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LangChain

AI Agents · Developer Infrastructure · Enterprise Software

Funding

LangChain raises $300M Series C led by CapitalG at $3B valuation

November 13, 2026

Raised

$300M

Series C

The jump from $1.25B to $3B in a year prices a private market bet, not proof demand is scaling at the same pace.

  • LangChain raised a $300 million Series C led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth fund, at a $3 billion post-money valuation.
  • LangChain builds LangSmith, a framework-agnostic platform for running, improving, and governing AI agents, used by over 7,000 organizations including Nvidia, Toyota, Salesforce, and Workday.
  • New investors GIC and DFJ Growth joined existing backers IVP and Sapphire Ventures in the round, bringing LangChain's total disclosed funding to about $460 million.
  • The $3 billion valuation is 2.4x the $1.25 billion mark LangChain set with its $125 million Series B in October 2025, led by IVP.
  • LangChain began in 2022 as an open-source framework for early LLM tasks and has since pivoted toward LangSmith, its paid agent management product, as frontier labs absorbed its original use cases.
  • CapitalG partner Mo Jomaa called the market "insanely competitive," noting that model makers and cloud providers are all building rival agent infrastructure while LangChain bets on staying model-agnostic.
  • The round signals investor conviction that enterprises will pay for agent observability and governance tooling separate from the underlying models, not just raw model access.

Lead Investors

CapitalG

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