Braintrust Data, Inc. is a San Francisco company that builds an evaluation and observability platform for LLM applications and AI agents. Founder Ankur Goyal previously built Impira, acquired by Figma, and database systems at SingleStore; he co-founded Braintrust with Coleen Baik and Manu Goyal, incubated with Elad Gil. It launched publicly on September 28, 2023 as an enterprise stack for shipping AI products, with seed funding led by Elad Gil and Base Case Capital.
The platform now centers on active observability for agents, organized as trace inspection (Observe), evals (Evaluate), and pattern discovery (Discover) on its Brainstore database, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, and C#. Named production customers include Notion, Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Ramp, Dropbox, Replit, Box, and OpenAI. It raised a $36M Series A in October 2024 led by Andreessen Horowitz and an $80M Series B in February 2026 led by ICONIQ, reported at an $800M valuation.