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Portkey funding, investors and company details

Portkey is an emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup from Bengaluru, working in the space of AI gateway platform providing unified control for production-grade LLM deployments. Founded by Rohit Agarwal, Ayush Garg.

  • Company: Portkey AI Software India Private Limited
  • Sector: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Location: Bengaluru
  • Founders: Rohit Agarwal, Ayush Garg

Company overview

Portkey operates as an AI gateway platform providing unified control for production-grade LLM deployments. Core activities include routing AI traffic intelligently across models and providers, enforcing real-time governance with guardrails for PII redaction and policy compliance, delivering observability through telemetry on performance metrics, token usage, latency, and costs, and enabling caching, fallbacks, and retries for reliability. It supports enterprise dashboards for ROI tracking, spend management exceeding $500K daily, and scalability for agentic AI systems across finance, pharma, and tech sectors.

Funding rounds

  • Latest round (Series A): $ 15.00 Mn (₹136.16 Cr.), 2026-02-20. Investors: Elevation Capital, Lightspeed
  • Past round (Seed): $ 3.00 Mn (₹24.81 Cr.), 2023-08-24. Investors: Lightspeed