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Temporal Technologies

Category: AI Infrastructure

Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that enables developers to build reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications and AI agent workflows. Temporal Technologies was founded in 2019. The company is led by Samar Abbas. Based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Team size: 101-500. Total funding raised: $650M. Latest round: Series D. Key investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, GIC, Madrona Venture Group, Amplify Partners, Addition Ventures, Greenoaks.

Founded
2019
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Team size
101-500
Total funding
$650M

Value proposition

Temporal provides a durable execution layer that automatically handles state management, retries, and failure recovery for distributed applications and AI agent workflows, allowing developers to write code as if failure doesn't exist.

Products and solutions

Temporal Open-Source Platform (MIT-licensed durable execution engine), Temporal Cloud (managed enterprise service), SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, PHP, C#, Ruby, Serverless Workers, Workflow Streams, Standalone Activities

Unique value

The only open-source durable execution platform that guarantees workflow completion through any failure — trusted by OpenAI, Netflix, and Snap to run mission-critical AI agent and distributed systems workloads at scale.

Target customer

Enterprise engineering teams building distributed systems, AI agent applications, and mission-critical workflows at AI labs, Fortune 500 companies, and high-growth startups

Industries served

AI/ML, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, E-commerce, HR Tech, Cloud Infrastructure

Technology advantage

Built on 20+ years of distributed systems expertise from AWS SQS/SWF, Azure Durable Functions, and Uber Cadence; 100% open-source MIT license; 99.9999% trailing 30-day uptime on Temporal Cloud; 9.1 trillion lifetime action executions; 500,000+ developer community; polyglot SDK support across 7 languages

How they differentiate

Temporal differentiates through its open-source MIT-licensed durable execution model that captures full application state at every step, enabling automatic recovery from any failure without custom error-handling code. Unlike traditional workflow engines (Camunda, Pega) or DAG frameworks, Temporal treats workflows as code with native SDKs, providing built-in retries, observability, and horizontal scalability. Its deep AI ecosystem integrations (OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Pydantic AI, Vercel) make it the de facto reliability layer for production AI agents.

Main competitors

Camunda, Trigger.dev, Inngest, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Durable Functions

Key partnerships

AWS (AWS AI Competency Partner, AWS Marketplace), Google Cloud (Google for Startups partnership, Google ADK integration), OpenAI (OpenAI Agents SDK integration), Pydantic (Pydantic AI integration), Vercel, Agentic AI Foundation (Gold Member)

Notable customers

OpenAI, Netflix, Snap (Snapchat), Stripe, Coinbase, Box, DoorDash, HashiCorp, Datadog, Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC), ADP

Major milestones

2019: Company founded by Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev, 2020: Seed ($6.75M) and Series A ($18.75M) rounds, 2022: Series B ($100M) at $1.5B valuation, 2023: Series B-Prime ($75M) with 20X revenue growth, 2025: Series C ($146M) at $1.72B valuation, Oct 2025: Secondary round ($105M) at $2.5B valuation, Feb 2026: Series D ($300M) at $5B valuation led by a16z, 2026: Joined Agentic AI Foundation as Gold Member, 9.1 trillion lifetime action executions on Temporal Cloud

Growth metrics

380%+ YoY revenue growth; 350% increase in weekly active usage; 500% increase in installations; 20M+ installs/month; 9.1 trillion lifetime action executions; 500,000+ developer community; 2,900+ customers; 552 employees (as of mid-2026)

Market positioning

Market leader in durable execution infrastructure for AI agents and distributed systems, positioned at the intersection of workflow orchestration and AI infrastructure. Valued at $5B post-Series D, with 380%+ YoY revenue growth and adoption by major AI labs (OpenAI, Replit, Lovable) and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Geographic focus

Global (headquarters in San Francisco, CA with strong presence in Seattle, WA)

About Samar Abbas

Ex-AWS (Amazon Simple Workflow Service), Ex-Microsoft (Azure Durable Task Framework), Ex-Uber (co-created Cadence); 20+ years in distributed systems engineering leadership

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