The pair was caught on camera and got called out by Coldplay singer Chris Martin
If you’re going to have an affair – don’t go to a Coldplay concert.
Andy Byron, CEO of the billion-dollar tech company Astronomer, was caught on camera at a Coldplay concert with the company’s head of Human Resources, Kristin Cabot. The two were cozied up wit their arms around each other, which has sparked major rumors that the two are having an alleged affair. When they realized they were caught, they both immediately hid their faces, and Byron even ducked out of frame.
To make matters worse, the “couple” got called out by Coldplay singer Chris Martin.
“Whoa, look at these two,” Martin said in front of the capacity crowd.
When Byron and Cabot really looked like they did not want to be on camera, Martin said what everyone else was thinking.
“Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy.”
Watch footage of the incident below.
According to the internet, Andy Byron is married. Kristin Cabot reportedly shortened her professional name recently from Kristin Cabot Thornby. Byron was named CEO of Astronomer in July 0f 2023. He is responsible for the data‑orchestration firm behind Astronomer, built on Apache Airflow. The platform is used by enterprises worldwide, leverages more than 70 % higher uptime vs. self‑managed Airflow. Under his leadership, Astronomer raised a $93 M Series D round in May 2025 led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing the company at approximately $1.3 billon. He oversees a senior team including Bhanu Sareddy (CCO), Julian LaNeve (CTO), Mike Haas (CRO), Leo Zheng (CMO), as well as Cabot, who came on board just seven months ago. She is the company’s Chief People Officer, which is essentially Human Resources.
Founded in 2018 by Greg Neiheisel, Ry Walker, and Tim Brunk, Astronomer is a privately held tech startup headquartered in New York City, with additional hubs in Cincinnati, San Jose, and San Francisco. The company specializes in data orchestration, offering a managed cloud platform — Astro — built on Apache Airflow, the leading open-source workflow engine.
Astronomer is a fully-managed DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow 3.0, enabling teams to build, run, and observe data pipelines in one unified interface. It delivers intelligent autoscaling, pipeline observability, cost optimization, and enterprise-grade multi-tenant collaboration. It serves major enterprises — Uber, Apple, Ford, Bloomberg, Stripe, LinkedIn — and powers data pipelines across thousands of production systems and leads the development of Airflow: 100% of Airflow releases since 2018, with top committers and project maintainers on staff.
To date, Astronomer has raised $283 million+ across seed to Series C rounds, culminating in a $213 M Series C in March 2022 — pushing its valuation to approximately $1.3 billion. Major investors include Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Venrock, Bain Capital Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Meritech, J.P. Morgan, Sutter Hill, and K5 Global. The 2022 round funded the strategic acquisition of Datakin, enhancing data lineage and observability capabilities. Astronomer employs 250–500 people across several global offices and supports 80,000+ enterprises using Airflow technology.
