Dagster Labs, Inc.

Dagster Labs, Inc., formerly known as Elementl, Inc., is a software company founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. The company was established by Nick Schrock, a former Facebook engineer, to address challenges faced by modern data teams, focusing on improving data orchestration, testing, and observability tools. Since its founding, Dagster Labs has developed Dagster, an open-source, cloud-native data orchestration platform designed to help engineering and data teams build, monitor, and scale complex data pipelines.

The company offers a hybrid business model combining a freemium open-source product with a paid subscription service for Dagster Cloud, a managed platform launched in 2022 that provides enterprise-ready features including advanced access controls and hosted deployment options. Dagster Labs serves a diverse range of customers including enterprises in finance, retail, healthcare, and technology sectors, targeting data engineering teams, ML Ops professionals, and developers working with analytics, BI, ETL, and production data workflows. Backed by leading investors such as Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, the company has secured approximately $47 million in funding through Series A and Series B rounds.

Dagster Labs remains an independent company focused on advancing next-generation data infrastructure through its core products Dagster and Dagster Cloud. With a small team of roughly 36 employees, Dagster Labs continues to grow its open-source community and expand its commercial offerings aimed at enabling organizations to build scalable and productive data platforms.