Trigger.dev
Background jobs for modern apps.
Founded in 2022 by Matt Aitken and James Ritchie in London, Trigger.dev was built to make background jobs feel as native as writing regular code. Developers can define jobs directly in their TypeScript or JavaScript codebase using a simple SDK, and Trigger.dev handles scheduling, retries, logging, and monitoring. The company went through Y Combinator in 2023 and raised $5 million in seed funding. Trigger.dev has particularly found traction among developers building AI applications that require complex asynchronous processing — fine-tuning workflows, document processing pipelines, and multi-step agent tasks. The open-source project has thousands of GitHub stars and the company is building a cloud platform on top.
Active Founders
Matt Aitken
Founder / CEO
Matt Aitken is the co-founder and CEO of Trigger.dev. He is a seasoned software developer and entrepreneur who has built multiple developer tools products. He founded Trigger.dev to solve the universal problem of background job infrastructure — a problem that every application eventually hits but that existing solutions handle with far too much operational complexity.
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