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

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September 30, 2026, 2:27 PM

• •Restate, a Berlin startup founded in 2022, raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures.
• •The company sells durable workflow infrastructure designed to keep multistep processes running reliably through crashes and network interruptions, a capability it says fits AI agent workloads well.
• •CEO Stephan Ewen said Restate has recently signed multiple six- and seven-figure customer contracts and counts Replit among its customers.
• •Restate built its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers instead of relying on an external database, which Ewen says makes the system faster and lighter.
• •The startup plans to use the funding to expand go-to-market hiring, add engineers, and grow its San Francisco Bay Area office.

Restate, a Berlin startup building durable workflow infrastructure, has raised a $20 million Series A led by Singular. The company says its software helps multistep processes recover from crashes and interruptions, making it useful for AI agent workloads that are long-running and unpredictable. CEO Stephan Ewen said demand has accelerated, with several recent six- and seven-figure customer contracts and customers including Replit. Restate plans to use the new funding to hire go-to-market and engineering staff and expand its Bay Area presence as it competes with larger rival Temporal.

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