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Temporal funding, valuation and investors
Durable execution platform for reliable long-running workflows and AI agent orchestration.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series D
$300M · February 2026
Latest known valuation
$5B
Series D · February 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$300M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · Seattle, Washington
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Andreessen Horowitz
Other: Lightspeed Venture Partners , Sequoia , Index Ventures , Tiger Global
Overview
Temporal provides durable execution primitives for distributed workflows — handling retries, partial failures, and state across long-running processes. The Seattle company raised $300M Series D at $5B valuation in February 2026 led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index Ventures, and Tiger Global participating per Temporal blog and Reuters. Bloomberg reported on August 18, 2026 that Temporal is in talks for about $500 million at a valuation of at least $12 billion before new money; the people said the round is not closed and details could change. Treat $5B as the last company mark. Rillet named Temporal as a customer in its August 17, 2026 Series C post.
Why Temporal is interesting
Last company mark is $5B (Feb 2026 $300M Series D, a16z). Bloomberg (Aug 18–19, 2026) said people familiar put talks at ~$500M and at least $12B pre-money — not closed. Rillet’s Aug 17 Series C named Temporal as a customer.
Product & use cases
Open-source durable execution engine and cloud platform for fault-tolerant workflows — used for payments, data pipelines, and increasingly AI agent orchestration.
- Reliable AI agent and tool-chain orchestration
- Payment and fintech workflow durability
- ETL and data pipeline fault tolerance
Key facts
- Last company round: Series D (Feb 2026) $300M at $5B led by a16z (Temporal blog/Reuters)
- Bloomberg (Aug 18, 2026): talks for ~$500M at ≥$12B pre-money — people familiar; not closed
- Named as a Rillet customer in Rillet’s Aug 17, 2026 Series C post
- Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index, Tiger among Series D participants
Funding history (newest first)
Series D
2026-02 $300M Valuation: $5BInvestors in our directory
Funds linked from Temporal's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.
Competitive landscape
Edge: Battle-tested durable execution OSS with enterprise cloud — developer adoption precedes agentic AI wave.
Workflow orchestration competes with cloud-native tools and newer durable-function startups. Temporal wins on OSS adoption and reliability primitives; cloud vendors bundle competing services.
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AWS Step Functions incumbent
Cloud-native workflow orchestration; single-vendor.
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Inngest direct
Durable functions platform; newer entrant.
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Airflow adjacent
Batch orchestration; less transactional durability.
Notable stories
- $5B valuation on reliability infra alongside flashier AI rounds.
- Agent runs as distributed workflows elevate Temporal's strategic position.
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