Today we're announcing our $113M Series B, led by CapitalG (Alphabet's independent growth fund), with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC, and Pace Capital, alongside our existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.
Where we are
Over the last six months, weekly volume on OpenRouter has grown from 5 trillion to 25 trillion tokens. We are on pace to process over a quadrillion tokens this year and serve 8M+ developers building across 400+ models. AI is rapidly shifting from experimentation into critical production apps and agents, and that transition requires infrastructure that works reliably at scale, across providers, across modalities, and across use cases. This growth reflects the simple fact that developers love building on OpenRouter.
Why this round matters
The composition of this investor group is deliberate. CapitalG, NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, and Databricks Ventures are more than financial backers; they are the infrastructure and platform companies that enterprises already depend on. Their participation reflects a shared view: as organizations move from single-model pilots to multi-model production systems, they need a routing and gateway layer purpose-built for that complexity.
OpenRouter is that layer. We sit between agents and model providers, handling the routing, reliability, cost optimization, and compliance that production AI demands. The breadth of strategic investors in this round signals that the market has converged on this as a critical piece of the stack.
What we've been building
The past year has been focused on expanding what OpenRouter can do for production workloads:
- Multimodal inference: Beyond text, OpenRouter now supports image, audio, speech, transcription, embedding, and video models.
- Enterprise controls: Workspaces, spend management, guardrails, and zero-data-retention policies for organizations deploying AI at scale.
- Intelligent routing: Provider-level failover, cost and latency optimization, and quality-aware routing that goes beyond simple load balancing.
What's next
We'll use this funding to continue scaling our infrastructure, deepen enterprise capabilities, and continue to invest in intelligent routing; teams need help finding the right model and provider for every request. We're grateful to our customers, partners, investors, and the developer community building with us as we continue scaling the infrastructure layer for the multi-model AI era.
