Draft:Braintrust
Submission declined on 24 August 2025 by Caleb Stanford (talk). Please respond to my comment below.
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Submission declined on 15 August 2025 by Stuartyeates (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that:
Declined by Stuartyeates 11 months ago.
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Comment: May be notable, thanks for not going overboard on this submission. We're going to need 3 sources that pass WP:NCORP. Forbes 1 is written by former staff, so that's 1. No consensus on if TechCrunch and VentureBeat are reliable. TechCrunch 2 is passing mention, Forbes list is passing mention. Is there a second and third article that will clearly qualify beyond the first Forbes? Caleb Stanford (talk) 14:59, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: We need multiple independent secondary sources with in depth coverage. These appear to be lacking here. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:00, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article. Ornella94107 (talk) 22:21, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
Braintrust is an artificial intelligence evaluation and observability platform.[1][2][3]
History
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Konrad, Alex (2024-10-08). "AI Evaluations Startup Braintrust Valued At $150 Million In A16Z Raise". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ a b c d e f "The hot new thing: AI platforms that stop AI's mistakes before production". TechCrunch. 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ a b c d e "Braintrust Data offers enterprises faster way to evaluate LLMs". VentureBeat. 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
- ^ a b "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.