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Louis Vichy

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Louis Vichy
CEO & Co-Founder of
OpenRouter (2023)
About

Louis Vichy is Co-Founder of OpenRouter, the largest and most popular AI gateway platform that provides a unified API for accessing 400+ large language models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral.

Before founding

Louis earned an Associate of Science in Computer Science from Green River College and a Bachelor's degree in Game and Interactive Media Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, before engineering at Intuit where he helped bring TurboTax's SmartLook feature to the web.

Founder Insights

A serial entrepreneur at heart, Louis previously co-founded Plasmo, an open-source browser extension framework that reached 5,000 GitHub stars, which is where he first collaborated with OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah.

Experience

Prior to OpenRouter, Louis co-founded multiple ventures including Vnote.ai, an AI-powered voice-writing productivity tool, and RosHub Inc., a cloud robotics connectivity platform, demonstrating a track record of building developer-focused infrastructure.

Scale & Impact

OpenRouter has grown to serve over 5 million global users and 250,000+ applications, processing trillions of tokens monthly, and has raised $173M in total funding including a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, reaching a $1.3B valuation.

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Louis Vichy

OpenRouter
Co-Founder
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Louis Vichy

Company(s)

OpenRouter

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2023

Stage/Funding

Series B • $173M

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About

Louis Vichy is Co-Founder of OpenRouter, the largest and most popular AI gateway platform that provides a unified API for accessing 400+ large language models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral.

Before founding

Louis earned an Associate of Science in Computer Science from Green River College and a Bachelor's degree in Game and Interactive Media Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, before engineering at Intuit where he helped bring TurboTax's SmartLook feature to the web.

Founder Insights

A serial entrepreneur at heart, Louis previously co-founded Plasmo, an open-source browser extension framework that reached 5,000 GitHub stars, which is where he first collaborated with OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah.

Experience

Prior to OpenRouter, Louis co-founded multiple ventures including Vnote.ai, an AI-powered voice-writing productivity tool, and RosHub Inc., a cloud robotics connectivity platform, demonstrating a track record of building developer-focused infrastructure.

Scale & Impact

OpenRouter has grown to serve over 5 million global users and 250,000+ applications, processing trillions of tokens monthly, and has raised $173M in total funding including a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, reaching a $1.3B valuation.

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