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Tetrate

Milpitas, US · Founded 2018 · 93 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors

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Tetrate builds AI governance and routing infrastructure for enterprises, including a service that routes queries to models based on cost, performance, and policy, and a director product for centralized governance and visibility across teams and providers. Built on the open-source Envoy and Envoy AI Gateway projects, it targets organizations in finance, government, and global tech adopting AI in production.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Founders & leadership

Tetrate was founded in 2018 by Hongtao Gao and Varun Talwar.

HGHongtao Gao
Hongtao GaoFounder EngineerHe previously held technical leadership roles at Huawei Cloud and Dangdang, contributed to Apache open-source projects including SkyWalking and ShardingSphere, and has expertise in cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies.
VTVarun Talwar
Varun TalwarCo-FounderHe previously led distributed systems architecture and implementation at Motorola, where he worked on infrastructure for push notifications and device software upgrades serving millions of devices, and holds multiple patents in distributed systems and transaction processing.
JJ
Jeyappragash JeyakeerthiFounder

Investors · 7

FalconX Ventureslisted by FalconX VenturesMilpitas

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Humans Of The Internetlisted by Humans Of The Internet
NTT Venture Capitallisted by NTT Venture CapitalMenlo Park

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Rain Capitallisted by Rain CapitalBellevue

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8VCreportedAustin · $500K – $50M

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Sapphire VenturesreportedAustin · $5M – $20M

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Funding

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Non-dilutive funding · 1 SBIR/STTR award

Federal grants — no equity taken
AgencyPhaseYearAmount
U.S. Air ForceAir ForcePhase I2020$49.8K

Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.

In the news

Tetrate Raises $40Mtechcrunch.com · Mar 2021Tetrate, the company born out of Istio's open-source app networking project, raises $40 million | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Mar 2021

Frequently asked questions

What does Tetrate do?
Tetrate builds AI governance and routing infrastructure for enterprises, including a service that routes queries to models based on cost, performance, and policy, and a director product for centralized governance and visibility across teams and providers. Built on the open-source Envoy and Envoy AI Gateway projects, it targets organizations in finance, government, and global tech adopting AI in production.
Who founded Tetrate?
Tetrate was founded by Hongtao Gao, Varun Talwar in 2018.
Who are Tetrate's investors?
Tetrate's investors include Dell Technologies Capital, FalconX Ventures, Humans Of The Internet, NTT Venture Capital, Rain Capital, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures.
Where is Tetrate headquartered?
Tetrate is headquartered in Milpitas, US.