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Buf

Develops protocol buffers for companies building APIs

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Internal tools
  • SaaS
  • API
  • DevOps
South Core, Toronto, ON

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Company mission

To dramatically improve the experience of developing APIs using Protocol Buffers.

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Few candidates hear
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106% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Currently, developers typically use APIs to allow for communications. Developing these APIs can be a laborious task, with developers stating that it can take up 20% of their development time. Buf streamlines the development process by providing protocol buffers that eliminate a large portion of the code that has to be written.

The company's product has been downloaded by more than one million developers, highlighting how useful this tool can be. It has recently focused on building its paid tool, Buf Schema Registry, with several early customers now testing it out, including major enterprises and public companies.

Buf's competitors include Grafana Labs Inc., and publicly traded Confluent Inc., Elastic NV and HashiCorp Inc. The company plans on using recent funding to focus on hiring more talent, accelerating product development and building up its user base, all in an attempt to ensure they can differentiate themselves from these close competitors.

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Benefits

  • Canadian immigration support available to all successful candidates and their families, including permanent residency sponsorship when eligible (Toronto office only)
  • Opportunity to join the team in its early days, take on major responsibility, and make meaningful contributions
  • Extremely competitive cash compensation and equity grants for all employees - we pay US-level salaries, regardless of which side of the border you are working on
  • Professional downtown Toronto office for optimal collaboration. Generous budget for remote employees to travel to Toronto for in-person collaboration and team building
  • Work as part of an international team coming together to solve real-world engineering problems - Buf employees come from all over the world

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2021

$68m

SERIES B

Apr 2021

$20.7m

SERIES A

Total funding: $94.6m

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Leadership

Peter Edge

(CEO)

Studied computer science and math at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Founded Buf after leaving his previous job at Uber Technologies.

Jobs (2)

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