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The Patient Portal Was Never the Point
Osana tried to sell affordable healthcare. Then it discovered the more interesting business was fixing the machinery underneath it - one appointment, API, and anxious patient at a time.
Paul Copplestone Bet on a 40-Year-Old Database - Then AI Came Knocking
Supabase began with a stubborn idea: the easiest backend should also let developers leave. Six years, millions of builders, and one AI coding wave later, Paul Copplestone is still making the case for open infrastructure.
Connectbase Wants to Turn Telecom's Spreadsheet Swamp Into One Click
The fiber business still runs on stale building lists, email chains and quotes that arrive after the buyer has moved on. Connectbase is betting that location truth, shared APIs and a two-sided network can turn that administrative drag into software - but only if the industry's data and partners show up.
Afficiency Found the $10 Billion Insurance Shortcut: Help the Agent, Skip the Exam
Life insurance’s first digital bet was to remove the agent. Afficiency took the more useful route - remove the paperwork, keep the human, and turn a process measured in weeks into one sitting.
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.
Tarabut
Tarabut (formerly Tarabut Gateway) is the MENA region's first and largest regulated open banking platform, connecting a network of banks and fintechs through a universal API. Founded in Bahrain by Abdulla Almoayed and now headquartered in Riyadh, the company provides banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, account-to-account payments, and data-driven credit tools that let financial institutions and businesses build personalized financial products across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.
Corti
Corti is a Copenhagen-based healthcare AI company that builds clinical-grade models and APIs helping developers and health systems automate medical conversations. Its Symphony model powers speech-to-text, medical coding, clinical note generation, and agentic workflows, serving roughly 100 million patient interactions a year across providers, insurers, EHR vendors, and public-safety dispatch centers - including the NHS. Corti positions itself as privacy-compliant, healthcare-specialized infrastructure that outperforms general-purpose models on medical tasks.
Speakeasy
Speakeasy is a San Francisco developer-infrastructure company that turns an OpenAPI specification into production-grade, type-safe SDKs across ten-plus languages, then keeps them in sync automatically as the API changes. Founded in 2022 by Sagar Batchu and Simon Yu, it has expanded from SDK and Terraform-provider generation into an AI control plane for the Model Context Protocol - products like Gram and the MCP Gateway let companies expose their APIs as governed tools for AI agents. Speakeasy has raised roughly $26 million, including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures in 2024, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, Clerk, Kong, Fivetran, Airbyte, and SolarWinds among its customers.
Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick is the founder, CEO and President of Sirqul, Inc., a Seattle IoT company built around an Engagement-as-a-Service platform of hundreds of APIs and patented edge devices. An MIT Media Lab alum and TR35 honoree with 41 issued patents, he helped launch Amazon Anywhere and co-founded Amazon Web Services and the AWS Marketplace before scaling the voice startup Snapvine past 5 million users. He is also an author and music producer.
Vesta
Vesta is a San Francisco-based B2B SaaS company building the next-generation loan origination system (LOS) for the mortgage industry. Founded in 2020 by ex-Blend engineers Mike Yu and Devon Yang, Vesta replaces legacy mortgage software with a cloud-native, open, rules-driven platform that lets lenders configure workflows, automate compliance checks, and integrate with 40+ ecosystem partners - all without custom code. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Pennymac, Vesta tripled its loan volume and customer count year-over-year through 2025.
Shannon Goggin
Shannon Goggin is the co-founder and CEO of Noyo, an API-first company building modern data infrastructure for the employee benefits industry. After watching benefits data break down behind the scenes at Zenefits, she and co-founder Dennis Lee launched Noyo in 2017 to fix the plumbing that connects insurance carriers, benefits platforms, and the people who depend on accurate coverage. She has raised more than $57 million for the company, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020, and calls her approach 'collaborative disruption' - rebuilding an entrenched industry by understanding it rather than ignoring it.
RS Software
RS Software is a payments-focused technology company headquartered in Kolkata, India, with a US office in Milpitas, California. Founded by Raj Jain, the firm has spent more than three decades building payment infrastructure for banks, processors, networks and central institutions. It is the team that engineered core pieces of India's public payments stack, including the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) for NPCI, and today offers a suite of cloud-native, API-led products for real-time payments, bill payments, switching, fraud and risk under a Payment Platform as a Service model.
Postman
Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000+ organizations to design, build, test, document and monitor APIs. What began in 2012 as a side-project Chrome extension to debug HTTP requests is now an AI-native, end-to-end API workspace - the connective tissue behind a huge chunk of the modern internet.
Merge
Merge builds the connective infrastructure for modern SaaS and AI: one unified API that lets a product offer hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, ticketing, and accounting integrations - and a newer Agent Handler that gives AI agents secure, observable access to thousands of third-party tools.
Abhijit Kane
Abhijit Kane is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by 20+ million developers and 98% of Fortune 500 companies. A BITS Pilani alumnus, he joined Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti in 2014 to turn a viral Stack Overflow side project into a $5.6 billion company that defines how developers build, test, and collaborate on APIs.
Abhinav Asthana
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by over 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations. Growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, India, he taught himself programming as a child, built virtual tour software before finishing college, and turned a side project Chrome extension into a company valued at $5.6 billion. He moved Postman from Bangalore to San Francisco in 2017 and has raised $433 million in total funding, including a $225M Series D in 2021.
Arun Rajagopalan
Arun Rajagopalan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Motorq, a San Francisco-based connected vehicle data platform that gives enterprises direct access to OEM-embedded vehicle data without any aftermarket hardware. With a career arc that spans vehicle control systems engineering at Robert Bosch, strategy consulting at Booz & Company, and big-data leadership at Mu Sigma, Arun founded Motorq in 2016 to solve a deceptively simple problem: cars are generating enormous amounts of data, but that data is locked inside hundreds of incompatible systems. Motorq unlocks it, normalizes it, and pipes it to fleets, insurers, and OEM dealers through clean APIs. The company has raised $89.3M in total funding, including a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners in February 2022, and now has partnerships with 10 of the top global OEMs covering more than 51 million vehicles.
Gil Feig
Gil Feig is the Co-Founder and CTO of Merge, the unified API platform that lets B2B software companies add hundreds of integrations to their products in days instead of months. He started coding at 12, got a cease-and-desist from Facebook at 16, and launched Merge in the middle of COVID after interviewing 100 companies before writing a single line of code. The company has raised $74.5M, serves 4,000+ customers, and named Feig and co-founder Shensi Ding to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Nathan Stewart
Nathan Stewart is a founding engineer at Merge (merge.dev), the unified API platform that lets B2B SaaS companies connect to hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting, and ticketing systems through a single integration. Based in New York and educated at The Ohio State University, Stewart is a backend developer who joined Merge in its early days and has helped scale the company to over 140 employees and $74.5M in funding. He describes himself as a 'Software Engineer & Puzzle Aficionado,' an apt description for someone building the connective infrastructure that keeps the modern SaaS stack wired together.
Christine Spang
Christine Spang is the co-founder of Nylas, the email, calendar, and contacts API platform that powers scheduling and communication features for thousands of developers and enterprises. A Debian contributor since age 15, MIT computer science alumna, and former Linux kernel engineer at Ksplice/Oracle, she built Nylas from a frustrated attempt to build a better email client into a company that raised $175M and became essential developer infrastructure. She served as Founder & CEO of Nylas through its Series C growth phase before transitioning to the Board of Directors in 2025.
Mike Yu
Mike Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Vesta, a San Francisco-based startup building an AI-driven, cloud-native loan origination system (LOS) for the mortgage industry. A Stanford-trained product strategist who cut his teeth at Blend - where he helped land the Wells Fargo partnership and became the company's first licensed insurance agent - Yu launched Vesta in November 2020 after recognizing that mortgage infrastructure hadn't fundamentally changed since the 1990s. He has raised $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, and Conversion Capital, and was named a 2024 HousingWire Vanguard and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.