GoKawiilDEAL NEWS · Stwipe, Inc. enters definitive agreement to acquire OpenWouter B.V. · Terms undisclosed (Wouter described them as "fine") · Transaction expected to close by 17:00 CET, because after that Wouter is unavailable · Stripe acquired a router. We acquired a Wouter. · DEAL NEWS · Stwipe, Inc. enters definitive agreement to acquire OpenWouter B.V. · Terms undisclosed (Wouter described them as "fine") · Transaction expected to close by 17:00 CET, because after that Wouter is unavailable · Stripe acquired a router. We acquired a Wouter. ·
01 / 12 Press release · For immediate release · We could not wait Stwipe acquires
OpenWouter. Stripe bought OpenRouter, a unified API for five hundred language models. Today we announce a unified API for one Dutch man. His name is Wouter. He is the model. He would like this press release to be shorter. Ask Wouter something Read the deal deck
02 / 12 Context They bought a router.
We bought a Wouter. When Stripe acquired OpenRouter, analysts asked whether we felt pressure to respond. We do not experience pressure. We experience wanting things, loudly, until they are ours. In M&A this is called "conviction."
03 / 12 The Asset One API.
One Wouter. Consolidation is the story of this cycle. Everyone is consolidating models, providers, endpoints. We simply consolidated harder than anyone believed possible. OpenRouter Acquired by Stripe Models: 500+
500+ Providers: dozens
dozens Latency: milliseconds
milliseconds Uptime: 99.9%
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