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Temporal Technologies took $550M Series E led by Lightspeed with Wellington, Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global, explicitly for an open source platform for building and operating long-running AI agents. Below it, Ridgeline at $250M Series E for investment management, Factory at $200M for enterprise software development, Profound at $180M Series D. Crunchbase News That's where the money goes when everyone building agents hits the same reliability wall at once.
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Led by Lightspeed and Wellington with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price (Temporal). The post frames the raise around agents running for days or weeks that need to survive outages and approval waits without hand-built recovery machinery. Numbers: 1.9 tr...
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins co-led on September 15, with Lightspeed, Khosla and South Park Commons following. Founded 2024, Profound tracks how brands appear in AI-generated answers and says revenue tripled over six months across 1,000+ enterprise clients including Comcast, Es...
The $115M round led by Wellington put it at $7.1B, up $2.1B since January, with 80% of the Forbes AI 50 as customers. Clay sits on top of the CRM; Lightfield replaces it. Both got funded the same day, which is a decent read on how uncertain the direction is.
Announced August 31, exposing SFT, DPO, reward finetuning and RL across three surfaces (Fireworks). Harvey post-trained Kimi K3 into "Harvey Tenet" scoring 19.7% all-pass on LAB against 10.8% for the base model at comparable cost. Vercel reports a 93% error-free generation rat...
Announced August 27, led by Summit Partners with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo and DocuSign participating; Fravity's agentic platform becomes RiskOS_Agents, starting with watchlist screening and know-your-business checks (Crunchbase). Those are exactly the manual ana...
Harvey closed September 9 co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion, crossing $400M ARR with 3,000+ customers including 80% of the AmLaw 100 and half the Fortune 10, total raised past $1.5B. On the September 11 20VC x SaaStr episode, O'Driscoll argued the category is structurally cap...
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