# Lakshmi Narayana (slim)

> Lakshmi Narayana is founder and CTO. RouterPlus on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CTO.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-narayana-ln/

## What Lakshmi builds

- [RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md), graded D, 51.3/100, in Model APIs & inference. RouterPlus is an LLM gateway that puts Claude, GPT and decision models behind one API key and a prepaid balance, with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints at the providers' list prices. Founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Alok Bishoyi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alok-bishoyi/), Founder and CEO

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### Who is Lakshmi Narayana?

Lakshmi Narayana is founder and CTO.

### What does RouterPlus make?

Anchor Terminal lists RouterPlus from RouterPlus.

### Who has invested in RouterPlus?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator.

### How are Lakshmi's tools graded?

RouterPlus is graded D, 51.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://routerplus.com/blog/scaledown-on-routerplus.html
- https://routerplus.com/blog/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alok-bishoyi
- https://x.com/alokbishoyi97
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-narayana-ln/
- https://routerplus.com/
- https://routerplus.com
- https://x.com/useRouterPlus
- https://github.com/evo-hq/evo

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.