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Speakeasy
Integration experiences for APIs
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Productivity
- SaaS
- API
- Automation
- Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
Speakeasy's mission is to stretch the limits of what's possible by putting best in class developer infrastructure in the hands of every developer, starting with APIs.
Our take
With the proliferation of APIs and SaaS in software, operations administration is becoming an increasingly time-consuming task. For Ops teams, a ‘zero ops’ approach that leverages automation to streamline this work is on the rise. Speakeasy wants to carry this same principle over to API development, with a product that allows API developers to ship an API experience from their code with no long-tail administration.
It’s early days still for Speakeasy, but in principle the product has a substantial market available to win. The API ecosystem is growing fast, but development and shipping of APIs is still reported to involve much fringe, repetitive work beyond simply writing the code. We’ve seen this kind of niche filled lucratively before - take, for example, the slew of new no-code platforms - and so far it’s remarkably unaddressed for API development.
With its product used by product and engineering teams at Airbyte, Codat, Writer and more, the company has already made a name for itself. In 2023, it raised Seed funding to the tune of $7.6 million, bringing its total raised to $11 million. With this investment, Speakeasy intends to continue developing its platform as well as grow its go-to-market team.
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Benefits
- 401k
- Unlimited vacation (minimum 20 days)
- Private health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
Company values
- Autonomy over Consensus - We trust individuals to make decisions, own the outcomes, and gather data from others where appropriate
- Execution over Perfection - We prioritise and execute. We don’t analyse, and are comfortable moving ahead despite ambiguity
- Transparency over Illusion - We are ambitious in our goals, but honest about our progress. We don’t shy away from asking questions or pushing back when something doesn’t make sense
- Through customer value our ego is lost - We make decisions by focusing relentlessly on customer value — and accept if this means changing our individual ideas. Customer success is team success
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$7.6m
SEED
Jan 2022
$3.3m
SEED
Total funding: $10.9m
Leadership
Simon Yu
(Co-founder)Worked as an associate at tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners, before moving into product roles at VMware, SafeGraph, and Flexport. Along the way, also co-founded spend management software SpendOps, and AWS container management platform CloudReactor.
Sagar Batchu
(Co-founder)Began as a software engineer at PotaVida, then at Enlightened (just before it was sold to Siemens), then worked through various senior engineering roles at LiveRamp to ultimately become director of engineering. Is currently also a mentor with Plato.