Airbyte has announced a $5.2 million seed round led by Accel to help establish itself as the open-source standard for data integration and data movement. The company aims to address the challenges faced in data integrations, which often require thousands of connectors and can be time-consuming. Since its soft launch in September 2020, Airbyte has gained significant traction with over 600 companies replicating data using their platform. They plan to grow the team, improve developer experience, release new features, and support their community to achieve their goal of becoming the standard for data movement.