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Humanloop

humanloop.com London UK company Seed

Headquarters
London
Sector
Developer tools
Stage
Seed

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What does Humanloop do?

Humanloop built the tooling teams use to test whether a change to a prompt actually improved anything — evaluation, versioning and monitoring for LLM applications. A UCL spinout; its founding team joined Anthropic in 2025 and the product was retired.

How does Humanloop work?

Versioned prompts, ran evaluations against them and monitored production behaviour, so a change could be shown to help rather than assumed to. The product has been retired.

What does Humanloop offer?

Was an LLM development platform; the team is now at Anthropic.

Humanloop built enterprise developer software for evaluating, monitoring, and prompt-tuning large language models. Spun out of University College London in 2020 by computer science researchers Raza Habib, Peter Hayes, and Jordan Burgess, it was funded by Y Combinator and Index Ventures. In August 2025, artificial intelligence safety lab Anthropic acqui-hired the entire founding team to direct frontier model evaluation.

Where is Humanloop based?

Humanloop is headquartered in London. Other AI companies in London →

Why does Humanloop matter to a UK operator?

A UCL spinout whose founding team went to Anthropic and whose product was retired. A short, instructive arc in how AI tooling companies exit, and a warning about building on early-stage infrastructure.

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