Restate, the Berlin startup built by Apache Flink's creators, raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular, lifting its total funding to $27 million. The money pays for engineers and a San Francisco commercial hub to sell software that lets AI agents resume work after a crash.
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A reported $500mn round at $12bn pre-money values the workflow engine at roughly seven times its March 2025 mark. The revenue figure behind it is nine months old.
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Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.
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Temporal closed a $550 million round at a $12.55 billion valuation, roughly 50 times the revenue it reports. The product it sells exists to remember which step of a crashed job already ran.
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buildOne report1 publisher Temporal's $550M round values durable execution at 2.5x its February price
Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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buildOne report1 publisher Temporal talks $12B six months after $5B: durable execution is now agent infrastructure
A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
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