Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino talking at Venture Camp 2012

Marco Palladino talking at Venture Camp 2012
Born (1988-09-12) September 12, 1988
Belgrade
Residence San Francisco, United States
Nationality Italian
Alma mater University of Milan (dropped out)
Occupation CTO of Mashape
Internet Entrepreneur
Known for Co-founding Mashape

Marco Palladino (born September 12, 1988) is a Serbian-Italian inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Mashape, the marketplace for Cloud APIs.

Career

Palladino has been co-founder at MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small piece of personal data (like telephone numbers and credit card numbers).[1] Then he co-founded Mashape, an API marketplace,[2][3] and he moved to San Francisco, USA.[4] The company got an angel round from early YouTube employees in 2010, and a 1.5MM seed round from top Silicon Valley investors, totaling 1.6MM in funding from prominent institutional investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Index Ventures and individuals including Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.[5] As of 2014 over 100,000 developers across more than 100 countries were using Mashape.[6] Later Mashape closed $8.5M in SeriesA co-led by Index Ventures and CRV, with Stanford University participating.

Palladino is also one of the main contributors[7] of Kong, the most popular open-source API Gateway platform as of 2016.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/memboxx
  2. ↑ Mashape, The Etsy Of Cloud Services, Goes Beta; Lets You Monetize Your APIs In A Click
  3. ↑ Monday, July 30th, 2012 (2012-07-30). "The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs In Tow". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  4. ↑ The Italian entrepreneur who moved his team and got funded in 19 days
  5. ↑ Forbes Magazine - Bezos and Schmidt among investors betting $1.5M on young Italians of Mashape
  6. ↑ http://sanfranciscoitaly.com/post/97060305159/an-italian-born-company-is-building-the-api-economy
  7. ↑ "Mashape/kong". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  8. ↑ "Kong's First Birthday - Mashape Blog". 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
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