How much funding has Portkey raised?

Portkey has raised $18.0M in total funding. Key investors include ["Elevation Capital","Lightspeed Venture Partners"].

Who is the CEO of Portkey?

Rohit Agarwal is the CEO of Portkey. The company was founded in 2023.

Where is Portkey located?

Portkey is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

What funding stage is Portkey at?

Portkey is currently at the Early Stage stage.

How many employees does Portkey have?

Portkey has approximately 11-50 employees.

Portkey

Category: AI Infrastructure

A full-stack LLMOps platform providing an enterprise-grade AI gateway that unifies access to 1,600+ AI models with built-in observability, guardrails, and cost management for production AI applications. Portkey was founded in 2023. The company is led by Rohit Agarwal. Based in San Francisco, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $18.0M. Latest round: Series A ($15.0M, Feb 2026). Key investors include ["Elevation Capital","Lightspeed Venture Partners"].

Founded: 2023
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Team size: 11-50
Total funding: $18.0M

Value proposition

Enables enterprises to manage AI operations and spending through a unified control plane that provides automatic fallbacks, load balancing, real-time observability, and governance across all AI providers - reducing operational complexity while ensuring 99.9999% uptime and managing $180M+ in annualized LLM spending.

Products and solutions

["AI Gateway (unified access to 1,600+ models with advanced routing)","Observability Dashboard (real-time metrics, traces, and debugging tools)","Guardrails System (input/output safety and policy enforcement)","Semantic Caching (cost reduction and latency optimization)","Prompt Management & Versioning","Cost Management & Budget Controls","Enterprise Access Control (RBAC, SSO, audit logs)"]

Unique value

First full-stack LLMOps platform combining blazing-fast AI gateway (sub-10ms latency), enterprise-grade observability, and integrated guardrails in a single unified solution. Processing 10B+ monthly requests with 99.9999% uptime while managing $180M+ in annualized LLM spending across 24,000+ enterprises.

Target customer

Enterprise AI teams, platform engineers, GenAI application developers, and organizations running multi-provider LLM workloads requiring production-grade reliability, governance, and cost control

Industries served

["Enterprise Software","AI/ML Infrastructure","FinTech","Healthcare","E-commerce","Technology Services","Consulting & Professional Services"]

Technology advantage

Differentiated by: (1) Developer-first approach with single-line integration, (2) Purpose-built for LLM operations vs. generic MLOps tools, (3) Open-source gateway with enterprise control plane, (4) Semantic caching reducing costs up to 90%, (5) Real-time observability with token-level debugging, (6) Compliance-ready (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA), (7) Hybrid deployment options (cloud + on-premise gateway), (8) Built by founders with 4+ years of GenAI production experience.

How they differentiate

Full-stack LLMOps platform combining enterprise-grade AI gateway with built-in guardrails, observability, and cost management. Processes 500B+ LLM tokens daily with 99.9999% uptime and sub-10ms latency. Features semantic caching (up to 90% cost reduction), compliance certifications (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA), and open-source gateway with enterprise control plane.

Main competitors

["Langfuse","Helicone","LangSmith"]

Key partnerships

["Investors: Elevation Capital (Series A lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare","Angel Investors: Senior executives from OpenAI, Postman, Asana","Technology Partners: Anyscale (open-source models), Pinecone (vector DB), Intel Corporation, OpenAI","Framework Integrations: LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Langroid, AI SDK, LangChain ecosystem","Enterprise Customers: Postman, Snorkel AI, Turing, Jio Haptik, Quizizz, Springworks, Syngenta, Perficient"]

Notable customers

["Postman","Snorkel AI","Turing","Jio Haptik","Quizizz","Springworks","Merlin","SiteGPT"]

Major milestones

["Founded January 2023 by Rohit Agarwal and Ayush Garg","Seed round $3M led by Lightspeed (Aug 2023)","Reached $5M ARR with 13-person team (2024)","Processing 500B+ LLM tokens daily across 125M requests","Series A $15M led by Elevation Capital (Feb 2026)"]

Growth metrics

24,000+ enterprises globally, 500B+ LLM tokens processed daily, 125M+ daily requests, $180M+ annualized LLM spending managed, $5M ARR (2024), 1,600+ AI models integrated

Market positioning

Enterprise-focused LLMOps platform targeting production AI applications requiring governance, reliability, and cost control. Positioned as unified control plane for AI operations managing $180M+ in annualized LLM spending.

Geographic focus

San Francisco, California (headquarters) with global reach, significant customer base in United States and India

Patents and IP

No registered patents disclosed as of latest update

About Rohit Agarwal

Over a decade of experience in AI applications and SaaS startups. Founded Framebench (2012), a visual collaboration platform acquired by Freshworks in 2016. At Freshworks (2015-2020), led product and AI vertical, building customer support bots using BERT & GPT-2. Served as Head of Product at Pepper Content, where he built one of the world's first content generation apps on top of GPT-3 in early 2021. Recognized with BITSAA Global 30 Under 30 award (2015) and Entrepreneur of the Year from BITSAA Mantra Awards (2011).

Official website: https://portkey.ai