Temporal Technologies
Temporal sells an open-source durable execution platform that keeps long-running applications and AI agents running through failures, monetized through its managed Temporal Cloud service.
Raised $1.2B across disclosed rounds.[1][3]
Series E closed September 2026, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.[1][2][3][9]
post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.
Named investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Tiger Global, T. Rowe Price, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, GIC, Sapphire Ventures, Amplify Partners, Madrona, StepStone Group, MongoDB Ventures, Conversion Capital, 137 Ventures.[1][2][3][4][6][7][9]
Samar Abbas, Co-founder and CEO[1][2][3][6][10]
Maxim Fateev, Co-founder and CTO[1][2][3][6][10]
Timothy Hughes, SVP, Global Sales and Customer Success[11][12][13][14]
Keith Bodin, Head of Engineering, Application Platform[11][12][13][14]
Brandy Smith, Head of Platform Architecture[11][12][13][14]
Corrigan Neralich, Senior Director of Global Solutions Architecture[11][12][13][14]
Inngest · inngest.com · Named by Tech Funding News as a smaller rival selling event-driven durable workflows, the same job to be done for the same developer buyer.[3]
Trigger.dev · trigger.dev · Named as a rival aimed at TypeScript developers building long-running AI tasks, overlapping on the same workflow durability job.[3]
Restate · restate.dev · Named as a durable-execution challenger and cited by TechCrunch as a workflows-as-code entrant in the same category.[3][4]
Orkes · orkes.io · Cited as a competing orchestration vendor extending Conductor into agent workflows, the same buyer evaluating workflow orchestration.[2][4]
AWS Step Functions · aws.amazon.com · Cited as an established workflow system Temporal competes with, and the default option for teams already standardized on AWS.[2]
Azure Durable Functions · azure.microsoft.com · Cited as a competing workflow system; its lineage traces to the Durable Task Framework co-created by Temporal's co-founder, making it a direct substitute for Azure-centric buyers.[2]
Uber Cadence · cadenceworkflow.io · Cited as the open-source project Temporal's founders built at Uber and still listed as an alternative option for the same durable workflow job.[2]
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Edition 2Sep 16 2026current
Since edition 1
- Stage Series D to Series E
- Raised $755M to $1.2B
- Headcount 350 to 570
- New person Samar Abbas, Co-founder and CEO
- New person Maxim Fateev, Co-founder and CTO
- New person Timothy Hughes, SVP, Global Sales and Customer Success
- New person Keith Bodin, Head of Engineering, Application Platform
- New person Brandy Smith, Head of Platform Architecture
- New person Corrigan Neralich, Senior Director of Global Solutions Architecture
- New signal Temporal Cloud becomes available on Google Cloud Marketplace with pay-as-you-go pricing and a Google Gen AI SDK integration in public preview · Aug 2026
- New signal Temporal releases The State of Development 2026 report on AI agent use among 550+ engineers · Aug 2026
- New signal Bloomberg reports Temporal in talks for a round of about $500M at a valuation of at least $12B · Aug 2026
- Newly listed Temporal becomes front-of-shirt sponsor of Crystal Palace Football Club · May 2026
- Newly listed Temporal forms a Compute and AI Engineering org and brings on teams from Chkk and Adviser Labs · Apr 2026
- Sources 24 → 25 (19 new, 18 not used)
- Edition 1Jun 12 2026Earliest saved edition
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Temporal Technologies
Temporal sells an open-source durable execution platform that keeps long-running applications and AI agents running through failures, monetized through its managed Temporal Cloud service.