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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.

braintrust.dev · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·BRAINTRUST·26
StageSeries BFebruary 2026 · led by ICONIQ Capital[1][2][6][7]
Raised$121Mdisclosed rounds[8]
Headcount169as of Oct 2026[8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[8][12]
Money

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]

People

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]

Signals
Oct 1 2026otherNotion case study: evals across 70 engineers and frontier model deployment in under 24 hours company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Oct 1 2026otherEve case study: legal AI agent quality measured with a 400-task plaintiff-law benchmark company claim, not independently confirmed[11]
Feb 17 2026fundingBraintrust raises $80M Series B led by ICONIQ at an $800M post-money valuation[1][2][6][7]
Oct 8 2024fundingBraintrust raises $36M Series A led by a16z at a reported $150M valuation, total funding to $45M[9][3][5][4]
Comps

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]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[10]

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Braintrust

CALL NO.CS·BRAINTRUST·26

Braintrust sells an AI observability platform that traces production agent runs, runs evaluations, and catches regressions before they reach users.

braintrust.dev · San Francisco

StageSeries B
Raised$121M
Headcount169
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsLangSmith +2

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