Temporal

temporal.io ↗added 2026-09-02

★ Fundraising pace is extremely fast: Series C to Series D in ~11 months, valuation up from $1.72B to $5B — reflects strong capital chasing the agentic-AI-infrastructure narrative more than linear revenue validation● Hiring

Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard

v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08

Career Score

—/100

Coverage

62%

Verified

17%

Stage cohort

Early

Vibe Check

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Momentum

14/16

Efficiency

unknown

Backing

5/5

Market

7.7/11

Product

8.8/11

Upside

6/8

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Latest valuation

$5B (Series D, 2026-02)

Series D · 2026-02

开发者工具工作流编排云基础设施Founded · 2019Stage · Growth (Series D)HQ · San Francisco, CA

Traction · Key numbers

营收同比增速>380% YoY revenue growth (as of 2026-02)Company's own press release; company did not disclose absolute ARR, only growth rate✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2026-02

Valuation pace$1.5B (Feb 2023) → $1.72B (Mar 2025) → $5B (Feb 2026), nearly 3x in one year✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2026-02

Customer baseUsed in production by Snap, Netflix, Box, Datadog and others for core workflow orchestration◆ Company-claimedas of 2025-10

Funding

Rounds

Valuation pace

$1.5B

$300M

Series D · 2026-02 · valuation $5B post (Series D, 2026-02) · led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

With: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global · Driven by agentic AI infrastructure demand, nearly 3x the prior round's valuation

$146M

Series C · 2025-03 · valuation $1.72B post · led by Tiger Global

With: Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital · Brought total funding to $350M

$75M

Series B extension · 2023-02 · valuation $1.5B post · led by Index Ventures

Flat valuation extension

▸Fundraising pace is extremely fast: Series C to Series D in ~11 months, valuation up from $1.72B to $5B — reflects strong capital chasing the agentic-AI-infrastructure narrative more than linear revenue validation

▸a16z led the D round, following Index Ventures and Tiger Global — a top-tier investor lineup, but also a sign valuation is narrative-driven

Founders

Maxim Fateev CTO

Led development of messaging infrastructure that became the foundation for Amazon SQS, later co-created the Cadence workflow engine with Samar Abbas at Uber

Samar Abbas CEO

Created the Azure Durable Task Framework at Microsoft, co-created Cadence with Fateev at Uber, switched from CTO to CEO in 2024

Reality · Working here

H1B / PERMUnknown

Remote policyUnknown

Comp modelUnknown

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Equity liquidityUnknown

Hiring statusCareers page lists 80+ open roles across engineering, sales, marketing and support; remote-first with San Francisco as the primary office hub◆ Company-claimed ↗as of 2026-09

Signals & Risks

CompetitorsAWS Step FunctionsApache AirflowCamundaInngest

ValuationValuation nearly tripled in a year (from $1.72B to $5B), outpacing typical infra-company revenue growth and risking a gap between hype and delivered usage

Key personCompany narrative leans heavily on just two co-founders and their prior Cadence/Amazon credibility, with limited depth beyond them

CompetitionCloud vendors (e.g. AWS Step Functions) and open-source alternatives (Airflow) keep investing in workflow orchestration, pressuring Temporal to defend its differentiation between open source and managed cloud

Editorial ✎

Good fit for

· Distributed-systems/backend infra engineers — Temporal's durable execution model genuinely solves a hard state-management problem; deep technical scope and room to grow

· People who want to build core AI-agent infrastructure rather than wrapper apps — the company is betting agentic workflows become the next big use case

· Those who like the open-source + commercial (Temporal Cloud) dual-track model and developer-led growth pace

Not for

· Those wanting short-term certainty and unable to tolerate the gap between valuation narrative and revenue proof — the company is in a phase where valuation is racing ahead of confirmed revenue

· People who want consumer-facing product or growth work — Temporal is pure developer infrastructure aimed at engineers

Ask in the interview

1. In the year valuation went from $1.72B to $5B, how much did actual ARR and net retention grow — does it support a near-3x valuation jump?

2. AWS Step Functions, Airflow and other cloud/open-source alternatives keep investing in orchestration — what specifically is Temporal's moat and how is it defended?

3. Beyond co-founders Fateev and Abbas, how developed is the second-tier engineering and go-to-market leadership?

Data changelog

Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record

2026-09-02

收入增速 filled in as >380% YoY revenue growth (as of 2026-02)

data as of 2026-02 · Source: Temporal official blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-09-02

最近一轮领投机构 filled in as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

data as of 2026-02 · Source: Temporal official blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-09-02

最近一轮估值 filled in as $5B post (Series D, 2026-02)

data as of 2026-02 · Source: Temporal official blog ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

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