Newsletter

/

Monthly Bytes

Airbyte Raises a $150M Series-B

- Announcing Prefect integration - Deploying Airbyte on Kubernetes with Plural.sh - Scaling data pipelines on Kubernetes - Using an ETL framework vs writing yet another ETL script

January 7, 2022
MonthlyBytes
Here are the community news and product updates of the past month.
We just raised $150m at a $1.5b valuation. The round was led by new investor Altimeter Capital and Coatue Management, alongside Thrive Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Accel, and SV Angel.
Read about it here >>
John and Michel will host a live video call on Tuesday 01/12 at 11am PT. We will show how we pitched Airbyte for the Series-B and answer any questions.
Sign up here >>
Writing an ETL script is easy. Making it production ready and easy to maintain is way harder. Learn why use an open-source ETL framework instead.
Read it here >>
The integration with Prefect enables organizations using Airbyte to leverage Prefect’s orchestration platform to trigger Airbyte syncing jobs.
Read it here >>
In this session of Airbyte Demo Days, we go over the easiest and most reliable way to deploy Airbyte on Kubernetes using an awesome tool called Plural.
Read it here >>
Engineering Blog
Learn how we extend entrypoints in third-party Docker images to intercept data coming from Kubernetes pods.
Read it here >>
Learn how we scale data pipelines running on Kubernetes. We combine various low level Linux tools with the sidecar pattern to easily pipe data between dynamically created Kubernetes applications.
Read it here >>
Recipes
Learn how to build an ELT pipeline to discover GitHub users that have contributed to the Prefect, Airbyte, and dbt repositories.
Read it here >>
Learn how to easily build a data ingestion pipeline to load business data from Mailchimp to Snowflake.
Read it here >>
Community Content
Learn how Splitgraph customized Airbyte and dbt to build their data catalog solution.
Read it here >>
Terrific article with a Github repo showcasing how to use BigQuery, Airbyte, dbt, Apache Superset, and OpenMetadata together.
Read it here >>
Liberate Your Data

Try Airbyte Agents

Be among the first to explore our new platform and get access to our latest features.

Related editions

Newsletter
Semantic search now covers Google Drive and Granola
August 18, 2026
Newsletter
Agents can now write to Salesforce and HubSpot
July 16, 2026
Newsletter
Airbyte Agents now supports teams
June 17, 2026