• 02/17/2026 Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on linkedin Copy link Announcing our Investment in Temporal: Agents Make Mistakes. • Your Workflows Can’t. • One of our core beliefs as a firm is that AI has, and will continue to, significantly eat into labor TAM, leading to a proliferation of agents capable of performing work historically done by humans. • These agents need to be reliable, successfully interacting with core business processes and the external world to accomplish these tasks, and long-running. • We believe Temporal has become the de facto solution to enable these requirements; we’re thrilled to announce Lightspeed’s investment in Temporal’s $300 million Series D. • Temporal is the Durable Execution platform that many of the world’s most demanding AI systems already run on - and it’s becoming one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the agentic era.

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  • Lightspeed has invested in Temporal, backing the company’s $300 million Series D round. The firm sees Temporal’s durable execution platform as essential for AI agents that must reliably interact with business processes and the external world. Temporal records every step of a workflow, allowing it to resume after failures without developers managing retries or state. The company has reported 380 % year‑over‑year growth and over 20 million monthly installs, with users ranging from OpenAI and Replit to Fortune 500 firms such as Yum! Brands and ADP. Lightspeed views Temporal as a key infrastructure piece for scaling autonomous AI systems.
  • Temporal, a private startup founded in 2019, recently secured a Series D round led by LSVP Investment in 2026. The company specializes in an open‑source Durable Execution platform that enhances fault tolerance, durability, and simplicity for distributed applications. Its technology is adopted by high‑profile clients-including Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap, and Yum! Brands-to improve reliability, productivity, and ease of troubleshooting across their services. The Series D funding is expected to accelerate product development and expand Temporal’s enterprise footprint.

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