A venture capital analyst lists 12 early-stage AI infrastructure and blockchain projects with open waitlists, claiming they represent opportunities ahead of institutional investment. Projects span full duplex AI models, decentralized derivatives platforms, prediction markets, and tokenized assets, with most backed by tier-one venture firms.
Temporal, a durable execution platform for AI agents and distributed systems, raised $550M in Series E funding at a $12.55B valuation. The company addresses the challenge of running long-lived AI agents reliably, with customers including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and JPMorgan Chase, achieving 200%+ year-over-year revenue growth and processing 1.9 trillion actions monthly.