Dagster Labs
Dagster Labs makes a data orchestration platform for engineering teams, with 64 employees. The company has raised $49M, including a Series B in May 2023 backed by Coatue and Georgian.
The growth story
Dagster Labs grew from 36 to 64 employees between 2023 and 2026, raising $49M along the way, most recently a Series B in May 2023.
About
Dagster provides a developer-focused platform for managing data workflows, aimed at simplifying pipeline creation and maintenance for engineering teams. Its open-source GitHub repository suggests a product-led growth strategy.
The company has scaled to 64 employees since its 2018 founding, with recent funding suggesting accelerated growth. Its Series B round included participation from notable investors like 8VC and Coatue.
Founders and leadership
Engineering dominates the organization with 18 staff. The leadership team comes from data infrastructure backgrounds, with a median tenure of just one year indicating recent scaling.
The Dagster Labs org chart
Matt Krukowski (Interim CEO) leads 23 mapped leaders with 10 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 19 (-21% YoY), Sales 18 (-33% YoY), Customer Success and Support 5 (+150% YoY), Arts and Design 5 (-17% YoY).
Talent flow
Dagster recruits heavily from data platforms like Snowflake and Facebook (4 hires each) and workflow tools like Astronomer. Alumni frequently move to developer tools startups including Vercel (7 departures) and Prefect.
Most common previous employers of Dagster Labs staff: Snowflake (4), Facebook (4), Astronomer (3), Nextmv (2), Datadog (2), Confluent (2). Former Dagster Labs employees most often moved to Vercel (7), Prefect (3), Anthropic (3), Indent (3), Supabase (2), Perplexity (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Dagster Labs mafia
7 alumni have founded companies, including infrastructure startups like Succinct (26 staff) and Indent (11 staff), plus YC-backed /dev/fast.
7Sashank Thupukari, was Engineering until 2021Sidharth Menon, was Engineering Fellow until 2021Eric Chernoff, was Head of Partnerships (acquired Retain.ai) until 2025Bosmat Eldar, was Head of Engineering until 2025
Mia Lopez, was Revenue Operations Lead until 2025What this company is made of
Most common skills at Dagster Labs: Leadership (22), Management (21), HTML (21), Project Management (21), Microsoft Office (21), Python (Programming Language) (20), Microsoft Excel (20), Microsoft Word (19).
Where the team actually sits
Dagster Labs people are concentrated in California, United States (6), New York, United States (6), Greater Boston (3), Colorado, United States (3). 3 offices on record.
Search footprint
Dagster Labs attracts about 46 organic search visits a month. It gained 0 ranking keywords and lost 0 in the last period.
Frequently asked
Dagster Labs has 64 employees as of September 2026.
Dagster Labs has raised $49M in total, most recently a Series B round in May 2023.
Dagster Labs was founded in 2018 by Nick Schrock.
Matt Krukowski (Interim CEO) sits at the top of Dagster Labs's reporting structure, with 10 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Dagster Labs staff are Snowflake (4 people), Facebook (4 people), Astronomer (3 people).
Former Dagster Labs employees most often move to Vercel (7), Prefect (3), Anthropic (3).
At least 7 companies have a founder who previously worked at Dagster Labs, including Succinct, Indent, Axilon.
Dagster Labs attracts about 46 organic search visits a month.
The most common skills among Dagster Labs staff are Leadership, Management, HTML, Project Management, Microsoft Office.
Dagster Labs staff are concentrated in California, United States (6), New York, United States (6), Greater Boston (3).
Dagster Labs has about 19 people in Engineering, down 21% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Dagster Labs has about 18 people in Sales, down 33% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 49 current and 96 former Dagster Labs profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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