# Sagar Batchu

> Sagar Batchu is the co-founder and CEO of Speakeasy, a San Francisco developer-tools company that turns OpenAPI specs into production-grade SDKs, Terraform providers, and MCP servers. A computational physicist by training who spent a decade building data infrastructure - including scaling LiveRamp's London engineering office from zero to 50+ engineers - he started Speakeasy in 2022 with Simon Yu to fix the unglamorous, error-prone work of shipping and consuming APIs. The company has raised roughly $29 million, including a $15 million Series A led by FPV Ventures, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, and Verizon among its users.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Speakeasy
- **Organizations:** Speakeasy, LiveRamp, Enlighted Inc, Plato
- **Education:** B.S. in Physics and Computational Physics, Harvey Mudd College
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Speakeasy, raising roughly $29 million total including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures, Grew LiveRamp's London engineering center from 0 to 50+ engineers as Director of Engineering, Built a platform that has generated over 7,250 SDKs for nearly 3,000 users

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a degree in physics and computational physics
- **2015** — Joined IoT proptech startup Enlighted Inc as a software engineer
- **2018** — After Enlighted's acquisition by Siemens, joined LiveRamp's new London office
- **2020** — Grew into Director of Engineering at LiveRamp, building the London dev center from 0 to 50+ engineers on data infrastructure and privacy
- **2022** — Co-founded Speakeasy with Simon Yu to simplify API creation and consumption
- **2024** — Speakeasy closed $7.6M seed led by GV (total $11M), then a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures
- **2025** — Positioned Speakeasy for the AI era - making APIs accessible to LLMs and agents, with MCP server generation

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Speakeasy, raising roughly $29 million total including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures
- Grew LiveRamp's London engineering center from 0 to 50+ engineers as Director of Engineering
- Built a platform that has generated over 7,250 SDKs for nearly 3,000 users
- Signed customers including Vercel, Mistral AI, and Verizon
- Regular speaker and writer on API design and developer experience (InfoQ, podcasts)

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Speakeasy announced a $15 million Series A led by FPV Ventures, with participation from GV and Quiet Capital.
- **2025-01** — Batchu detailed his vision for making APIs accessible to LLMs and agentic workflows in a Data Innovation interview.

## Links

- Website: https://speakeasy.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sagarbatchu
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC7S64XfR1o

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Last updated: 2026-07-29