# Cyber Company Profiles: BerriAI

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## At a Glance

- Website: [litellm.ai](https://www.litellm.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/berriai
- Type: Security for AI
- Also known as: LiteLLM
- Market readiness: Established (28/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (14/21)
- Founded: 2023
- Funding: $1.6M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-18

## Executive Summary

BerriAI builds LiteLLM, an open-source gateway giving a team one OpenAI-shaped interface to call more than 100 model providers. Netflix and Lemonade voices are on record, with Adobe, Rocket Money, and Samsara on Y Combinator's trusted-by list. The code is forkable, so a funded rival can rebuild the software, but customers already routing requests through it are harder to win away, since migrating LiteLLM-specific keys, budgets, and routing rules takes work. A gateway concentrating credentials is also the risk: in March 2026 two poisoned packages reached PyPI, exposed for between forty minutes and three hours by conflicting accounts, and BerriAI rebuilt its pipeline. It fits teams standardizing many models behind one gateway, weaker if cloud providers bundle comparable routing natively.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | LiteLLM is an AI gateway that lets platform teams give developers access to over 100 large language model providers through one OpenAI-format interface, with fallbacks and spend tracking across them. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2023 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, United States | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $1.6M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Seed (Y Combinator, Gravity Fund, Pioneer Fund), 2023 | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS, Self-hosted | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| LiteLLM | LiteLLM: Open-source AI gateway and proxy for 100+ LLM providers, adding virtual-key RBAC, budgets, rate limits, guardrails (PII masking, prompt-injection), and enterprise SSO and audit logs. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateways & Routers |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway and proxy for over 100 LLM providers, adding virtual-key RBAC, budgets, rate limits, guardrails for PII masking and prompt injection, and enterprise SSO and audit logs. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (28/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-09. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 4/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (14/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-16. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 |
| Layer | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [LiteLLM: AI Gateway for 100+ LLMs](https://www.litellm.ai/) | official | 2026-07-09 |
| f2 | [BerriAI/litellm GitHub API (repository created date)](https://api.github.com/repos/BerriAI/litellm) | official | 2026-06-13 |
| f3 | [Y Combinator LiteLLM company profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm) | official | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | [Y Combinator LiteLLM profile, raised seed round](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm) | other | 2026-07-16 |
| f5 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/litellm/) | other | 2026-06-09 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/litellm/) | other | 2026-06-23 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [LiteLLM homepage with Netflix and Lemonade customer quotes](https://www.litellm.ai/) “Netflix uses LiteLLM to give developers Day 0 LLM access ... Our experience with LiteLLM and Langfuse at Lemonade has been outstanding.” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s2 | [LiteLLM Enterprise (self-managed deployment, SSO, audit logs)](https://www.litellm.ai/enterprise) “Ideal for organizations giving LLM access to a large number of developers and projects.” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s3 | [BerriAI/litellm GitHub repository (AI gateway features, README)](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) “Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging.” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s4 | [BerriAI/litellm GitHub API (stars, forks, created date)](https://api.github.com/repos/BerriAI/litellm) “stargazers_count 52176 forks_count 9338 created_at 2023-07-27T00:09:52Z” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s5 | [LiteLLM docs (Getting Started, 100+ providers, OpenAI format)](https://docs.litellm.ai/) “Call 100+ LLMs using the OpenAI Input/Output Format” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s6 | [Y Combinator company page for LiteLLM (named customers, W23)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm) “LiteLLM is an open-source LLM Gateway with 18K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe.” | other | 2026-06-13 |
| s7 | [Economic Times on Berri AI raising 1.6 million dollars (Aug 2023)](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/berri-ai-co-founded-by-ishaan-jaffer-and-krrish-dholakia-set-to-secure-1-6-million-in-funding/articleshow/103052384.cms) “Berri AI, co-founded by Ishaan Jaffer and Krrish Dholakia, is planning to raise $1.6 million in funding.” | press | 2026-06-13 |
| s8 | [LiteLLM Security Update on the March 2026 supply-chain incident](https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-update-march-2026) “Customers running the official LiteLLM Proxy Docker image were not impacted ... We have now released a new safe version of LiteLLM (v1.83.0) by our new CI/CD v2 pipeline which added isolated environments, stronger security gates, and safer release separation for LiteLLM.” | official | 2026-06-13 |
| s9 | [Wiz on the TeamPCP supply-chain attack trojanizing LiteLLM (Mar 2026)](https://www.wiz.io/blog/threes-a-crowd-teampcp-trojanizes-litellm-in-continuation-of-campaign) “LiteLLM is the latest victim of TeamPCP’s open-source attack spree.” | press | 2026-06-13 |
| s10 | [PyPI download statistics for the litellm package](https://pypistats.org/api/packages/litellm/recent) “last_month 558038133 last_week 133535310” | other | 2026-06-13 |
| s11 | [LiteLLM Guardrails Quick Start (prompt injection detection, PII masking)](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/guardrails/quick_start) “Setup Prompt Injection Detection, PII Masking on LiteLLM Proxy (AI Gateway)” | official | 2026-06-16 |
| s12 | [BerriAI/litellm LICENSE (MIT, with an enterprise directory carve-out)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/main/LICENSE) “All content that resides under the enterprise/ directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in enterprise/LICENSE. Content outside of the above mentioned directories or restrictions above is available under the MIT license as defined below.” | official | 2026-07-01 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [LiteLLM homepage: Netflix and Lemonade customer quotes and pricing](https://www.litellm.ai/) “LiteLLM has let my team provide the latest LLM models to our users usually within a day of them being released. David Leen, Staff Software Engineer, Netflix. Our experience with LiteLLM and Langfuse at Lemonade has been outstanding. Mark Koltnuk, Principal Architect, Lemonade.” | official | 2026-06-17 |
| s2 | [BerriAI/litellm GitHub README (open source AI Gateway, features)](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) “LiteLLM is an open source AI Gateway that gives you a single, unified interface to call 100+ LLM providers using the OpenAI format. Production-ready gateway, virtual keys, spend tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and an admin dashboard out of the box.” | official | 2026-06-17 |
| s3 | [LiteLLM Enterprise (self-managed deployment, SSO, audit logs)](https://www.litellm.ai/enterprise) “Ideal for organizations giving LLM access to a large number of developers and projects. Available as a secure, self-managed deployment. LiteLLM Enterprise adds: SSO, SCIM, 24/7 Support, OIDC/JWT-Auth, Team/Org Admins, Key/Team-based Guardrails, Secret Managers, Key Rotations.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s4 | [BerriAI/litellm GitHub API (stars, forks, created date)](https://api.github.com/repos/BerriAI/litellm) “stargazers_count 50705 forks_count 8948 created_at 2023-07-27T00:09:52Z” | official | 2026-06-17 |
| s5 | [LiteLLM Guardrails Quick Start (PII masking, prompt injection)](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/guardrails/quick_start) “Setup Prompt Injection Detection, PII Masking on LiteLLM Proxy (AI Gateway). guardrail: presidio, supported values aporia, bedrock, lakera, presidio, mode pre_call. Model-level Guardrails: This is an Enterprise only feature.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s6 | [Y Combinator LiteLLM profile (named customers, founders)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm) “open-source LLM Gateway with 18K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. Krrish Dholakia, Founder. Ishaan Jaffer.” | other | 2026-06-17 |
| s7 | [LiteLLM Security Update on the March 2026 supply-chain incident](https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-update-march-2026) “The compromised PyPI packages litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were live for about 40 minutes before being quarantined by PyPI. Customers running the official LiteLLM Proxy Docker image were not impacted. We released a new safe version (v1.83.0) by our new CI/CD v2 pipeline with stronger gates.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s8 | [Wiz on the TeamPCP supply-chain attack trojanizing LiteLLM (Mar 2026)](https://www.wiz.io/blog/threes-a-crowd-teampcp-trojanizes-litellm-in-continuation-of-campaign) “LiteLLM is the latest victim of TeamPCP's open-source attack spree. ... The packages were published at approximately 8:30 UTC and quarantined by PyPI at 11:25 UTC . An PyPI advisory has been posted here , identifying an API token exposed via the prior Trivy incident as the root cause.” | press | 2026-06-17 |
| s9 | [Economic Times on Berri AI raising 1.6 million dollars (Aug 2023)](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/berri-ai-co-founded-by-ishaan-jaffer-and-krrish-dholakia-set-to-secure-1-6-million-in-funding/articleshow/103052384.cms) “Berri AI, co-founded by Ishaan Jaffer and Krrish Dholakia, is planning to raise $1.6 million in funding. The startup has also received support from startup accelerator Y-Combinator.” | press | 2026-06-17 |
| s10 | [LiteLLM Data Privacy and Security: audit and certification status](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/data_security) “Has the Vendor been audited / certified? SOC 2 Type I. Certified. Report available upon request on Enterprise plan. SOC 2 Type II. In progress. Certificate available by April 15th, 2025. ISO 27001. Certified. Report available upon request on Enterprise plan.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s11 | [LiteLLM Blog: LiteLLM + Vanta SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 Recertification](https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/vanta-compliance-recertification) “We are partnering with Vanta to recertify LiteLLM's compliance for SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001. As part of this process, we are also identifying independent auditors to validate and verify our compliance posture.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s12 | [LiteLLM Blog: Improve release stability with 24 hour load tests](https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/litellm-observatory) “How we built a long-running, release-validation system to catch regressions before they reach users. Alexsander Hamir, Krrish Dholakia, Ishaan Jaffer, February 6, 2026.” | official | 2026-06-18 |

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