Dagster, a company behind the open-source data orchestration platform, has raised $14M in Series A funding led by Mike Volpi of Index Ventures. The company aims to empower every organization to build a productive, scalable data platform. Founded by Nick Schrock, who previously worked at Facebook, Elementl (previously known as Dagster Labs) is focused on solving the problem of managing complex data platforms. The era of "Big Data" has ended, and the time of "Big Complexity" has come, where practitioners' productivity, data management, and other issues will dominate data infrastructure development and tooling for the next decade. Elementl's mission is to bring support for the full engineering lifecycle to the orchestrator and explicitly target the data management use case. The company believes that its integrated approach to data management and orchestration will be as self-evident and impactful in hindsight as the vertical integration of compute and storage that has made cloud data warehouses dominant today.