Mashery API Management Service is Open For Business
Marshall Kirkpatrick
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API management service Mashery has come out of stealth mode tonight and is now offering documentation support, community management and access control for companies wishing to offer public or private APIs. This is an exciting launch.
An API, or Application Program Interface, is the interface that allows developers to leverage some one else’s data or functionality to create mashups. The discourse around data sharing and collaboration has largely moved beyond urging companies to offer APIs - now the task at hand is to make the offering of quality APIs easy. That’s what Mashery offers as a service.
Mashery was founded by former Feedster team members Oren Michaels, Kirsten Spoljaric, Clay Loveless and Scott Rafer. Rafer is also the CEO of MyBlogLog (our coverage). The company was incorporated in May and received under $1 million in backing in June. Investors include Josh Kopelman, Jeff Clavier, Rajeev Motwani, Ron Conway, Ariel Poler, Dave McClure, David Rose, and Scott Kurnit. Kopelman, of First Round Capital, is the lead investor and chairman.
The future is going to be built out of APIs - though still controversial in some quarters today, in time they will be as common as corporate web sites are now. Who’s going to build the series of tubes that makes such a future possible? Mashery is aiming to get into that game early.
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