Harrison Chase
Unicorn founderCo-founder at LangChain · Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho
San Francisco, CA
FoundedLangChain$1.3B
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About
Harrison Chase open-sourced LangChain in October 2022 — an 800-line Python package that caught the ChatGPT wave to become the default way developers wire language models into applications — and built the company behind it to a $1.25 billion valuation in its October 2025 Series B led by IVP. A Harvard statistics-and-CS graduate who wrote quantitative sports analysis as a student, he led entity-linking at Kensho and the ML team at Robust Intelligence, where he met co-founder Ankush Gola. LangSmith and LangGraph turned the library into the orchestration stack for production agents, and Chase's 'context engineering' framing has become industry vocabulary.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Released LangChain as an ~800-line open-source package on October 24, 2022, and incorporated the company in January 2023 with Ankush Gola.
- Communities
- Wrote quantitative sports pieces — NBA player progression, NFL coaching analysis — for the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective as a student.
- Awards
- Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology (2024).
- More
- Met co-founder Ankush Gola when both worked at Robust Intelligence. LangChain's GitHub stars ran from 5k to 96k+ in under two years, with 28M monthly downloads by the end of 2024. Popularized 'context engineering' — the framing that when agents fail, it's usually the context, not the model.
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Co-founder at LangChain
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Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho
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Experience
- LangChainCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Robust IntelligenceMachine Learning Engineer2019 — 2023
- Kensho TechnologiesMachine Learning Engineer2017 — 2019
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Harrison ChaseEverything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack
The MAD Podcast
Building the Orchestration Layer for AI Agents
Sequoia Training Data · sequoiacap.com
The Point of LangChain
Latent Space · latent.space
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Harrison Chase?
- Harrison Chase open-sourced LangChain in October 2022 — an 800-line Python package that caught the ChatGPT wave to become the default way developers wire language models into applications — and built the company behind it to a $1.25 billion valuation in its October 2025 Series B led by IVP. A Harvard statistics-and-CS graduate who wrote quantitative sports analysis as a student, he led entity-linking at Kensho and the ML team at Robust Intelligence, where he met co-founder Ankush Gola. LangSmith and LangGraph turned the library into the orchestration stack for production agents, and Chase's 'context engineering' framing has become industry vocabulary.
- Where does Harrison Chase work?
- Harrison Chase is Co-founder of LangChain and Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho.
- What companies did Harrison Chase found?
- Harrison Chase founded LangChain.
- Where did Harrison Chase go to school?
- Harrison Chase studied at Harvard University.
- What awards has Harrison Chase received?
- Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology (2024).
- What podcasts and interviews feature Harrison Chase?
- Tracked appearances include "Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack", "Building the Orchestration Layer for AI Agents", "The Point of LangChain".
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Also worked at LangChain8
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