# Harrison Chase

> Harrison Chase is co-founder and CEO. LangGraph, LangMem and LangSmith API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and CEO.

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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-chase-961287118/

## What Harrison builds

- [LangGraph](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph.md), graded BB, 70.8/100, in 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 2026-10-26.
- [LangMem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.md), graded D, 48.3/100, in 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 2026-10-27.
- [LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.md), graded BB, 71.3/100, in 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 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Ankush Gola](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ankush-gola/), Co-founder
- [John Kennedy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-kennedy/), LangChain security engineer; recent LangMem dependency-maintenance contributor
- [William Fu-Hinthorn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/william-fu-hinthorn/), LangMem-associated founding engineer; current affiliation disputed

## Backed by

- [IVP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ivp/)
- [Benchmark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/benchmark/)
- [Sequoia Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sequoia-capital/)
- [Amplify Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amplify-partners/)
- [CapitalG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capitalg/)
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)
- [ServiceNow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/servicenow/)
- [Workday](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/workday/)
- [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/)
- [Datadog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/datadog/)
- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)
- [Frontline Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/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

- 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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