Trigger.dev Raises $16M Series A
Trigger.dev has raised a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital along with existing investors Pioneer Fund and Y Combinator. The round marks one of the first investments from Standard Capital's inaugural fund, the Series A firm led by Dalton Caldwell, Paul Buchheit, and Bryan Berg.
The round was joined by Michael Grinich and CTO Fund, with other existing investors Liquid 2 Ventures, Wayfinder Ventures, and Rebel Fund also participating.
Trigger.dev is an open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript, offering long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling. The platform addresses a real pain point: while prototyping AI is easy, building production-grade agents is not. Trigger.dev handles reliability, queues, scaling, task orchestration, human-in-the-loop, and observability.
The platform is already being used to execute hundreds of millions of agents each month by over 30,000 developers powering apps like MagicSchool (AI teaching assistants), Icon.com (AI-generated advertisements), and DavidAI (AI audio datasets).
The company was founded by Matt Aitken, Dan, James, and Eric, who previously built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer used by more than 35,000 developers monthly. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform acquired in 2015, while Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple's App of the Year.
Trigger.dev came through Y Combinator's W23 batch. The seed round brought in an impressive roster of developer-focused investors including Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson (founders of Supabase), Pioneer Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Wayfinder Ventures, and Rebel Fund.
With the new funding, the company plans significant improvements to the platform, starting with more advanced observability features and faster run starts using MicroVMs. Sandboxes will allow execution of untrusted code, and the team is shipping a suite of tools for context engineering and management.