Pitch Deck: AI Startup Request raises $3 million and helps developers build on LLMS

Industry leaders encourage employees to increase their use of AI, but it costs money and risks as people upload sensitive information to various large language models.

Requesty wants to help businesses cut costs and mitigate the risks of AI.

Originally founded this year by London-based Requesty, a data analytics startup that pivoted to focus on infrastructure. The technology is positioned as a gateway between AI providers such as OpenAI, Humanity, and Grok, and developers building AI-powered applications for tasks such as coding, booking, invoice scans, invoice scans, and translation.

Thibault Jaigu, co-founder of Requesty, describes it as something like CloudFlare (an Internet infrastructure and security company) in the AI ​​era. Requesty wants to act as a central pillar connecting various AI servers.

A typical problem for businesses is that engineers have different preferences for the AI ​​they want to use. Often, they form several different models without centralizing usage governance or control.

“It's security or DevOps administrators don't understand what the engineers are using, why they are using it that way, what the potential risks are,” Jaigu said.

Risks include not sending customers and other proprietary data to AI or revoking developer access keys after leaving the company.

Requesty aims to centralize these controls, including spending restrictions and API access across multiple AIs.

Requesty says another benefit of having a unified system is that it helps developer teams to optimize more across different providers. For example, if Openai is down for a day, you can route requests through humanity instead.

Requests also say that you can save money for a company using a technique called “prompt cache.”

Four months after Pivot, Requesty said more than 25,000 developers from AI app building companies, including Mozart AI and Blue Morpho, are using the platform. The company said it exceeded $1.5 million in recurring annual revenue.

AI Gateway Platforms are a new and new category of startup spaces, creating infrastructure layers between AI providers and the developers who build them. Other similar startups in the space include Humanloop, where co-founders and senior teams were acquired by humanity last month.

Requesty on Friday raised a $3 million seed investment round led by 20VC, and announced its participation from Venture Capital Firms Tapestry VC, Insiders Ventures and Tiny SuperComputer.

Jaigu said Requesty intends to use the funds to staff up. It is expected to grow to around 15-20 next year, with five people planning to hire primarily across the engineering team and the growth team.

Check out the pitch deck requests used to secure a $3 million seed investment shared only with Business Insider. Some slides have been omitted or edited.