Trigger.dev
Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
About Trigger.dev
Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling.
Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.
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Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Matt Aitken
Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.
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Eric Allam
Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.
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James Ritchie
I'm co-founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously I was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. I also built JSON Hero, another popular OSS developer tool.
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Dan Patel
Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the open source background jobs platform, and JSON Hero.
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I pitch you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
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