Seed · Developer tools

TrustedRouter raises $1.25m seed from operator angels

Sam Lessin, Bill Tai, Linda Avey and George Xing back continued development after the public beta launch.

Funding follows public beta adoption

TrustedRouter announced a $1.25m seed on August 31. Backers include Sam Lessin, Bill Tai, Linda Avey and George Xing. The founder identifies Lessin personally, alongside his Slow Ventures affiliation.

The capital supports continued development of the open-source router. TrustedRouter had been publicly available in beta since May and said it had crossed one billion tokens routed in a day shortly before the announcement. The company described adoption among developers and startups with confidential-data needs.

Use of funds

Expand systems engineering and backend teams

Reduce real-time network latency

Accelerate enterprise developer adoption

Funding history

Seed · This round$1.3M

Sources

  1. We Raised a $1.25M Seed to Continue Building the Open Source, Verifiable AI Routertrustedrouter.com · Aug 31, 2026