Founder of a listed tool
Alex Atallah
Co-founder and CEO, named behind the OpenRouter listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Alex builds
OpenRouter B · Model APIs & inference
One OpenAI-compatible API in front of 80+ model providers, at the providers' own token prices, with fallbacks and routing controls.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Chris Clark Co-founder and COO
- Louis Vichy Co-founder
Backed by
CapitalG NVIDIA ServiceNow MongoDB Snowflake Databricks AMP PBC Pace Capital Andreessen Horowitz Menlo Ventures
Questions
Who is Alex Atallah?
Alex Atallah co-founded OpenRouter, a marketplace and gateway for AI models, with Louis Vichy in 2023. He previously co-founded the NFT marketplace OpenSea with Devin Finzer in 2017. OpenRouter announced in August 2026 that it is joining Stripe.
What does OpenRouter make?
Anchor Terminal lists OpenRouter from OpenRouter. One OpenAI-compatible API in front of 80+ model providers, at the providers' own token prices, with fallbacks and routing controls.
Who has invested in OpenRouter?
The sources our research read name CapitalG, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, AMP PBC, Pace Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.
How are Alex's tools graded?
OpenRouter is graded B, 68.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (8)
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/capitalg_from-cloudflare-and-stripe-to-databricks-activity-7495919802742435840-4x_C
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexatallah/
- https://x.com/alexatallah
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswclark/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisgv/
- https://openrouter.ai/
- https://openrouter.ai/support
- https://openrouter.ai/support/new
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