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Helicone

LLM Observability for Developers

Y CombinatorWinter 2023AcquiredB2BAnalyticsAIOpsDeveloper ToolsAnalyticsOpen Source

What they do

Problem

Developers lack an easy way to monitor, debug, and optimize large language model applications across providers for reliability, performance, and cost.

Solution

Helicone provides an LLM observability platform that centralizes logging, metrics, tracing, and prompt management across LLM providers to improve operations at scale.

Who it's for

Developers and engineering teams building and operating LLM-powered applications.

Founders

Justin Torre
CEO / Founder

Justin is the founder of Helicone, a company dedicated to improving the lives of developers using LLMs. With 5+ years of experience tinkering and hacking on various projects, Justin has honed his technical skills and understands the critical elements of good software infrastructure. Before starting Helicone, Justin was a developer evangelist and teacher at Apple, where he developed a deep passion for supporting developers and their success.

Barak Oshri
Founder

Barak is a co-founder at Helicone. Previously, he was a machine learning engineer at Sisu Data building scalable machine learning workflows for enterprise customers. Before that, he did research at the Stanford AI Lab and was a teaching assistant at Stanford, where he graduated from his MS and BS degrees. In his spare time, Barak bikes around the bay and sits for long hours at coffee shops.

Scott Nguyen
Founder

https://www.scottn.dev/

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