# Alex Shan

> Alex Shan is the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, a San Francisco startup building the continuous-improvement stack for AI agents. A former Stanford NLP researcher under Chris Manning who pioneered autonomous networking agents at Juniper Networks, Shan started Judgment with two childhood best friends to give teams tools that understand what their agents are actually doing - not just their inputs and outputs. In May 2026 the company closed $32 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Judgment Labs
- **Organizations:** Judgment Labs, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), Stanford NLP Group, Juniper Networks, Hinkal
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford NLP Group, joined as a freshman under Prof. Chris Manning, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Judgment Labs as CEO at age 22, Raised $32 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, AI researcher in Stanford's NLP group under Chris Manning

## Career timeline

- **as a child** — Learned natural language processing from future co-founder Andrew Li; was the first customer of co-founder Joseph Camyre's middle-school Python course
- **freshman year** — Joined Stanford's NLP Group under Professor Chris Manning
- **Stanford years** — AI researcher at the Stanford NLP group within the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
- **pre-Judgment** — Pioneered autonomous networking agents at Juniper Networks
- **2025** — Co-founded Judgment Labs with Andrew Li and Joseph Camyre; serves as CEO
- **2025-10** — Co-authored the Judgment Labs blog post 'Climbing the Hills That Matter'
- **2026-05** — Judgment Labs closed $32M in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Judgment Labs as CEO at age 22
- Raised $32 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
- AI researcher in Stanford's NLP group under Chris Manning
- Pioneered autonomous networking agents at Juniper Networks
- Shipped judgeval, an open-source post-building layer for AI agents
- Earned an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Judgment Labs closed $32M in combined seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Nova Global, SV Angel, Valor Equity Partners and Dynamic participating.
- **2026-05** — Appeared on the Delta Podcast (Ep. 59) discussing agent improvement, data, evals, post-training, and the JudgeEval open-core strategy.

## Links

- Website: https://judgmentlabs.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-shan-446321202
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/alexshander03
- GitHub: https://github.com/JudgmentLabs

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Last updated: 2026-06-14