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Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

TechCrunch Marina Temkin 30 September 2026, 14:27 ● Covered by 2 sources

Restate, the Berlin startup building durable workflow infrastructure, raised a Series A to expand its execution engine for AI agent workflows and compete in durable infrastructure.

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Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal.

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