Langchain

langchain.com ↗added 2026-06-19

★ Strategic investors (ServiceNow/Workday/Cisco/Datadog/Databricks) are both endorsement and distribution channels● Hiring

TL;DR中文

Open source起家的经典案例：LangChain框架几乎是每个做AI应用的人的第一站，靠LangSmith（observability/eval平台）变现。distribution极强，但收入规模相比估值还有很大差距——是这个list里"故事 vs. 数字"gap最明显的一家。

Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard

v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08

Career Score

56/100

Coverage

95%

Verified

Stage cohort

Early

Vibe Check

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Momentum

8.6/16

Efficiency

6.2/20

Backing

7/8

Market

6.6/11

Product

7.7/11

Upside

7.7/12

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Latest valuation

$1.25B（post-money，2025年10月Series B）

Series B · 2025-10

ARR

约$16M ARR

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2025-10

Total raised

~$260M

as of 2025-10

Team size

第三方口径不一：Tracxn显示369人

figures vary

DevToolsAI InfraAgent框架Founded · 2023 (open-source project started in 2022)Stage · Series B ($1.25B)HQ · Primarily SFSize · 第三方口径不一：Tracxn显示369人（截至2026-06-30）

Traction · Key numbers

ARR约$16M ARR（2025年，较2024年的$8.5M增长）与fixture现有Sacra口径（~$12-16M，2025-06）方向一致但来源不同、时间点更新；Getlatka是订阅制第三方数据商，方法论未披露，建议保留为estimate。公司自己在2025-10 Series B公告里只说LangSmith月度trace量同比涨12倍，未披露具体ARR数字（来源：https://www.langchain.com/blog/series-b）。~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2025-10

Community scale50k+ companies have used it✓ Publicly verifiableas of 2026-07

收入增速约1.9倍（YoY，$8.5M→$16M，2024→2025）同ARR字段，来自同一第三方估算，未经公司独立确认。~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2025-10

Funding

Total raised

~$260M

Rounds

$125M

Series B · 2025-10 · valuation $1.25B（post-money，2025年10月Series B） · led by IVP

With: Sequoia, Benchmark, Amplify, CapitalG（新进）, Sapphire（新进）, ServiceNow, Workday, Cisco, Datadog, Databricks · The strategic investor lineup is telling — ServiceNow, Workday, Cisco, Datadog, and Databricks all came in

$25M

Series A · 2023-04 · led by Sequoia

One week after the seed round

$10M

Seed · 2023-04 · led by Benchmark

▸Strategic investors (ServiceNow/Workday/Cisco/Datadog/Databricks) are both endorsement and distribution channels

▸One week after Benchmark's seed round, Sequoia put in a $25M Series A

Founders

Harrison Chase CEO

Started LangChain as an open-source project in 2022; incorporated the company in April 2023

Ankush Gola Co-founder

Co-founder

Reality · Working here

H1B / PERM2025财年公开可查至少11份H1B LCA申请（Software Engineer、Product Manager、Site Reliability Engineer、Product Designer等岗位），主要在San Francisco，工资中位数区间约$150K-$213K另一家聚合站h1bgrader.com给出的口径是'6份LCA、4份H1B petition，均获批'——具体数字两家不完全一致（可能统计周期或数据源快照不同），但方向一致：LangChain是活跃的H1B担保方，规模不大但稳定。h1bgrader.com的原始页面本次抓取返回403无法直接核实，故仅采用能成功抓取验证的h1bdata.info数字。✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2025

Remote policy非remote-first，以线下办公室为主：截至2026年8月公司官方招聘页11个在招职位中，9个明确标注on-site（SF/Boston/New York），仅1个remote，1个未注明补充fixture现有'SF为主'的描述——目前实际的办公室枢纽已扩展到Boston和New York，不只是SF；且绝大多数岗位要求on-site，remote岗位是少数例外。✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2026-08

Comp modelBase+bonus+股票的混合薪酬结构；据Levels.fyi员工自报数据，各岗位总薪酬中位数约$172K，跨度从Sales约$132K到工程管理约$259KLevels.fyi数据为员工自愿自报，样本量和口径未经审计，仅供参考；公司未公开薪酬带宽或股权比例政策。~ 3rd-party estimate ↗as of 2026-08

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Equity liquidityUnknown

Hiring status持续在招，截至2026年8月官方职位页有11个公开职位，集中在SF、Boston、New York，以工程（OSS/Observability）和GTM（企业销售）岗位为主fixture现有hiring字段只写'SF为主'；实际招聘地图已包含Boston、New York两个新枢纽，反映LangSmith/Observability产品线的团队扩张。✓ Publicly verifiable ↗as of 2026-08

·You build what developers use every day, so the work is highly visible externally — open-source contributions and technical blogging are personal brand you take with you

·Developer sentiment has always been polarized (a reputation for 'over-abstraction')

Signals & Risks

CustomersReplitClayHarveyRipplingCloudflareWorkdayCiscoJPMorganBlackRock

CompetitorsLlamaIndexIn-house frameworksFoundation model vendors building up the stack themselves (OpenAI/Anthropic agent SDKs and eval tools)Observability: Datadog, Braintrust, W&B

Valuation$1.25B on ~$16M ARR is ~78x — one of the highest multiples on this list, priced entirely on future monetization

MonetizationOpen source → commercial conversion has always been hard (HashiCorp and Docker hit the same challenge)

Platform riskSits in the position most easily squeezed from both sides: model vendors building up, cloud providers building down; its value rests precisely on filling gaps the model vendors haven't covered — and that gap keeps shrinking

Community sentiment'LangChain is too heavy — easier to write it yourself' has been a persistent refrain; many teams prototype with it and swap it out in production

Editorial ✎

Good fit for

· People who love open source and want to be deeply involved in defining the agent engineering paradigm

· People who want to build industry influence — resume value this strong is rare

Ask in the interview

1. Be mentally prepared: product direction may shift frequently as foundation model capabilities evolve

Data changelog

Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record

2026-08-08

Remote 政策 filled in as 非remote-first，以线下办公室为主：截至2026年8月公司官方招聘页11个在招职位中，9个明确标注on-site（SF/Boston/New York），仅1个remote，1个未注明

data as of 2026-08 · Source: LangChain Careers (Ashby job board) ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-08-08

最近一轮领投机构 filled in as IVP

data as of 2025-10 · Source: TechCrunch ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-08-08

最近一轮估值 filled in as $1.25B（post-money，2025年10月Series B）

data as of 2025-10 · Source: LangChain官方博客 ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-08-08

招聘状态 filled in as 持续在招，截至2026年8月官方职位页有11个公开职位，集中在SF、Boston、New York，以工程（OSS/Observability）和GTM（企业销售）岗位为主

data as of 2026-08 · Source: LangChain Careers (Ashby job board) ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-08-08

团队规模 filled in as 第三方口径不一：Tracxn显示369人（截至2026-06-30）

data as of 2026-06 · Source: Tracxn ↗

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗

2026-08-08

H1B / 签证担保政策 filled in as 2025财年公开可查至少11份H1B LCA申请（Software Engineer、Product Manager、Site Reliability Engineer、Product Designer等岗位），主要在San Francisco，工资中位数区间约$150K-$213K

data as of 2025 · Source: h1bdata.info (DOL LCA disclosure data) ↗

✓ Publicly verifiable ↗

2026-08-08

薪酬模式 filled in as Base+bonus+股票的混合薪酬结构；据Levels.fyi员工自报数据，各岗位总薪酬中位数约$172K，跨度从Sales约$132K到工程管理约$259K

data as of 2026-08 · Source: Levels.fyi ↗

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗

2026-08-08

收入增速 filled in as 约1.9倍（YoY，$8.5M→$16M，2024→2025）

data as of 2025-10 · Source: Getlatka ↗

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗

2026-08-08

ARR / 年化收入 filled in as 约$16M ARR（2025年，较2024年的$8.5M增长）

data as of 2025-10 · Source: Getlatka ↗

~ 3rd-party estimate ↗

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Sponsorship

✓ Publicly verifiable · government data

H-1B recent sponsorship activity Latest

DOL LCA Disclosure Data · FY2024 – FY2026 Q2 ↗

Fiscal year	LCAs certified	Positions	Avg salary
FY2026	4	4	$186k
FY2025	4	4	$173k

✓ Langchain has been filing LCAs for H-1B roles recently — actively sponsoring. An LCA is the required first step of an H-1B petition — the most direct public signal of whether a company sponsors right now.

H-1B approval history

USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub · FY2021–2023 ↗

No approvals in FY2021–2023. Most companies on the list were founded after 2022, so missing early records is normal — it doesn't mean they don't sponsor today. Confirm in interviews, or ask insiders in the group.

PERM green cards

DOL PERM Disclosure Data · FY2025 – FY2026 Q2（至2026年3月） ↗

No records for this company in the imported PERM data. Green-card processes usually start once a company matures.

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