Why Braintrust matters
Braintrust raises an $80M Series B led by ICONIQ Capital at an $800M valuation on February 17, 2026, with Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock returning; total funding reaches $121M. Founder Ankur Goyal previously led the machine learning platform at Figma after co-founding Impira. The company positions the product as the observability layer for AI, covering evals in CI, production tracing and prompt versioning.
The numberRaised $80M Series B led by ICONIQ at an $800M valuation on February 17, 2026
On The Agentic 80
Listed under Agent frameworks and infrastructure. What agents are built on: orchestration, tools, memory, evals, sandboxes.
Quick answers
- What does Braintrust do?
- Evaluation, tracing and prompt-management platform for teams shipping LLM products and agents. Braintrust raises an $80M Series B led by ICONIQ Capital at an $800M valuation on February 17, 2026, with Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock returning; total funding reaches $121M.
- What AI capabilities does Braintrust offer?
- Braintrust offers a platform for evaluating, tracing, and managing prompts in LLM products and agents. Teams log production traces, build datasets, score model outputs with code or human review, and compare prompt or model experiments side by side. The tools help product and engineering groups find failures, track quality over time, and decide which changes to release.
- Why is Braintrust on The Agentic 80?
- Braintrust is listed under Agent frameworks and infrastructure. What agents are built on: orchestration, tools, memory, evals, sandboxes. Raised $80M Series B led by ICONIQ at an $800M valuation on February 17, 2026.
- Where is Braintrust based, and who owns it?
- Braintrust is based in San Francisco, CA, was founded in 2023 and is private, Series B.