AI Funding & Investment

LangChain Reportedly Raising New Round at $1B Valuation as Demand for LLM Infrastructure Grows

AI infrastructure startup LangChain is reportedly finalizing a new funding round led by IVP, valuing the company at approximately $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. Founded by Harrison Chase in 2022, LangChain gained early traction by offering developers open-source tools to build and extend large language model (LLM) applications with external data, APIs, and databases.

To stay competitive amid rapid API advancements from OpenAI and others, LangChain introduced LangSmith, a proprietary platform for evaluating, monitoring, and debugging LLM-powered agents. LangSmith has quickly become a core revenue driver, with reported annual recurring revenue between $12 million and $16 million and adoption by major companies like Klarna, Rippling, and Replit.

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Okta to Acquire AI Identity Security Startup Permiso Security for Nearly $200M

Okta has agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as