Braintrust Raises $36M in Series A Funding at $150M Valuation

Braintrust is focused on revolutionizing the AI development process by providing seamless tools for companies to build, test, and enhance AI applications.

Company Name: Braintrust
Location: San Francisco, CA
Sector: AI Development, Software
Funding Details: Raised $36 million in Series A funding, bringing total funding to $45 million. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Elad Gil, Greylock, Basecase, Datadog, Databricks Ventures, and notable angels such as Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Simon Last (Notion), Bryan Helmig (Zapier), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), and Arthur Mensch (Mistral).

Purpose of Investment: The funds will be used to expand operations and enhance product development.

Product and Innovation: Braintrust provides an end-to-end platform for building and evaluating AI products, particularly focusing on making software development with large language models (LLMs) more iterative and efficient. Its platform allows users to prototype, experiment, and deploy AI applications with ease, thanks to its user-friendly UI and API integrations.

A key feature introduced by Braintrust is functions, general-purpose primitives that let developers create tools, prompts, and scorers directly in their codebase. These functions can be uploaded to Braintrust via a simple command, streamlining the process of versioning, deploying, and sandboxing code automatically.

About the Company: Braintrust is focused on revolutionizing the AI development process by providing seamless tools for companies to build, test, and enhance AI applications. Its platform is designed to reduce complexity and speed up the development cycle for AI products, making it an essential tool for businesses working with large language models and other AI systems.