In a market obsessed with speed, Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev built a company around something most founders avoid like a tax audit: durability. And now Temporal has secured $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures in the mix, alongside returning firepower from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, GIC, Madrona, and Amplify Partners. That is not a cap table. That is a statement.
Temporal, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, is the quiet backbone behind workflows that simply refuse to die. Open source at its core, with Temporal Cloud as the managed service, the platform lets developers write workflows as code while Temporal handles the messy parts: retries, state, failures, time itself. Durable execution is not a slogan. It is infrastructure that remembers.
And the numbers read like a systems engineer’s love letter. Over 380% year over year revenue growth. Weekly active users up roughly 350%. Installations climbing 500% to more than 20M per month. Temporal Cloud has processed about 9.1T total action executions, with 1.86T coming from AI native companies. Trillion with a T. When your unit of measure is measured in trillions, you are no longer testing product market fit. You are stress testing the future.
This is what happens when 2 architects of Amazon SWF, Azure Durable Task Framework, and Uber’s Cadence decide they are done duct taping distributed systems. Samar Abbas, CEO & Co-Founder, and Maxim Fateev, CTO & Co-Founder, did not chase hype cycles. They productized battle scars. They turned hard earned operational paranoia into a platform that lets Stripe, Datadog, and Snapchat run mission critical workflows without babysitting failure states at 3 a.m.
The AI boom is loud. Agentic this, autonomous that. But agents that forget, stall, or duplicate work are not agents. They are interns with Wi Fi. Temporal is positioning itself as the adult supervision layer for AI agents moving from demo to production. When an AI agent needs to coordinate payments, approvals, or multi step processes over hours or days, someone has to keep the clock honest. Temporal keeps the clock.
There is a lesson here for builders chasing the next headline. The companies that win are not always the flashiest. They are the ones solving the problems everyone complains about but few want to own. Reliability is not glamorous until it breaks. Then it is the only thing that matters.
