Mashery in the News

Mashery Continues Rapid Growth With WhitePages.com Mashup

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick - March 31, 2008

"Mashup management service Mashery launched a new API for WhitePages.com today, allowing developers to fold extensive "people search" into almost any other application. Sample applications included in the release include tools to integrate WhitePages.com lookup into OutLook as a toolbar, a Javascript/Ruby on Rails reverse phone number lookup widget and an integration of location lookup and the Google Maps API."

Cleaning up your API

Written by Peter Varhol - March 16, 2008

".....But you can also outsource a fair amount of the necessary but unloved work to a small but growing set of services providers. One such services provider is Mashery Inc. The company refers to its service as an on-demand API infrastructure, but what it really does is provides the infrastructure surrounding your entire Web service. Mashery can host your Web service and, in doing so, supply some of the areas that are more challenging and less interesting to do on your own."

Mashery Flashes New Clients and Funding

alarm:clock - September 27, 2007

"To our mind APIs are driving the new Web economy...Probably the biggest splash in tech this year came when Facebook opened its APIs. So its no surprise that Mashery is trying to build a business by processing and quantifying APIs. San Francisco-based Mashery announced today that it has secured an undisclosed amount of new funding from Formative Ventures and The Accelerator Group, as well as additional funding from First Round Capital...As Web APIs proliferate, there will certainly be a need for a company traffic cop this intersection and Mashery is well positioned as an independent force."

Mashery Funded: Announces 'The Business of APIs' Event

Written by Shay Nowick - September 27, 2007

Mashery's future-forward API managment platform is set to revolutionize the business of APIs...In an inaugural one-day conference entitled “The Business of APIs”, Dealmaker Media and Mashery are bringing together industry experts who have successfully launched their API distribution channel to share their strategies. Find out why and how they did it, how they measured success, and how you too can rapidly launch your own API program with minimal involvement from your internal development and IT teams...Full details and event information can be found at apiconference.com

Mashery Secures New Funding From Formative Ventures and Accelerator Group to Fuel Customer Growth

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick - September 26, 2007

"Mashery, possibly the coolest company in Silicon Valley that most people have never heard of, announced a Series A funding round tonight. The All-Star crew of angel investors in this "mashup service-provider" are being joined by VCs from two more firms, Formative Ventures and The Accelerator Group."

Mashery Wins First Institutional Round

Written by Paul Bonanos - September 27, 2007

"Mashery has created a distribution platform for application programming interfaces, commonly known as APIs, which are portions of code that are opened up to outside developers. By sharing code, many site publishers have allowed outsiders to create new functionalities or services, termed "mashups," built on top of the original code from one or more sites...Although Web companies can publish their own APIs, Mashery offers a convenient infrastructure to outsource the process..."

Mashery, a Mashup Company, Raises Less Than $5M

Written by Matt Marshall - September 26, 2007

"San Francisco start-up Mashery has raised another round of capital to help Web companies open their platforms so that developers can build applications on top of them. By releasing an API, or Application Programming Interface, a company can allow “mashups” of its data, and gain reach across the Web. Google did this with Google Maps, for example, mixing them with everything from housing to restaurant information. Now all sorts of businesses — banks for example — are doing this with more sensitive information, some of it requiring significant management of terms and conditions."

Mashery: A Web Services Brokerage

Written by Mark Gibbs - November 6, 2006

"The Web API market is still evolving rapidly and how these services will be used is still in flux. In an attempt to bring some commercial structure into what has been as very chaotic segment comes the wonderfully named Mashery. Mashery explains, its services allow “your company to build and control your API channels without burdening in-house staff with the headaches of access control, usage measurement and community management.” In other words, Mashery provides all of the customer-facing functionality and management leaving companies that provide Web services."

Getting Buzz

Victoria Murphy Barret - December 11, 2006

"Mashery...sells tools that help manage APIs, which are the outward-facing software hooks that let developers create new code around existing code. Google Maps, for example, has open APIs so hundreds of non-Googlers can create software projects like a map of Los Angeles with glowing colors indicating live traffic patters. Opening up these software hooks is something of a zeitgeist in technology circles these days. The idea is that by making your software open for others to build on to, you make your software more prevalent and spark creativity."

Mashery API Management Service is Open For Business

Marshall Kirkpatrick - November 6, 2006

"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...I do know that this is a startup that is emblematic of the direction that the best of the web is going."

Mashery Brews Service For Managing APIs

Dan Farber - November 6, 2006

"With APIs increasingly serving as a mechanism to enhance Web applications, Mashery has developed an on-demand service that provides management infrastructure and community building tools for API developers."