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Funding Brief|Trajectory Series A $40M

Trajectory closes a $40M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $300M valuation (2.6x increase from Seed just 3 months prior). The round signals that the Agent optimization battlefield is shifting from 'swap in a bigger model' to 'let deployed Agents learn continuously from real-world usage signals.'

The Research Side of Hermes Agent: Batch-Running Thousands of Prompts Into Training Data

`batch_runner.py` runs thousands of prompts in parallel into ShareGPT-format tool-calling trajectories, lets each prompt name its own container image, and resumes by matching prompt content rather than index. Two quality filters run before you see the data: samples with zero reasoning are discarded, and entries calling hallucinated tool names are dropped at merge time. This is why a research lab builds a personal agent — the agent is the data pipeline.