and free to self-host, then layered managed cloud and enterprise offerings on top. The company has since repositioned around AI, framing itself as the context layer that gives production AI agents unified, permission-aware access to the operational data scattered across a company's tools, combining large-scale replication with real-time fetching. Airbyte has raised $181M from investors including Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, and Y Combinator.