Braintrust
Braintrust sells an AI observability platform that traces production agent runs, runs evaluations, and catches regressions before they reach users.
Raised $121M across disclosed rounds.[8]
Series B closed February 2026, led by ICONIQ Capital.[1][2][6][7]
post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.
Named investors include Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Capital, Greylock, Elad Gil, Basecase Capital, Datadog, Databricks Ventures.[9][5][2][6]
Ankur Goyal, Founder & CEO[12][8][6]
Eden Halperin, VP Product and Design[8][12]
Bryan Cox, Vice President of Worldwide Sales[8][12]
Alex Carleton, Head of Customer Experience[8][12]
Ameya Bhatawdekar, VP, Field CTO[8][12]
LangSmith · langchain.com · Same buyer and same job: AI engineering teams choosing a tracing and eval layer for LLM and agent applications. Included as the closest direct alternative in the LLM observability slice; no cited source in this ledger names it, so treat as category-level...[2][4]
Datadog LLM Observability · datadoghq.com · Datadog is both an investor in Braintrust's Series A and the incumbent whose general-purpose monitoring Braintrust argues cannot handle agent trace volume, so the same buyer with an existing Datadog budget is the displacement decision.[9][2]
Tsuga · tsuga.io · Same job to be done and same incumbent to displace: a venture-funded observability challenger explicitly positioned against Datadog, the same incumbent whose monitoring budget Braintrust targets, so a buyer evaluating a new observability layer would weigh...[19]
The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[10]
Ask for one referenceable production customer.
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Edition 2Oct 1 2026current
Since edition 1
- Headcount 136 to 169
- New person Eden Halperin, VP Product and Design
- New person Alex Carleton, Head of Customer Experience
- No longer listed Morgane Palomares, VP Of Marketing
- New signal Notion case study: evals across 70 engineers and frontier model deployment in under 24 hours · Oct 2026
- New signal Eve case study: legal AI agent quality measured with a 400-task plaintiff-law benchmark · Oct 2026
- Newly listed Braintrust raises $36M Series A led by a16z at a reported $150M valuation, total funding to $45M · Oct 2024
- Sources 28 → 32 (15 new, 12 not used)
- Edition 1Jun 24 2026Earliest saved edition
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Braintrust
Braintrust sells an AI observability platform that traces production agent runs, runs evaluations, and catches regressions before they reach users.
Ask for one referenceable production customer.
Not a recommendation. The first thing this ledger cannot answer.