One year ago, I stepped into the role of CEO at Temporal, a transition that was driven by our mission to best serve the developers and organizations relying on our technology. Co-founding this company with Max has been an incredible journey, one that has allowed us to create a platform where developers can build and scale their products with confidence. As we grew, the best way to support our future was to align our leadership with our strengths. Max’s passion for innovation and product development continues to drive Temporal forward, while I wanted to tackle a new challenge of shaping our long-term vision and supporting the incredible team that makes it all happen.
Looking Back: A Year of Achievements
This past year has reinforced my belief in the power of resilience and innovation.
At Temporal, our mission is to redefine backend software engineering, making complex distributed systems manageable and reliable.
Our growth this year has been strategic and purposeful. We’ve built a leadership team with talent from top developer-focused and hyper-growth companies. I brought on Jim Cyb as President, leveraging his proven track record of scaling SaaS companies through hyper-growth at Duo Security and Zendesk. Clair Byrd joined as our CMO, bringing marketing expertise from Twilio, Sauce Labs, and InVision. Dan Rosanova came on board as VP of Product, bringing deep experience from Confluent and Microsoft Azure.
In 2024, we released Temporal Nexus, which enables teams to connect Temporal applications across Namespaces. We also released our new Ruby SDK and features for improved Worker performance and versioning. For Temporal Cloud, we added Google Cloud availability, migration tooling, features for extra high availability, and HIPAA compliance. Our .NET courses and the Code Exchange, which compile community-contributed code and sample applications, make Temporal more accessible for developers.
These milestones reflect the dedication of our team and the trust our customers place in Temporal. With the reflection of this year, reaching Series C funding was inevitable. Today, I'm thrilled to announce our Series C financing, which marks a significant step forward in our journey.
Looking Ahead: Continuing our Upward Climb
As Temporal marks its sixth year since our founding in 2019, Temporal has been adopted by more than 183,000 weekly active open source developers and has been deployed in over 7 million unique Temporal clusters, marking 600% growth in developer adoption in the last 18 months. Temporal Cloud, our hosted commercial offering, has been adopted by over 2,500 customers globally, with revenue growing 4.4x in the past 18 months and Net Dollar Retention of 184%. We've reached a remarkable inflection point in our growth journey.
With that said, I'm equally proud of the incredible adoption we've seen. Companies like Noon, Airwallex, and Verkada are now running thousands of critical workflows on our platform. This growth across both startups and global enterprises validates the approach of making distributed systems easier to build, operate, and scale.
I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, and I’m even more excited about what’s ahead. We remain committed to making distributed systems easier to build, operate, and scale, so that developers can focus on creating the future, not managing complexity.
To Max, our customers, partners, and the Temporal team, thank you. Your belief in us fuels our ambition. Here’s to another year of pushing boundaries, solving hard problems, and empowering developers to build the resilient systems that power our digital world.