Orkes adds $60M as durable workflow tooling expands into AI agents

Orkes, a provider of agents and durable workflow orchestration software, has raised a $60 million Series B round led by AVP.

The company’s platform is aimed at teams building and operating complex workflows across microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, human workflow orchestration and business processes. On its site, Orkes also highlights agentic workflows, Orkes Cloud and Agentspan, alongside training through Orkes Academy.

That product mix helps explain where Orkes is trying to sit in the market: not just as a classic workflow engine, but as infrastructure for long-running, durable execution across both application back ends and newer AI-agent use cases. A webinar promoted on the company’s website — “Beyond Sandboxes: Architecting Durable Runtimes for AI Agents” — points to that emphasis directly.

The funding announcement itself is straightforward: $60 million in Series B capital, with AVP named as lead investor, announced on April 27, 2026. The source material provided does not specify additional investors, valuation, or a detailed use of proceeds.

What the website does show is the breadth of Orkes’ commercial pitch. The company markets its platform around faster development cycles, easier maintenance and improved user experiences for microservices and real-time API orchestration. It also stresses durable workflows for event-driven architecture, human-in-the-loop flows and long-running processes in sectors including financial services, media and entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare, shipping and logistics.

There are also hints of competitive positioning in the materials. Orkes features a comparison page for “Orkes vs. Conductor OSS,” and one customer testimonial from Foxtel says the company is migrating more workflows from other platforms to Orkes while starting new flows there as well. That suggests Orkes is selling not only greenfield orchestration, but replacement of incumbent workflow tooling inside larger enterprises.

With fresh Series B funding in hand, Orkes is entering its next phase with a message centered on durable execution and orchestration that can span conventional software systems and emerging AI-agent workloads. The company has not laid out a specific spending plan in the provided source, but its public materials make clear the areas it is building around: enterprise cloud deployment, agentic workflows and workflow infrastructure for complex, multi-step applications.