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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Restate GmbH.\n\nStephan Ewen co-founded Restate, a durable execution engine for writing workflows and services as code. He was on the founding team of the Apache Flink stream-processing project in 2010, became CTO of Data Artisans, the company built around Flink, and stayed after Alibaba bought it in 2019 and renamed it Ververica.\n\n## What Stephan builds\n\n- [Restate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/restate.md), graded BB, 74.5/100, in Human approval \u0026 handoff. Durable execution runtime from Restate GmbH in Berlin, run as Restate Cloud, in the customer's own cloud account or self-hosted. Handlers pause on durable promises (awakeables and signals) and resume when a person answers over HTTP. Co-founder, Restate GmbH, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ahmed Farghal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ahmed-farghal/), Co-founder, Restate GmbH\n- [Igal Shilman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/igal-shilman/), Co-founder, Restate GmbH\n- [Till Rohrmann](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/till-rohrmann/), Co-founder, Restate GmbH\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Singular](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/singular/)\n- [Redpoint Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/redpoint-ventures/)\n- [Capital One](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capital-one/)\n- [Essence VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/essence-vc/)\n- [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/)\n- [Jay Kreps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jay-kreps/)\n- [Michele Catasta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/michele-catasta/)\n- [Neha Narkhede](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neha-narkhede/)\n- [Olivier Pomel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/olivier-pomel/)\n- [Calvin French-Owen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/calvin-french-owen/)\n- [Chris Schagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/chris-schagen/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Stephan Ewen?\n\nStephan Ewen co-founded Restate, a durable execution engine for writing workflows and services as code. He was on the founding team of the Apache Flink stream-processing project in 2010, became CTO of Data Artisans, the company built around Flink, and stayed after Alibaba bought it in 2019 and renamed it Ververica.\n\n### What does Restate GmbH make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Restate from Restate GmbH. Durable execution runtime from Restate GmbH in Berlin, run as Restate Cloud, in the customer's own cloud account or self-hosted. Handlers pause on durable promises (awakeables and signals) and resume when a person answers over HTTP.\n\n### Who has invested in Restate GmbH?\n\nThe sources our research read name Singular, Redpoint Ventures, Capital One, Essence VC, Amjad Masad, Jay Kreps, Michele Catasta, Neha Narkhede, Olivier Pomel, Calvin French-Owen and Chris Schagen.\n\n### How are Stephan's tools graded?\n\nRestate is graded BB, 74.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://restate.dev/about\n- https://restate.dev/\n- https://restate.dev/contact\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. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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