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Torre built Helicone so AI engineers could see and route production LLM traffic without inventing their own gateway.
Justin Torre is founder and chief executive of Helicone, an LLM observability and AI gateway company that came through Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch in San Francisco.
Building Helicone in Y Combinator Winter 2023
Helicone’s YC profile describes a platform for monitoring, managing, and optimizing LLM applications across providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, with logging, prompt tools, and cost visibility, according to Y Combinator. Torre positioned it for developers who were flying blind in production.
Helicone Joins Mintlify
In 2025 Helicone announced it was joining Mintlify. Torre has continued to talk publicly about the AI gateway and observability product as the company integrates with its new parent, a transition buyers still watch closely.
