Draft:Braintrust
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| Submission declined on 15 August 2025 by Stuartyeates (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are: Declined by Stuartyeates 2 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.