Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails
Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m.
“It never was built for agents in the beginning, but it just happened to be a perfect match for all these problems that agents surface,” Stephan Ewen, its CEO, told TechCrunch.
What durable execution does
Restate sells durable execution. The software records what a program has already done. That lets it carry on correctly after a crash, a restart or a dropped connection. AI agents make this harder, the company says. They run for longer and call models, tools, APIs and other agents along the way.
Restate does not build on a general-purpose database....
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