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Trajectory

Trajectory provides a platform for continual learning, enabling AI models to improve continuously from real product usage and user interactions.

trajectory.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·TRAJECTORY·26
StageSeries AAugust 2026 · led by Sequoia Capital[2][5][7][16]
Raised$55Mdisclosed rounds[2][6]
Headcount12as of Aug 2026[16]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2026[2][5][16][17]
Money

Raised $55M across disclosed rounds.[2][6]

Series A closed August 2026, led by Sequoia Capital.[2][5][7][16]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Conviction, Bessemer Venture Partners, Radical VC, BoxGroup, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA.[2][3][5][6][7][9][16]

People

Ronak Malde, CEO and Co-founder[2][3][5][8][9][16][26]

Michael Elabd, Co-founder[2][3][5][8][9][16][26]

Arjun Karanam, Co-founder[2][3][5][8][9][16][26]

Signals
Aug 17 2026fundingTrajectory Raises $40M in Series A Funding at $300M Post-Money Valuation[2][4][5][7][16]
Aug 11 2026fundingTrajectory, Founded by Ex-Google and Apple Researchers, Raises Funding From Sequoia in Back-to-Back Round[1]
May 29 2026launchThe Sovereign Path for Continual Learning: Early Results on Harvey LAB with NVIDIA Nemotron company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
May 28 2026fundingTrajectory Raises $15M in Seed Funding[6][8][9]
May 27 2026fundingFormer Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop[3]
Comps

Weights & Biases · wandb.ai · Named in the same competitive landscape list for Trajectory, so a buyer evaluating a continual learning and model improvement platform would weigh W&B's experiment tracking and management tooling for the same model development workflow.[24]

Arize AI · arize.com · Listed as a Trajectory competitor; a buyer capturing production traces and telemetry to improve models would weigh Arize's production monitoring and observability for the same telemetry and model quality job.[24]

Braintrust · braintrust.dev · Listed as a Trajectory competitor; the same buyer iterating on model quality from production data would evaluate Braintrust's evaluation and iteration platform for the same eval and improvement workflow.[24]

LangChain · langchain.com · Listed as a Trajectory competitor; teams building agentic products would weigh LangChain's LLM application debugging, testing, and monitoring against Trajectory's harness and trace optimization for the same agent development workflow.[24]

Lamini · lamini.ai · Listed as a Trajectory competitor; a buyer seeking to customize and deploy models on its own data would weigh Lamini's enterprise fine-tuning and deployment platform for the same model customization job.[24]

Risk

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

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Trajectory

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Trajectory provides a platform for continual learning, enabling AI models to improve continuously from real product usage and user interactions.

trajectory.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries A
Raised$55M
Headcount12
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2026
CompsWeights & Biases +4

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