The Next Web1 Oct 2026Cristian Dina

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.

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.

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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