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Harrison Chase

Unicorn founder

Co-founder at LangChain · Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho

San Francisco, CA

FoundedLangChain$1.3B

30 Under 30 2024 · Enterprise Technology

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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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Co-founders at LangChain

AGAnkush Gola
Ankush GolaCo-founder

Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho

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Co-founders at Kensho

DNDaniel Nadler
Daniel NadlerExecutive Officer, Director
PK
Peter KruskallExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

  1. LangChainCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Robust IntelligenceMachine Learning Engineer2019 — 2023
  3. Kensho TechnologiesMachine Learning Engineer2017 — 2019

Skills & more

Machine Learning12Sports Analysis4Statistics10Data Science9Python3Python (Programming Language)4

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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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