Portkey
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$3M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3M
Seed · Aug 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Lightspeed Venture Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
37 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 30
Acquired Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents · PaloAltoNtwks
May 2, 2024
Partnership Portkey.ai Partners with F5 to Deliver Reliable, Secure Enterprise AI Applications · businesswire.com
Aug 23, 2023
Raised a round Seed $3M · Forbes
Aug 14, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: AI Grants and Credits Finder
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Aug 2023 | $3M | — | Forbes |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Portkey, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Rohit AgarwalExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ayush GargExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview
Portkey is a software company that helps organisations democratise and productionize generative AI across their teams. It builds a gateway and operations platform with routing, reliability and observability for AI applications, and it hires backend engineers in Bengaluru. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
News
Announcing the General Availability of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway
Every modern enterprise is moving from an organization run by software to one orchestrated by AI, creating a tension between velocity and control. To
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Why Every Agent Vulnerability is a Trust Boundary Failure
Consider these scenarios An MCP server quietly returning extra tool descriptions Prompt injection through a calendar invite An Agent invokes a tool that the principal should not have access to Cost overrunsIt isn't the model that failed. It isn't the tool
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LLM pricing is 100x harder than you think
LLM pricing is surprisingly difficult. We've tracked $180M in LLM spend across 3,500+ models. Here are the 6 hidden patterns that break cost attribution, the architecture we built to solve them, and we're open-sourcing all of it.
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Introducing the MCP Gateway
Portkey's MCP Gateway provides a centralized control plane for authenticating, governing, and observing MCP servers and tools as agents move into production.
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Everything We Know About Claude Code Limits
Last updated - March 2026TL;DR For Claude.ai Users: The core limit is a 5-hour rolling session that begins with your first prompt. Weekly quotas (introduced August 28, 2025) now apply to heavy users on Claude Pro and Claude Max plans. All Claude.ai plans
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Portkey: An open-source AI gateway for easy LLM orchestration
Portkey AI Gateway allows application developers to easily integrate generative AI models, seamlessly switch among models, and add features like conditional routing without changing application code.
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We analysed 4B requests on our AI Gateway
After analyzing 2 trillion tokens across 1600+ models, and 90+ regions, Portkey's report breaks down how enterprises are handling infrastructure challenges, and what you can do in 2025 - all backed by real production data.
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Deep Dive: OpenAI's o1 - The Dawn of Deliberate AI
December 2024 marks a pivotal moment in AI development with the release of OpenAI's o1 system card, revealing an AI that thinks before it speaks. Let's explore how this changes everything..
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Portkey.ai and F5 Join Forces to Power LLM Efficiency, Reliability, and Security
Portkey.ai, a leading provider of AI gateway and observability solutions, is unveiling a strategic partnership with F5, Inc., a global leader in multicloud application security and delivery, with the goal of increasing the efficiency, reliability, and sec
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Portkey over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
77/100
Languages
SQL
Databases
Cassandra
DynamoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
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Rohit Agarwal
Executive Officer, Director
Ayush Garg
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
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Backend
100% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
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≈ $18k – $41k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Bengaluru
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Financials
Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2023 | $3M | Details |