A reported $500mn round at $12bn pre-money values the workflow engine at roughly seven times its March 2025 mark. The revenue figure behind it is nine months old.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.
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- Builder 26%
- Operator
- Operator 23%
- Investor
- Investor 51%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Temporal closed a $550 million round at a $12.55 billion valuation, roughly 50 times the revenue it reports. The product it sells exists to remember which step of a crashed job already ran.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence61
Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
The Information puts SoftBank in talks for a majority stake in 1X. The shipment boom cited as context belongs mostly to two Chinese firms, and 1X is not one of them.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+44
- Incentives63
- Confidence48
The company says it is past $500 million in recurring revenue at roughly 16.6 times that figure. What the multiple buys is written into contracts cities have started reopening.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption79
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence56
One officer logged more than 700 unauthorized searches on his estranged wife's car. The feature that made that possible is the one a16z and Tiger paid about 16 times revenue for.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption86
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
- Confidence60
A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives70
- Confidence54