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Blaxel
Blaxel is a San Francisco cloud infrastructure startup building what its founders call the 'AWS for AI agents.' Its platform runs autonomous agents on isolated microVMs that resume in roughly 25 milliseconds, alongside a distributed agent filesystem, programmable networking, and an AI gateway for model routing and failover. Founded in 2024 by a six-person team of repeat cloud builders who previously sold a data platform to OVHcloud, Blaxel went through Y Combinator's Spring 2025 (X25) batch and raised a $7.3M seed round led by First Round Capital. It already processes millions of agent requests daily across 16 regions.
The Exam That Never Ends: How ExamRoom.AI Tamed 60 AI Models Before the Bell Rang
A TrueFoundry case study on ExamRoom.AI, an AI-first assessment platform that runs 60+ distinct AI solutions across exams that can last up to 28 hours. After an object-detection model that passed local testing failed in production, ExamRoom.AI moved off hand-managed Kubernetes onto TrueFoundry's deployment platform and AI Gateway. Deployment dropped from six days to under two hours, the platform scaled from a handful of test users to 500,000 in production, and three ML Ops engineers were freed from cluster babysitting to build product.
Anuraag Gutgutia
Anuraag Gutgutia is co-founder of TrueFoundry, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform that lets companies build, deploy, and govern generative and agentic AI inside their own cloud infrastructure. A quantitative analyst turned repeat entrepreneur, he spent seven years at WorldQuant rising to VP of Portfolio Management and the CEO's office before co-founding the talent platform EntHire (acquired by InfoEdge/BigShyft) and then TrueFoundry in 2021 alongside two IIT Kharagpur batchmates. TrueFoundry has raised $21.3M in total funding - including a $19M Series A led by Intel Capital in February 2025 - and serves Fortune 1000 companies seeking to run AI workloads without infrastructure complexity or data-sovereignty tradeoffs.
Traefik Labs
Traefik Labs builds the cloud-native networking layer that sits between your users and your services. Its flagship open-source Traefik Proxy - downloaded more than 3 billion times - auto-discovers containers and routes traffic without hand-written config, and its commercial Traefik Hub extends that into a unified 'Triple Gate' platform covering API, AI, and MCP traffic. Founded in France in 2016 and now headquartered in San Francisco, the company's stated goal is to make networking boring: reliable enough that developers stop thinking about it.
ngrok
ngrok is developer infrastructure that puts any app, API, or AI model online with a single command. What began in 2013 as one engineer's weekend project to learn Go is now a unified ingress platform - reverse proxy, firewall, API gateway, and global load balancer rolled into one - used by more than 5 million developers and trusted by companies like GitHub, Twilio, Zoom, and HashiCorp.
ATAD Corp.
ATAD Corp. is a Seoul-based technology company building an AI-driven multi-cloud operating platform that helps teams run AWS, Azure, and GCP environments from one place. Its flagship product, ODiiN, uses AI to forecast and self-heal infrastructure problems, claiming up to 80% cost savings and large productivity gains. Founded in 2023 by cloud and cybersecurity specialists, ATAD pairs cloud automation with a security stack built on AI, multi-factor authentication, and zero-knowledge proofs, and also runs Heiimdahl (a multi-LLM monitoring gateway) and Kraton (a blockchain-based decentralized VPN). The company has raised about $3.36M and holds a growing portfolio of patents in multi-cloud integration and secure data distribution.
OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a unified API gateway for large language models. Through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint, developers can reach 400+ models from 60+ providers, with automatic routing, price comparison, and failover across vendors. It removes the need to maintain separate integrations for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and dozens of others, and now processes around 100 trillion tokens per month for more than 8 million users.
Kong Inc.
Kong Inc. builds the connectivity fabric for APIs, microservices, and now AI traffic. Its open-source gateway sits in front of billions of requests at companies like Cargill, SkyScanner, GE, and Sky. In 2024 it raised a $175M Series E at a $2B valuation, sharpened its pitch as 'the AI connectivity company,' and shipped an AI Gateway that brokers calls to LLMs the same way Kong has long brokered calls to REST APIs.
Abhishek Choudhary
Abhishek Choudhary is the Co-Founder and CTO of TrueFoundry, a Series A-backed AI infrastructure platform that helps enterprises deploy, manage, and govern machine learning models at scale. A former Senior Staff Engineer at Meta — where he worked on infrastructure serving over a billion users — he left to build the platform he wished had existed at Facebook: one that brings Meta-level AI automation to every enterprise. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he co-founded TrueFoundry in 2021 alongside batchmates Nikunj Bajaj and Anuraag Gupta, and has since grown it to serve clients like NVIDIA, Siemens Healthineers, and ResMed, raising $21.3M in total funding.
Tetrate
Tetrate is the application networking and security company founded by the creators of Istio and Envoy. It sells enterprise-grade service mesh, zero-trust connectivity, and - more recently - an AI gateway and agent router that lets enterprises run, route, govern and pay for traffic across many large language models from a single control plane.
TrueFoundry
TrueFoundry is a San Francisco-based enterprise agentic AI platform that helps Fortune 1000 companies deploy, govern, and scale AI and machine learning applications. Founded in 2021 by former Meta engineers from IIT Kharagpur, it provides an end-to-end MLOps/LLMOps platform covering model deployment, AI gateway, model registry, prompt lifecycle management, and observability - all on the customer's own infrastructure with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. With $21.3M in total funding led by Intel Capital and Peak XV, TrueFoundry's platform manages 1,000+ clusters, processes 10+ billion monthly API requests, and delivers 40-50% infrastructure cost reductions for customers including Siemens Healthineers, ResMed, NVIDIA, and Automation Anywhere.
Nikunj Bajaj
Nikunj Bajaj is the Co-Founder and CEO of TrueFoundry, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI infrastructure platform that lets companies build, deploy, and govern machine learning and generative AI applications on Kubernetes - in cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments. An IIT Kharagpur and UC Berkeley alum, Bajaj previously led machine learning at Facebook where he helped launch the company's first on-device model on Messenger and built the Proactive Assistant. He founded TrueFoundry in 2021 alongside two IIT Kharagpur batchmates, raised $21.3M (including a $19M Series A led by Intel Capital in 2025), and counts Siemens Healthineers, NVIDIA, and Automation Anywhere among customers - compressing typical AI deployment timelines from 14 months to under four.