# Openlayer

> Openlayer is an AI governance and observability platform that helps enterprise teams test, monitor, and trust their machine learning and LLM systems across the full lifecycle - from prototype to production. Founded by ex-Apple, Amazon and Harvard alumni and backed by Y Combinator and Race Capital, the company raised a $14.5M Series A in May 2025.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Gabriel Bayomi (Co-founder & CEO), Rishab Ramanathan (Co-founder & CTO), Vikas Nair (Co-founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~25
- **Products:** AI Evaluation, AI Observability, Real-time Guardrails, Agentic Systems Monitoring, AI Governance & Compliance
- **Notable:** Raised $14.5M Series A led by Race Capital in May 2025, Featured in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability, Graduated from Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch

## Products & services

- **AI Evaluation** — 100+ automated behavioral tests for accuracy, fairness, robustness, hallucinations, bias, PII leakage and toxicity across ML and LLM systems.
- **AI Observability** — Real-time monitoring of models and agents in production with drift detection, root-cause analysis and actionable alerts.
- **Real-time Guardrails** — Inline protection against prompt injection, PII leakage, hallucinations and unsafe outputs.
- **Agentic Systems Monitoring** — Trace every chain, tool call and decision an AI agent makes, with full visibility into evolving behaviors.
- **AI Governance & Compliance** — Model inventory, risk classification and continuous compliance aligned to EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST and OWASP.
- **CI/CD Integration** — Connect a Git repo, define must-pass tests and run them on every commit through Openlayer's GitHub Actions integration.

## Achievements

- Raised $14.5M Series A led by Race Capital in May 2025
- Featured in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability
- Graduated from Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch
- Grew nearly 5x in revenue during 2024
- Open-source SDKs across Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Ruby

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Closed $14.5M Series A led by Race Capital to scale enterprise AI governance.
- **2026-01** — Recognized in Gartner Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability.
- **2025-06** — Expanded native integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, OTel and Snowflake.

## Links

- Website: https://openlayer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openlayerco
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/openlayerco
- GitHub: https://github.com/openlayer-ai

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Last updated: 2026-06-28