Braintrust, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform that enables companies to evaluate and enhance the performance of AI products, raised $36m in Series A funding at a $150m post-money valuation.
The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $45m, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Elad Gil, Greylock, and Basecase, as well as Datadog, Databricks Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Simon Last (Notion), Bryan Helmig (Zapier), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), and Arthur Mensch (Mistral).
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Braintrust is an end-to-end platform for building AI applications, which makes software development with large language models (LLMs) iterative.
The company also introduced functions, general purpose primitives that allow users to create tools, prompts, and scorers directly in their codebase, then upload them to Braintrust with a command: braintrust push. They’re available throughout its UI and API, so users can prototype, experiment, and deploy with ease—whether they’re building a RAG app or testing new prompts. Behind the scenes, the platform takes care of automatically bundling, versioning, deploying, and sandboxing the code.
FinSMEs
10/10/2024