Top 15 Developer APIs Unicorns in 2024

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January 22, 2024

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The Developer APIs industry is filled with successful companies that have raised millions of dollars in VC funding that came from some of the top investors in the world.

Many of these successes have turned into unicorns — private companies worth over $1 billion.

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15 Developer APIs Unicorns Companies

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1) Alchemy

Alchemy is a decentralized application development platform that enables businesses to create dependable decentralized applications.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $10.20B (October 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Joseph Lau, Nikil Viswanathan

  • Number of employees: 50-100

  • Funding: $545.00M

  • Funding rounds: 5

  • Number of investors: 51

You can find their website here.

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2) Postman

Postman is the collaboration platform for API development. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use, Postman helps you and your team collaborate faster.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $5.60B (June 2020)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2014

  • Founders: Abhijit Kane, Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $433.00M

  • Funding rounds: 5

  • Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

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3) Checkr

Checkr empowers enterprises to run background checks faster, smarter, and more cost effectively.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $4.60B (September 2019)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2014

  • Founders: Daniel Yanisse, Jonathan Perichon

  • Number of employees: 500-1,000

  • Funding: $559.00M

  • Funding rounds: 9

  • Number of investors: 32

You can find their website here.

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4) DriveWealth

DriveWealth is a digital trading technology company that develops cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.85B (August 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: New Jersey

  • City: Chatham

  • Started in: 2012

  • Founders: Julie Coin, Robert Cortright

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $537.71M

  • Funding rounds: 5

  • Number of investors: 19

You can find their website here.

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5) 5ire

5ire is a blockchain network that brings together sustainability, technology, and innovation to help build the fifth industrial revolution (5IR).

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.50B (July 2022)

  • Country: United Kingdom

  • State: England

  • City: London

  • Started in: 2021

  • Founders: Prateek Dwivedi, Pratik Gauri, Vilma Mattila

  • Number of employees: 51-100

  • Funding: $121.00M

  • Funding rounds: 2

  • Number of investors: 13

You can find their website here.

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6) Kong

Kong is a service connectivity platform that provides the modern enterprise with on-demand services using today’s most popular cloud technologies.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.40B (December 2020)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2007

  • Founders: Augusto Marietti, Marco Palladino, Michele Zonca

  • Number of employees: 250-500

  • Funding: $170.50M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 23

You can find their website here.

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7) Salt Security

Salt Security provides an API protection platform designed to prevent attacks by leveraging machine learning and AI.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.40B (February 2022)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: Palo Alto

  • Started in: 2016

  • Founders: Michael Nicosia, Roey Eliyahu

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $270.74M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 15

You can find their website here.

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8) Tealium

Tealium is the leading provider of customer data orchestration tools that improve the effectiveness of digital marketing using first-party data across advertising, ecommerce and digital analytics.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.20B (February 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Diego

  • Started in: 2008

  • Founders: Ali Behnam, Mike Anderson

  • Number of employees: 500-1,000

  • Funding: $263.90M

  • Funding rounds: 9

  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

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9) Sendbird

Sendbird is a provider of messaging-as-a-service APIs for mobile apps, websites and other platforms.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.05B (April 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Mateo

  • Started in: 2013

  • Founders: Brandon Y Jeon, Forest Lee, Harry Kim, John S. Kim

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $219.64M

  • Funding rounds: 8

  • Number of investors: 21

You can find their website here.

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10) Hasura

Hasura is a software technology company that specialises in developer tooling.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (February 2022)

  • Country: India

  • State: Karnataka

  • City: Bangalore

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Rajoshi Ghosh, Tanmai Gopal

  • Number of employees: 101-250

  • Funding: $136.50M

  • Funding rounds: 4

  • Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

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11) Rapid

Rapid provides the next-generation API platform, allowing developers to create, use, and share APIs.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (March 2022)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2015

  • Founders: Iddo Gino, Mickey Hasalvsky

  • Number of employees: 101-250

  • Funding: $272.50M

  • Funding rounds: 7

  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

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12) Stytch

Stytch improves security and user experience with passwordless authentication.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (November 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2020

  • Founders: Julianna Lamb, Reed McGinley-Stempel

  • Number of employees: 10-50

  • Funding: $126.00M

  • Funding rounds: 3

  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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13) Solo.io

Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (October 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: Massachusetts

  • City: Cambridge

  • Started in: 2017

  • Founders: Idit Levine

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $171.85M

  • Funding rounds: 6

  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

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14) Mux

Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (April 2021)

  • Country: United States

  • State: California

  • City: San Francisco

  • Started in: 2015

  • Founders: Adam Brown, Jon Dahl, Matt McClure, Steve Heffernan

  • Number of employees: 100-250

  • Funding: $173.92M

  • Funding rounds: 8

  • Number of investors: 28

You can find their website here.

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15) Axelar

Axelar is a decentralized communication platform that bridges the divide between blockchain ecosystems, applications, and assets.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (February 2022)

  • Country: Canada

  • State: Ontario

  • City: Waterloo

  • Started in: 2020

  • Founders: Georgios Vlachos, Sergey Gorbunov

  • Number of employees: 10-50

  • Funding: $63.75M

  • Funding rounds: 5

  • Number of investors: 28

You can find their website here.

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