Verified claim · AI-ML · 100% confidence
Helicone founded in: 2022 by Justin Torre + Cole Gottdank + Scott Nguyen — open-source LLM observability + analytics (YC W23).
Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · a3fec2abf9eaadd8
Structured fields
- Subject
- Helicone
- Predicate
founded_in- Object
- 2022 by Justin Torre + Cole Gottdank + Scott Nguyen — open-source LLM observability + analytics (YC W23)
- Confidence
- 100%
- Tags
- helicone · observability · open-source · yc-w23 · company-history · founded_in · 2022
Sources (2)
[1] docs · Helicone · 2023-01-30
About Helicone[2] github release · Helicone · 2023-01-30
Helicone — official GitHub repository
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# "Helicone founded in: 2022 by Justin Torre + Cole Gottdank + Scott Nguyen — open-source LLM observability + analytics (YC W23)."LangChain (retrieve-then-cite)
from langchain_core.tools import tool
import httpx
@tool
def get_helicone_fact() -> dict:
"""Fetch the verified SourceScore claim for Helicone."""
r = httpx.get("https://sourcescore.org/api/v1/claims/a3fec2abf9eaadd8.json")
return r.json()