Temporal provides open-source software and a managed cloud service that preserve workflow state, so applications can recover from failures and finish long-running work.
Startup Funding News
New startup rounds, lead investors and the businesses behind the funding.
8 rounds · $6.1B disclosed · $215M median
| Company | Amount | Stage / sector | Lead investor | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temporal Technologies Temporal provides open-source software and a managed cloud service that preserve workflow state, so applications can recover from failures and finish long-running work. | $550M | Series C+ Developer tools | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives Growth Equity, Tiger Global | |
| DayOne Data Centers DayOne builds and operates data center campuses for cloud providers and large enterprises, including facilities designed for dense, liquid-cooled AI servers. | $4.5B | Series C+ Data centers | Coatue, Hillhouse | |
| Temporal Technologies Temporal provides open-source software and a managed cloud service that preserve workflow state, so applications can recover from failures and finish long-running work. | $300M | Series C+ Developer tools | Andreessen Horowitz | |
| Positron AI Positron builds processors and complete computing systems for running AI models, with an architecture focused on memory capacity, bandwidth and power efficiency. | $230M | Series B Semiconductors | ARENA Private Wealth, Jump Trading, Unless | |
| Inferact Inferact develops AI inference software around vLLM, the open-source engine that serves language models across different accelerators and model architectures. | $150M | Seed AI infrastructure | Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners | |
| LiveKit LiveKit provides an open-source framework and cloud infrastructure for building, deploying and monitoring real-time voice and video AI agents. | $100M | Series C+ Developer tools | Index Ventures | |
| Neurophos Neurophos develops photonic AI inference chips that use optical processing elements to perform computation, aiming to increase throughput while reducing data-center power consumption. | $110M | Series A Semiconductors | Gates Frontier | |
| Upscale AI Upscale AI develops networking silicon, systems and software that connect GPUs, accelerators, memory and storage into coordinated AI compute clusters. | $200M | Series A AI infrastructure | Tiger Global, Premji Invest, Xora Innovation |
DayOne builds and operates data center campuses for cloud providers and large enterprises, including facilities designed for dense, liquid-cooled AI servers.
Temporal provides open-source software and a managed cloud service that preserve workflow state, so applications can recover from failures and finish long-running work.
Positron builds processors and complete computing systems for running AI models, with an architecture focused on memory capacity, bandwidth and power efficiency.
Inferact develops AI inference software around vLLM, the open-source engine that serves language models across different accelerators and model architectures.
LiveKit provides an open-source framework and cloud infrastructure for building, deploying and monitoring real-time voice and video AI agents.
Neurophos develops photonic AI inference chips that use optical processing elements to perform computation, aiming to increase throughput while reducing data-center power consumption.
Upscale AI develops networking silicon, systems and software that connect GPUs, accelerators, memory and storage into coordinated AI compute clusters.
Reports & briefings
September 2026 Startup Funding Report
74 sourced rounds, with company profiles and participating investors.
Sep 21 – 27, 2026 Startup Funding Weekly
27 sourced rounds, with company profiles and participating investors.
Sep 14 – 20, 2026 Startup Funding Weekly
5 sourced rounds, with company profiles and participating investors.
Active investors
| Investor | Rounds | Led | Recent investments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01Lightspeed Venture Partners | 22 | 5 | Temporal TechnologiesNeko Health |
| 02Andreessen Horowitz | 21 | 7 | ArmadinEliseAI |
| 03Index Ventures | 20 | 6 | Temporal TechnologiesMistral AI |
| 04General Catalyst | 20 | 1 | General IntuitionDwelly |