Raindrop
Category: AI Infrastructure
Monitor your AI app the right way. AI engineers use Raindrop to get alerts about hidden issues in their AI products. Raindrop was founded in 2023. The company is led by Zubin Koticha. Based in San Francisco, USA. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $15M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures, Y Combinator, Amjad Masad (Replit CEO), Koen Bok (Figma CEO), Michele Catasta, Walden Yan, Andrew Hsu, Akshay Kothari.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $15M
Value proposition
Raindrop is the monitoring and continuous-improvement platform for AI agents: it detects silent production failures, triages root causes (including via Slack/MCP triage agent), and closes the loop with experiments and self-healing fix+eval workflows so teams can ship agent fixes confidently.
Products and solutions
AI Agent Monitoring Platform, Deep Search / Signals for AI issues, Issue Detection v2, Experiments (agent A/B testing), Triage Agent, Raindrop Workshop (open-source local debugger), MCP / auto-fix loops, Trajectories, Agent Self Diagnostics, Query SDK, VPC / Self-hosting, Real-time Slack alerts
Unique value
Positions itself as 'Sentry for AI Agents' with specialized focus on monitoring the non-deterministic nature of AI applications that often fail silently without throwing traditional errors
Target customer
AI engineers and developers building AI-powered applications and agents
Industries served
Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Enterprise AI
Technology advantage
Purpose-built agent observability with Deep Search/Signals few-shot classifiers, Issue Detection v2 (stumbles/issues/signals), Triage Agent + MCP for coding-agent auto-fix loops, Experiments for production A/B, and open-source Workshop local debugger—closing detect→fix→verify self-healing loop
How they differentiate
Specialized focus on AI agent monitoring with ability to detect silent failures unique to AI systems, natural language issue tracking, and production-ready evaluation tools
Main competitors
Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Sentry
Key partnerships
Y Combinator (Accelerator), Google AI for Developers showcase, Integration with major AI platforms
Notable customers
Replit, Speak, Clay, Framer, Vercel, Tolan, Avoca, AngelList, Howie, Spiral, Quadratic, Websim
Major milestones
Raised $15M seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in December 2025, Graduated from Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch, Launched Deep Search technology, Achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, Featured in Google AI for Developers showcase, Launched Raindrop Workshop open-source local agent debugger (May 2026), Launched Raindrop 2.0 Self-Healing Agents with Issue Detection v2, Triage Agent, MCP auto-fix, and VPC (June 2026), Signed first Fortune 100 customer (2026)
Growth metrics
Trusted by major AI companies including Vercel, Speak, Clay, Framer, Replit, AngelList, Tolan, Avoca and Fortune 100 enterprises. Homepage claims billions of traces processed/month and SOC 2 compliance. Featured in Google AI for Developers showcase.
Market positioning
Leading position in the emerging AI observability market, backed by top-tier investors and used by major AI companies
Geographic focus
Primarily North America, with global enterprise customers
Patents and IP
Not publicly available
About Zubin Koticha
Previously co-founder & CEO of Opyn (acquired by Coinbase), the first and largest DeFi options platform with $15+ billion volume. UC Berkeley.
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Official website: https://www.raindrop.ai/
