{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samar-abbas/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samar-abbas/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samar-abbas/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/samar-abbas/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "Co-founder, Temporal Technologies.\n\nSamar Abbas is CEO and co-founder of Temporal. Across some 20 years at AWS, Microsoft and Uber he worked on Amazon Simple Workflow Service from its start, led development of the Durable Task Framework at Azure and co-created Cadence, Temporal's predecessor, at Uber.\n\n## What Samar builds\n\n- [Temporal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md), graded A, 78.3/100, in Human approval \u0026 handoff. Open-source durable execution platform with SDKs in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, PHP, Ruby and Rust, run yourself or on Temporal Cloud. Co-founder, Temporal Technologies, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Maxim Fateev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/maxim-fateev/), Co-founder, Temporal Technologies\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Amplify Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amplify-partners/)\n- [Addition](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/addition/)\n- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)\n- [Madrona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/madrona/)\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n- [Greenoaks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greenoaks/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [GIC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gic/)\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)\n- [Wellington Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/wellington-management/)\n- [Goldman Sachs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/goldman-sachs/)\n- [T. Rowe Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/t-rowe-price/)\n- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)\n- [StepStone Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stepstone-group/)\n- [MongoDB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mongodb/)\n- [Conversion Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/conversion-capital/)\n- [Hanwha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hanwha/)\n- [137 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/137-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Samar Abbas?\n\nSamar Abbas is CEO and co-founder of Temporal. Across some 20 years at AWS, Microsoft and Uber he worked on Amazon Simple Workflow Service from its start, led development of the Durable Task Framework at Azure and co-created Cadence, Temporal's predecessor, at Uber.\n\n### What does Temporal Technologies make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Temporal from Temporal Technologies. Open-source durable execution platform with SDKs in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, PHP, Ruby and Rust, run yourself or on Temporal Cloud.\n\n### Who has invested in Temporal Technologies?\n\nThe sources our research read name Amplify Partners, Addition, Sequoia Capital, Madrona, Index Ventures, Greenoaks, Tiger Global, GIC, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price, SV Angel, StepStone Group, MongoDB, Conversion Capital, Hanwha and 137 Ventures.\n\n### How are Samar's tools graded?\n\nTemporal is graded A, 78.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://temporal.io/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/fateev\n- https://temporal.io/\n- https://docs.temporal.io/evaluate/cloud/support\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. 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