--- title: Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when... description: Berlin-based Restate, founded by the creators of Apache Flink, raised a $20m Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails | daily.dev og:description: Berlin-based Restate, founded by the creators of Apache Flink, raised a $20m Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/khYK7m5qi.png og:image:alt: Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Berlin-based Restate, founded by the creators of Apache Flink, raised a $20m Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, bringing total funding to $27m. Restate sells durable execution infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through crashes, restarts, or dropped connections, using its own distributed log rather than a general-purpose database. Replit moved its Replit Agent onto Restate, with the new design using over 10 times as many durable actions as before. Restate competes with Temporal, which raised a $550m Series E at a $12.55bn valuation in September. The funds will go toward a go-to-market team, more engineers, and a new San Francisco commercial hub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is durable execution and why do AI agents need it? Durable execution is infrastructure that records what a program has already done so it can continue correctly after a crash, restart, or dropped connection. AI agents need this because they run for extended periods and call models, tools, APIs, and other agents along the way, creating many points where failures can lose progress without a durable execution layer tracking state. _Developers evaluating reliability patterns for long-running agents can track infrastructure shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### How much funding has Restate raised and who led its Series A? Restate raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, bringing its total funding to $27m. The Berlin startup was founded in 2022 by Apache Flink co-creator Stephan Ewen along with Igal Shilman and Till Rohrmann, with former Stripe and Meta engineer Ahmed Farghal joining as a fourth co-founder alongside the raise. _Engineers weighing infrastructure vendors in the agent space follow funding signals like this on daily.dev._ ### Why did Replit move its Replit Agent onto Restate instead of Temporal? Replit moved its Replit Agent onto Restate for durable orchestration, and the redesigned agent now uses over 10 times as many durable actions as the previous version. Replit's president and head of AI, Michele Catasta, said Restate now handles all durable orchestration at Replit, giving the team flexibility to rapidly expand the agent platform's capabilities. _Teams comparing Restate against Temporal for agent orchestration can follow real adoption cases on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents](https://daily.dev/posts/restate-lands-20m-as-the-need-for-durable-infrastructure-increases-with-ai-agents-qsvj6knml) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Temporal raises $550m at $12.55bn to keep AI agents from failing](https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-raises-550m-at-12-55bn-to-keep-ai-agents-from-failing-ur03ardr6) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February](https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-is-in-talks-to-raise-500mn-at-a-12bn-valuation-double-february-xvgxvjlll) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi"},"datePublished":"2026-10-01T15:10:21.797Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T15:10:43.011Z","description":"Berlin-based Restate, founded by the creators of Apache Flink, raised a $20m Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eb9884c1e2d75025fdcc8f57853ea064?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eb9884c1e2d75025fdcc8f57853ea064?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,venture-capital","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/restate-raises-20m-to-keep-ai-agents-running-when-software-fails-khyk7m5qi#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is durable execution and why do AI agents need it?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Durable execution is infrastructure that records what a program has already done so it can continue correctly after a crash, restart, or dropped connection. 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