Prefect
The easiest way to automate your data stack.
Founded in 2018 by Jeremiah Lowin in Washington DC, Prefect was built as a modern alternative to Apache Airflow for data workflow orchestration. Where Airflow was built for static batch pipelines, Prefect was designed for the dynamic, complex data workflows that modern data teams actually run. The company raised $32 million in 2022 at a $300 million valuation and has built both a popular open-source project and a cloud platform. Prefect has over 1 million downloads per month and is used by data teams at companies including Accenture, Tesla, and BetterUp. The company has expanded into AI workflow orchestration as AI pipelines have become as critical as data pipelines for most organizations.
Active Founders
Jeremiah Lowin
Founder / CEO
Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of Prefect. He previously worked as a quantitative researcher and technologist at hedge funds and financial firms, where he developed deep expertise in building reliable automated pipelines for mission-critical workflows. He founded Prefect to bring that reliability to the data engineering and AI workflow space with a product that developers actually enjoy using.