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Date Published
Author
Allanah Hughes
Word count
642
Language
English
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Summary

Temporal has successfully completed a secondary funding round, raising $105 million and increasing its valuation to $2.5 billion, reflecting the confidence investors have in its future and its Durable Execution technology. This funding, led by GIC with participation from Tiger Global and Index Ventures, follows a $146 million Series C round and highlights Temporal's rapid growth in enterprise adoption across industries such as FinTech, e-commerce, and AI. The company emphasizes the importance of its community of developers and aims to further enhance its team, focusing on making distributed systems simpler and more reliable. Temporal is particularly relevant in the age of AI, offering solutions for the orchestration challenges in AI applications, ensuring critical workflows complete successfully. The company has also strengthened its leadership by appointing John Bonney as Chief Financial Officer and Jonathan Chadwick to its Board of Directors, both bringing extensive experience in scaling software companies. Temporal plans to use the new funding to expand its cloud offerings, grow its developer community, and continue its mission to make reliability a default feature in software development.