Braintrust
Braintrust is an artificial intelligence evaluation and observability platform.[1][2][3]
History
Braintrust was founded by Ankur Goyal in August 2023.[2][3] Goyal had previously founded the AI company Impira, which was acquired by Figma in 2022,[2] and served as Head of ML Platform at Figma.[3] Braintrust was initially incubated by angel investor Elad Gil.[2]
In December 2023, Braintrust raised $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by Greylock Partners.[3] Angel investors included Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Adam D'Angelo of Quora, and Clem Delangue of Hugging Face.[2]
In October 2024, Braintrust raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which valued the company at $150 million.[1][4] Existing investors Greylock and Elad Gil participated in the round, along with Datadog, Databricks Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Simon Last (Notion), Bryan Helmig (Zapier), and Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI).[1][4] This brought the company's total funding to $45 million.[1]
Braintrust has received coverage from Forbes,[1] TechCrunch,[2][5] VentureBeat,[3] and other technology media.[6][7] The company and its founder have been featured in extended interviews and technical discussions, including on The Peel podcast with Turner Novak,[8] Scaling DevTools,[9] No Priors with Elad Gil,[10] and the Latent Space podcast.[11] In 2025, Braintrust was named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups list[12] and Redpoint Ventures' InfraRed 100.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Konrad, Alex (2024-10-08). "AI Evaluations Startup Braintrust Valued At $150 Million In A16Z Raise". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "The hot new thing: AI platforms that stop AI's mistakes before production". TechCrunch. 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Braintrust Data offers enterprises faster way to evaluate LLMs". VentureBeat. 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Braintrust Raises $36M in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ↑ "AI startups will need 'quality of revenue' to raise in 2025, seed VCs warn". TechCrunch. 2024-11-05. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ↑ "How Braintrust Secured $36M to Solve AI's Biggest Problem That No One Talks About". AIM Research. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ↑ "Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust". Latent Space. 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
- ↑ Turner Novak (2024-06-07). "How the Smartest Companies Use AI - Ankur Goyal, Braintrust". The Peel with Turner Novak (Podcast). Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ↑ Jack Bridger (2024-11-29). "Ankur Goyal from Braintrust". Scaling DevTools (Podcast). Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ↑ Elad Gil (2024-10-08). "Launching AI products with Braintrust's CEO Ankur Goyal". No Priors (Podcast). Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ↑ "Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust". Latent Space. 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
- ↑ Feldman, Amy (2025-08-12). "Next Billion Dollar Startups 2025". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
- ↑ "InfraRed 100". Redpoint Ventures. 2025. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
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