The state of the API Industry 2021 : a study on 1000+ API companies
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Apidays maps 1,021 API companies and reports $174.5 billion total investment across lifecycle platforms, back-end tools, B2B APIs and vertical aggregators, with API management and gateways drawing the biggest share and open source challengers growing fast. Examples include Stripe valued at $105B and Twilio at ~$60–80B, Segment acquired for $3.2B, and Mulesoft bought for $6.5B, while new niches appear in open banking, API security as a standalone market and low code citizen developer tooling.
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chapters (36)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:55Publications
- 1:40Landscape
- 6:35Actors
- 7:15API Lifecycle Platforms
- 7:55Funding
- 8:25New challengers
- 8:50Backend tools
- 9:35API funding
- 10:10New players
- 10:50API as a service
- 12:10Funding for API companies
- 13:15Ipass
- 14:15Database of Service
- 14:35Vertical APIs
- 15:20Human API
- 15:50Trends
- 16:50Consolidation
- 18:20Open Source
- 19:30Regulation
- 20:45Healthcare
- 21:25GDPR
- 23:00Access Act
- 23:30Regulations
- 25:00Open Insurance
- 25:30Security as a standalone product
- 27:05Digital transformation
- 28:00API security
- 29:05As a service economy
- 29:45The Industrial Revolution
- 32:00Business Process as a Service
- 32:25Notable companies
- 33:45Standardization
- 36:15Low Code
- 36:35Automation Tools
- 39:05Summary
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