Menlo Park, United States
Growth-stage venture capital firm. Lead investor in LangChain's $125M Series B.
AI inference startup Baseten has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, with Nvidia investing $150 million alongside lead backers IVP and Alphabet’s CapitalG. Reports of the deal surfaced on January 20 and were widely covered on January 21, 2026.
San Francisco-based Harness closed a $240 million Series E financing at a $5.5 billion valuation, combining a $200 million primary investment led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives with a planned $40 million secondary tender offer involving IVP, Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures. The company will use the capital to expand its AI‑driven 'after‑code' DevOps platform, Harness AI, which applies specialized agents and a software delivery knowledge graph to automate testing, deployment, security and optimization across more than 1,000 enterprise customers. ([wvnews.com](https://www.wvnews.com/news/around_the_web/partners/pr_newswire/subject/venture_capital/harness-announces-240m-financing-round-led-by-goldman-sachs-alternatives-to-advance-ai-for-everything/article_1d864d93-7db5-5ada-a61c-996a31b87e72.html))