Temporal Technologies, the developer tools company behind a popular open-source workflow platform, is reportedly in talks to raise about $500M in a round that could value it above $12B.
Bloomberg, citing sources, reported the potential raise on Tuesday. That valuation would be more than double what the company was worth after its previous round in February.
Temporal’s software helps enterprise applications recover from crashes without losing work. When a multi-step task fails midway, the platform keeps a chronological log of every action so the workload can resume from the last completed step instead of starting over.
That capability is especially valuable for AI agents, some of which run tasks that take weeks. Resuming from the last successful step can save days, and Temporal’s Namespaces let developers isolate workloads while its Nexus module moves data between them securely.
The company makes money from Temporal Cloud, a paid service with disaster recovery and autoscaling features layered on top of the open-source core.
A $500M round would cement Temporal as one of the most valuable independent companies in developer infrastructure, a category that has drawn heavy investment as enterprises build agent-based software.