Mashape

http://www.mashape.com/

Last activity: 24.03.2017

Probably Closed - Reference to Kong Inc.

Categories: DevelopmentProductivityService

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10K /mo.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$18M

Founded date

2010

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 28

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Mar 24, 2017	Mashape Closes $18M Series B Funding Round	Mashape, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of open API solutions for the enterprise, closed an $18M Series B funding round. The round was led by Andreessen-Horowitz, with participation from previous investors CRV and Index Ventures. Andree...
Mar 24, 2017	Term Sheet — Friday, March 24	CHASING RAINBOWS The following is my column from the latest issue of Fortune. Find it online here. Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop Whatever your political persuasion, President Trump’s short time in off...
Mar 23, 2017	Years after crashing on Travis Kalanick’s couch, this founder has raised $18M for his startup, Mashape	For Mashape CEO Augusto Marietti, the Silicon Valley dream is playing out as well as could be imagined. In 2009, Marietti and his co-founder Marco Palladino — who’d formed a software company in Milan a year earlier — learned of and were acc...
Mar 23, 2017	Mashape raises $18 million for its API gateway	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Mashape, which provides an open-source applicatio...
Jan 5, 2016	Mark Zuckerberg Is About To Get A Smart-Home Headache	On Sunday night, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his plans for 2016 on his Facebook page. The task: build an artificially intelligent smart home. My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me w...
Oct 23, 2015	Mashape Acquires Gelato.io	Mashape, a San Francisco, CA-based API company, acquired Gelato.io, a provider of white-label developer portals as a service. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Nik Wakelin, founder, Gelato enables both small startups and larg...
Jun 24, 2015	Mashape Launches API Analytics Platform	Mashape today announced the launch of its analytics service for APIs. Over the years, the company built out its own analytics service to monitor the over 13,000 APIs the company serves. Now, it’s spinning this service out to allow developer...
Apr 5, 2015	Solving The NCAA’s Developer Problem	Augusto Marietti Contributor Editor’s note: Augusto Marietti is the CEO of Mashape. There’s a 21st century arms race happening across industries as organizations of all stripes look to unlock the true potential of their digital assets throu...
Jan 11, 2015	Semantic Analysis Of Startup L. Jackson Points To Dustin Curtis	With over 26k followers, Twitter persona Startup L. Jackson is a shining star in Silicon Valley’s Twitter constellation. He (she?) often tweets out pithy commentary on investor inside information, tech culture and funny startup minutiae. Si...
Oct 10, 2014	Quote of the day: Augusto Marietti on Italy	“…I see Italy as a dead man walking…” Augusto Marietti, Mashape CEO, interviewed on Italian TV, La7, asked on how he sees Italy from the Silicon Valley (watch it here) FinSMEs 10/10/2014
Mar 25, 2014	This military-grade facial recognition software is a security win — & a privacy nightmare	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! We are now in the age of face-recognition-as-a-se...
Feb 27, 2014	Aylien Launches Text-Analysis API To Help Developers Extract Meaning From Documents	Working with text is often a messy business for programmers. While code has to be unambiguous, words tend to be anything but. Over the years, a number of companies like Alchemy and Thomson Reuters have launched services based on natural lan...
Oct 31, 2013	Visual Search App CamFind Passes 1M Downloads, Makes Its API Public	CamFind, the visual search app that wants to be a faster and more accurate alternative to Google Goggles, recently hit two milestones. Its iOS app just crossed a total of one million downloads (an Android version will be released in two mon...
Oct 6, 2013	TextTeaser Lets Developers Integrate Text Summarization Into Their Apps And Sites	TextTeaser is a service that creates tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summaries for lengthly online articles. Available as a Web service and API on Mashape, TextTeaser’s developers also want to turn it into the “imgur of text summarization” by...
Apr 28, 2013	Facebook And The Sudden Wake Up About The API Economy	What a two weeks it’s been. Something happened that has been simmering for a while. The API market exploded. Intel bought Mashery for more than $180 million and CA acquired Layer 7. 3Scale received a new $4.2 million round of funding from J...
Dec 10, 2012	Imgur Expands Its Revenue Streams With Latest API Update, Now Ready For Commercial Use	Imgur, the popular photo-sharing site among users of Reddit, Digg and Facebook, is today announcing an overhaul of its API in an effort to make it easier for developers to build applications using Imgur’s infrastructure. The company had alr...
Nov 11, 2012	5 Rules For API Management	APIs are the glue that connect apps. It’s as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise. As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better...
Jul 30, 2012	The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs In Tow	Augusto Marietti, Marco Palladino and Mike Zonca founded Mashape in November 2010 to create a unified, all-in-one marketplace where one could go to find, sell, distribute, and hack on APIs, believing that APIs would become an essential part...
Sep 8, 2011	Mashape Turns Down Acquisition Offers; Raises Seed Round From Big Name Investors	APIs are hot. Twitter attracts 15 billion API calls per day, and Saleforce.com receives 50 percent of its traffic through its API, to site a few big name examples. So here’s a simple thought: If everyone and their mother is beginning to tak...
Sep 6, 2011	Tuesday Funding Roundup: Lanyrd, Mashape, Clean Power Finance	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Regular visitors to the Xconomy website may have noticed that we recently killed off the “News Xpress” box at the top of each city’s home page. The news that formerly appeared...
Sep 6, 2011	Bezos, Schmidt, Ignition and others toss support behind API marketplace Mashape	Some heavy hitters in the technology industry are tossing their support behind Mashape, a San Francisco startup that’s building a marketplace for Application Programming Interfaces or APIs. Among the investors in the company’s $1.5 million ...
Jun 2, 2011	Mashape, The Etsy Of Cloud Services, Goes Beta; Lets You Monetize Your APIs In A Click	Mashape has a somewhat unusual backstory: The Italian startup spent two years looking for funding in its home country, only to be rebuffed at every turn. So, in 2009, it moved operations to Silicon Valley. The team found funding in less tha...
Jun 2, 2011	Mashape, the Marketplace for APIs, Moves to Beta	When Mashape launched in private alpha last year, the startup described itself as the “Etsy for Cloud Services.” The comparison may be apt: Mashape provides a community marketplace where developers can buy and sell their own APIs. But that’...
Apr 4, 2011	Meet The 5 Finalists of the Data 2.0 Startup Pitch	Last week, 25 selected applicants presented to a “group of peers and investors” at the Data 2.0 Pitch Day. From that crop of startups, only five made it past the judges. Today, those five startups took the stage at the Data 2.0 conference i...
Feb 28, 2011	Building an E-Commerce App Made Easy With Tinypay.me’s New API	Tinypay.me is a new e-commerce-as-a-service startup that makes selling your goods and services online a breeze. That’s quite a feat, as while there are lots of e-commerce platforms available, many of them require days (at least) to set up a...
Jan 12, 2011	The Italian entrepreneur who moved his team and got funded in 19 days	Italian entrepreneur Marco Palladino is currently 22 years old – but he was only 19 when he first started looking for funding for his startup. For roughly 2 years, he and his cofounders met with every last investor on the Italian Peninsula ...
Nov 17, 2010	Mashape Launches a Marketplace for APIs	Calling itself the “first ever APIs marketplace” and the “Etsy of Cloud Services,” Mashape launches today with a service that’s meant to make it easier for developers to gain access to cloud services and API components for their projects. M...

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FAQ about Mashape

When was Mashape founded?

Mashape was founded in 2010.

How much funding has Mashape raised?

Mashape has raised $18M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Mashape?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Mashape, among them “Mashape Closes $18M Series B Funding Round” (Mar 24, 2017) and “Term Sheet — Friday, March 24” (Mar 24, 2017).

Is Mashape still active?

Mashape is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 24, 2017.