Facts
- HQ
- United States
- Sectors
- Ridesharing, Mobility, Delivery, Transportation
- Founded
- 2009
- Employees
- 31700
- Stage
- Public
Temporal raises $550M Series E at $12.55B valuation; will open Atlanta and Bay Area offices while keeping Bellevue coworking HQ
Temporal raised $550 million in a Series E that valued the 3-year-old app development startup at $12.55 billion; it will open permanent offices in Atlanta and the Bay Area while keeping a coworking headquarters in Bellevue as it scales R&D and hiring.
Local Crew launches in Seattle to use AI-analyzed videos for no-visit home repair estimates
Seattle startup Local Crew, founded in 2026 by Saad Nadeem, uses AI to convert customer-submitted videos into structured job posts with recommended prices so homeowners can get bids without in-person estimate visits. The service aims to simplify finding and hiring local labor for tasks from yard work to house repairs, letting pros accept or counter the AI-generated offers.
Why Physical AI Is Farming's Next Frontier with Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell
In this episode of Shift AI, Paul Mikesell, CEO of Carbon Robotics, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI, lasers, and autonomy are replacing chemical weed control on farms. Carbon Robotics built a foundation model out of 150 million plant images, and Paul explains what happens when you show it a weed it has never encountered before. There's no retraining involved, and the result is something closer to a machine that understands what a plant is rather than one that's just memorized a dataset. What that actually looks like in the field, and why it took…
