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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.

temporal.io · Bellevue

CALL NO.CS·TEMPORAL·26
StageSeries ESeptember 2026 · led by Lightspeed Venture Partners[1][2][3][9]
Raised$1.2Bdisclosed rounds[1][3]
Headcount570as of Sep 2026[1][2][9]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2019[1][2][8]
Money

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]

People

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]

Signals
Aug 31 2026launchTemporal Cloud becomes available on Google Cloud Marketplace with pay-as-you-go pricing and a Google Gen AI SDK integration in public preview company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
Aug 25 2026otherTemporal releases The State of Development 2026 report on AI agent use among 550+ engineers company claim, not independently confirmed[8][9]
Aug 19 2026newsBloomberg reports Temporal in talks for a round of about $500M at a valuation of at least $12B[5]
May 21 2026newsTemporal becomes front-of-shirt sponsor of Crystal Palace Football Club[8][12]
Apr 30 2026hiringTemporal forms a Compute and AI Engineering org and brings on teams from Chkk and Adviser Labs[11][12]
Comps

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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Temporal Technologies

CALL NO.CS·TEMPORAL·26

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.

temporal.io · Bellevue

StageSeries E
Raised$1.2B
Headcount570
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2019
CompsInngest +6