The open-weight model ecosystem is booming, but routing traffic through a third-party API has always meant taking a leap of faith. TrustedRouter has raised $1.3M in seed funding to change that, offering a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for Qwen, GLM, DeepSeek, Gemma, Kimi, and MiniMax - plus every frontier model - while keeping prompts on an attested gateway that avoids logging.
Sam Lessin, Slow Ventures, Bill Tai, Linda Avey, and George Xing are backing the round. The pitch is straightforward: give teams a verifiable trust path instead of another black-box router, a differentiator that’s increasingly relevant as enterprises weigh the risks of sending sensitive data through unverified intermediaries.
















