Ankush Gola
As of October 2026, Ankush Gola is a co-founder of LangChain, an open-source toolkit for building data-aware applications on top of LLMs. He earned a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2015, and he worked as a software engineer at Facebook from 2015 to 2019. In early 2023 he teamed up with Harrison Chase to start LangChain, the company. LangChain announced a $125 million Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation in 2025. He wrote the LangChain blog post on SmithDB, the data layer for agent observability, in May 2026.
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Timeline
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2015
An electrical engineering degree
He receives a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2015.
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2015–2019
Software engineering at Facebook
From 2015 to 2019, he works as a software engineer at Facebook.
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2023
Co-founding LangChain
He teams up with Harrison Chase to start LangChain, the company, in early 2023.
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2024
An open-source LLM toolkit
He and Harrison Chase design an open-source toolkit for building data-aware applications on top of LLMs.
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2025
A $1.25 billion valuation
LangChain, which he co-founded with Harrison Chase, announces a $125 million Series B at a $1.25 billion valuation in 2025.
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May 2026
A post on SmithDB
He writes the LangChain blog post on SmithDB, the data layer for agent observability.
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As of October 2026
Co-founder of LangChain
He is a co-founder of LangChain, which he and Harrison Chase started in early 2023.
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- Report: LangChain Business Breakdown & Founding Story
- About LangChain: an open platform to own your intelligence
- Partnering with LangChain: The LLM Application Framework
- Early AI darling LangChain is now a unicorn with a fresh $125 million in funding
- We built SmithDB, the data layer for agent observability