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Airbyte

Open-source data movement platform with hundreds of connectors and an AI assistant that helps build new ones from API docs in minutes.

Airbyte was founded in 2020 by Michel Tricot and John Lafleur, who had both spent years building data integration pipelines by hand at earlier companies and set out to make connector-building a shared, open-source effort instead of something every data team reinvents. The project's core insight was that most integration work is repetitive plumbing — auth, pagination, schema mapping — so a standardized connector spec plus a large community could cover far more sources than any single vendor's engineering team. That bet paid off: Airbyte now ships with several hundred pre-built connectors covering databases, SaaS APIs, and files, on top of self-hosted, MIT-licensed core software. The company added an AI-assisted Connector Builder that reads a target API's documentation and pre-fills most of the connector configuration, plus PyAirbyte, a Python library for embedding data movement directly into ML and agent pipelines. Airbyte has raised roughly $180 million, including a 2021 Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, and is based in San Francisco.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Sector

data