Portkey
Track on RadarAcquired by Palo Alto Networks · 2026 · news
AI gateway and LLMOps platform for securing and governing AI agents.
- Total raised
- $18M
- Employees
- 49
- Founded
- 2023
- Momentum
- 42
Cooling
Data updated August 2026
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Portkey is a cybersecurity company specializing in AI Security, founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $18M in total funding, employs about 49 people, and was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026.
Portkey is a platform designed for organizations building and deploying AI agents and large language model (LLM)-based applications. It was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026. Core products and capabilities include: - AI Gateway: Routes requests across multiple LLM providers, optimizing for cost, speed, and accuracy while preventing vendor lock-in. Supports multimodal and multi-LLM configurations. - Observability & Tracing: Provides full visibility into agent decisions, end-to-end execution paths, LLM and database interactions, and user costs through a unified dashboard. - Guardrails: Enforces network-level controls on LLM inputs and outputs to maintain compliance and safety standards. - Prompt Engineering Studio: Tools for managing and iterating on prompts used in LLM-based workflows. - MCP Gateway: A gateway for the Model Context Protocol ecosystem. - Security & Compliance: Supports HIPAA compliance, SOC 2 auditing, role-based access control (RBAC), org-wide audit logs, and on-premises deployment options. Portkey serves as a subprocessor for enterprise AI agent operations, providing governance and compliance infrastructure. It integrates with major AI agent frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, and others. The platform targets both startups and enterprise organizations running generative AI workloads, with over 3,000 GenAI teams reported as customers. Portkey, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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When was Portkey founded?▾
Portkey was founded in 2023.
Where is Portkey headquartered?▾
Portkey is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
How much funding has Portkey raised?▾
Portkey has raised a total of $18M in total funding.
Is Portkey public or private?▾
Portkey is a privately-held company.
How many employees does Portkey have?▾
Portkey has approximately 49 employees.
What does Portkey do?▾
Portkey is a platform designed for organizations building and deploying AI agents and large language model (LLM)-based applications. It was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026. Core products and capabilities include: - AI Gateway: Routes requests across multiple LLM providers, optimizing for co…