Welcome to The Stack’s weekly round-up of the latest startups, scaleups, and funding news. (Want us to include your milestone in the next wrap-up? Get it to Noah Bovenizer here with the story in 50 words or fewer.)
The complexity of building backend logic predates the current AI agent era, but the rollout of agents has exacerbated the problem for many enterprises. Durable execution startup Restate also predates the agent era, but has found a new life with companies building agentic systems.
After raising $20 million for its Series A, co-founder Stephan Ewen spoke to The Stack for this week's STACKUP about building robust distributed backends, why its platform was ready for AI agents, and learning from building Apache Flink.
Also this week, security continues to be a focal point for AI VC investment, with big rounds for Armadin, and Reco, personal AI agent platform Instinct raised another $1 billion despite remaining in early access, and news from startups developing interconnect, AI cost management, and voice AI technology.
