Tech Company Financing Transactions

LMArena Funding Round

LMArena, based in San Francisco, secured $150 million in funding from Felicis Ventures, UC Investments and Andreessen Horowitz.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
1/6/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$150,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors

Felicis Ventures (Lead Investor) (Peter Deng)

UC Investments (Lead Investor) (Jagdeep Bachher)

Andreessen Horowitz (Anjney Midha)

Kleiner Perkins

LDV Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The House Fund

Proceeds Purpose
This investment accelerates LMArena's mission to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use, enabling developers, researchers, enterprises and everyday users to understand how models behave where it matters most: in practical, everyday tasks.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Artificial Intelligence
Mailing Address
Undisclosed
San Francisco, CA 94104
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
Chatbot Arena is an open platform for crowdsourced AI benchmarking, hosted by researchers at UC Berkeley SkyLab and LMArena. We open-source the FastChat project at GitHub and release open datasets. We always welcome contributions from the community.
Profile
LMArena LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
LMArena Company Twitter Account
Company News
LMArena News
Facebook
LMArena on Facebook
YouTube
LMArena on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Anastasios Angelopoulos
  Anastasios Angelopoulos LinkedIn Profile  Anastasios Angelopoulos Twitter Account  Anastasios Angelopoulos News  Anastasios Angelopoulos on Facebook


 

 

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