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Inngest

Inngest is a developer platform that makes background jobs, event-driven workflows, and AI agents durable and observable without separate infrastructure.

inngest.com · San Francisco

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StageSeries ASeptember 2025 · led by Altimeter[3][5]
Raised$32Mdisclosed rounds[6][11]
Headcount24as of Jun 2026[6]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[2][6][8]
Money

Raised $32M across disclosed rounds.[6][11]

Series A closed September 2025, led by Altimeter.[3][5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, Notable Capital, Afore Capital, GGV Capital, Guillermo Rauch.[1][4][5][8]

People

Tony Holdstock-Brown, Founder and CEO[1][2][8][9][10][22][23]

Dan Farrelly, Co-founder and CTO[1][2][8][9][10][22][23]

Riley Durham, Founding Brand and Experiential Marketer[6][23]

Sterling Chin, Founding Developer Relations[6][23]

Patrick West, Founding Account Executive[6][23]

Lauren Craigie, Head of Marketing[6][23]

Signals
Jun 30 2026launchAgent Evals launched in public beta on v4.8.0 of the TS SDK company claim, not independently confirmed[6]
Sep 16 2025fundingInngest raises $21M Series A led by Altimeter[3][5]
Jan 30 2024fundingInngest raises $6.1M as it expands its workflow engine[1]
Jul 12 2023fundingInngest helps developers build their back-end workflows, raises $3M[2][4][8]
Comps

Temporal · temporal.io · Same buyer and job to be done: engineering teams choosing a durable execution and workflow orchestration layer for production workloads, and Inngest's own Series A post positions against durable execution tools that lack built-in observability and replay.[5][6]

Trigger.dev · trigger.dev · Same buyer and job to be done: TypeScript developers building background jobs and durable workflows in code without managing queue infrastructure, competing for the same developer-tool budget.[6][11]

AWS Step Functions · aws.amazon.com/step-functions · Same buyer and job to be done: developers building event-driven workflows and durable state machines on serverless infrastructure, which Inngest's GGV investor post explicitly frames as the alternative to hand-rolling step functions and queues.[8]

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Editions
  1. Edition 2Aug 24 2026current

    Since edition 1

  2. Edition 1May 8 2026Earliest saved edition
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CALL NO.CS·INNGEST·26

Inngest is a developer platform that makes background jobs, event-driven workflows, and AI agents durable and observable without separate infrastructure.

inngest.com · San Francisco

StageSeries A
Raised$32M
Headcount24
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsTemporal +2