I recently sat down with Matt Aiken, CEO of Trigger,dev, to talk about what they’re building and why we were excited to lead their Series A at Standard Capital. Trigger helps developers build reliable AI agents by making it easy to run complex, multi-step workloads without having to design and maintain a large orchestration system from scratch.
The team went through YC in early 2023 with a different idea that never quite clicked. About a year and a half ago, they made a key shift: instead of just background jobs, Trigger started executing user code directly in the cloud. That change — combined with the rise of AI agents as a real category — is when growth accelerated.
Today, Trigger has over 12,000 GitHub stars and ran more than 250 million agent executions last month, essentially from a standing start. Developers use Trigger to run large numbers of jobs in parallel, handle retries, manage prioritization across users, and get visibility into failures and performance. One example Matt shared was icon.com, which uses Trigger to power large-scale video ad generation pipelines without building a complex microservices architecture internally.
Trigger emphasizes reliability, observability, and clear step-by-step execution, addressing common issues with agent systems that behave like black boxes. The company is also strongly oriented around TypeScript, based on the view that agents are applications and that TypeScript offers a strong foundation for building both the agent logic and surrounding infrastructure.
Trigger is hiring across Europe, with a base in London, and is already operating at a level of scale that presents meaningful technical challenges. We’re excited to be partnering with Matt and the team as they continue building core infrastructure for the next generation of AI-powered products.