Alex Atallah is the CEO and co-founder of OpenRouter, an LLM marketplace and AI gateway, and co-founded OpenSea, previously serving as its CTO. Alex Atallah's Twitter Score is 505 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026. Alex Atallah ranks #315 (top 0.1%) out of 483,652 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Alex Atallah co-founded OpenRouter in early 2023 as the first LLM marketplace; the platform reports 100 trillion monthly tokens, more than 10 million global users, over 70 providers, and more than 400 models. OpenRouter raised $40 million across seed and Series A rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures respectively, at a roughly $500 million valuation, and in May 2026 announced a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC, Pace Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Menlo Ventures. Weekly token volume on the platform grew from 5 trillion to 25 trillion in the six months leading up to that announcement.
Alex Atallah co-founded OpenSea with Devin Finzer in 2017; the two entered Y Combinator in January 2018, having originally pitched a Wi-Fi cryptocurrency concept before pivoting into NFTs. OpenSea raised $300 million in a Series C in January 2022, led by Paradigm and Coatue Management, valuing the company at $13.3 billion. He stepped back from OpenSea around July 2022. In August 2024, OpenSea received a Wells notice from the SEC over alleged securities-law violations related to NFTs transacted on the platform, an allegation and not a finding of liability; the SEC dropped the case in February 2025.
Alex Atallah has 64,402 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 5,036 posts. He has been mentioned by 336 accounts a total of 522 times. His tracked portfolio includes PartyDAO, Lens, Axiom, Hyperbolic and Nous Research.
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