# Ankur Goyal (slim)

> Ankur Goyal is founder of Braintrust. Braintrust API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder, Braintrust.

Ankur Goyal founded Braintrust, an evaluation and observability platform for AI products.

## What Ankur builds

- [Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/braintrust.md), graded C, 61.1/100, in Agent observability & evals. Hosted tracing, logging and evaluation for LLM apps and agents, with experiments, datasets, prompts, online scorers and a model gateway. Founder, Braintrust, researched 2026-10-28.

## Backed by

- [ICONIQ](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/iconiq/)
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)
- [Greylock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greylock/)
- [Elad Gil](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/elad-gil/)
- [Basecase Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/basecase-capital/)
- [Datadog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/datadog/)
- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)
- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)
- [Simon Last](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/simon-last/)
- [Bryan Helmig](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bryan-helmig/)
- [Greg Brockman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greg-brockman/)
- [Arthur Mensch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/arthur-mensch/)

## Questions

### Who is Ankur Goyal?

Ankur Goyal founded Braintrust, an evaluation and observability platform for AI products.

### What does Braintrust make?

Anchor Terminal lists Braintrust API + MCP from Braintrust.

### Who has invested in Braintrust?

The sources our research read name ICONIQ, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Elad Gil, Basecase Capital, Datadog, Databricks, Guillermo Rauch, Simon Last, Bryan Helmig, Greg Brockman and Arthur Mensch.

### How are Ankur's tools graded?

Braintrust API + MCP is graded C, 61.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.braintrust.dev/
- https://www.braintrust.dev/contact
- https://www.braintrust.dev/blog/announcing-series-b
- https://www.braintrust.dev/blog/announcing-series-a

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