Iddo Gino

So Rapid API lets developers find APIs online, test them straight in their browser, and connect to them, generally making the entire API connection process a lot easier.

And we also have a marketplace model on top of that, so you can actually pay for those APIs through Rapid, where we make a certain processing fee in the middle.

It's typically from 10 to 25%.

Yeah, it is instead of every developer having to talk to every other API vendor and them having to connect independently.

You kind of get a one-point connection to any API in the world.

So as you read before in the bio, I was actually part of Hacking Generation Y before that, where we did a bunch of hackathons all over the world and kind of helped teenagers hack and learn about programming.

And what we discovered is that A, APIs are really powerful and they can make apps really strong, but B, connecting to them is really difficult.

And at that point, we created the first iteration of Rapid, or the first version, which was pretty much a GitHub repository with a bunch of API wrappers.

And we started noticing that a lot of people were using those wrappers to connect to APIs, and we got a few thousand stars on GitHub.

And at that point, we realized that people need that one-off connection to APIs, and we went on and we built Rapid as it is today.

So it's me and then Miki Haslavsky, who's my co-founder and runs our dev team back in Israel.

So we actually just passed 20 people last week.

So we do all of the engineering back in Israel.

And then here in San Francisco, we do marketing, sales and developer allocation.

I think they started a little lower, but as a lot more tech companies came to Israel, and I think Tel Aviv was the second largest tech ecosystem in the world after San Francisco, the prices have kind of gone up rapidly.

So we've actually just announced our seed round this November, which was led by Andreessen Horowitz.

So back at the day where it was still just an open source project and we took it around those hackathons and helped developers connect to APIs, we actually met with Dov Moran, who is an ex-founder.

He founded M-Systems, an Israeli company, and he put the first money in, which kind of helped us grow Rapid and establish it.

3.5 is kind of like the total, so it includes that previous money rate raised.

It means 148,000 apps or projects are using that to connect.