Founder of a listed tool
Harrison Chase
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Harrison builds
LangGraph BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
Low-level runtime for long-running, stateful agent graphs with checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop, memory and streaming.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
LangMem D · Agent memory
LangMem is LangChain's open-source Python library for long-term agent memory. It extracts facts from conversations with an LLM, stores and searches them in a LangGraph store the owner runs, and includes two memory tools, message summarisation and prompt optimisation.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
LangSmith API + MCP BB · Agent observability & evals
LangChain's hosted tracing, evaluation, prompt hub and dataset platform, framework-agnostic with Python and TypeScript SDKs and OpenTelemetry ingest.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Ankush Gola Co-founder
- John Kennedy LangChain security engineer; recent LangMem dependency-maintenance contributor
- William Fu-Hinthorn LangMem-associated founding engineer; current affiliation disputed
Backed by
IVP Benchmark Sequoia Capital Amplify Partners CapitalG Sapphire Ventures ServiceNow Workday Cisco Investments Datadog Databricks Frontline Ventures
Questions
Who is Harrison Chase?
Harrison Chase is co-founder and CEO of LangChain, which began as his open-source side project in late 2022 and became a company with Ankush Gola in early 2023. He was previously a machine learning engineer at Kensho Technologies and worked on testing and validating ML models at Robust Intelligence.
What does LangChain make?
Anchor Terminal lists LangGraph, LangMem and LangSmith API + MCP from LangChain. Low-level runtime for long-running, stateful agent graphs with checkpointed persistence, human-in-the-loop, memory and streaming.
Who has invested in LangChain?
The sources our research read name IVP, Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, Amplify Partners, CapitalG, Sapphire Ventures, ServiceNow, Workday, Cisco Investments, Datadog, Databricks and Frontline Ventures.
How are Harrison's tools graded?
LangGraph is graded BB, 70.8 out of 100; LangMem is graded D, 48.3 out of 100; LangSmith API + MCP is graded BB, 71.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- https://www.langchain.com/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-chase-961287118/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankush-gola-77255866/
- https://www.langchain.com/
- https://support.langchain.com/
- https://www.langchain.com/support-plans
- https://github.com/hinthornw
- https://pypi.org/project/langmem/
- https://x.com/WHinthorn
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem/commits/main/
- https://github.com/jkennedyvz
- https://www.langchain.com
- https://github.com/langchain-ai/langmem
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