# Speakeasy: Developer APIs, San Francisco, United States

> Speakeasy: Speakeasy is Developer Experience for APIs. Based in San Francisco, United States. Founded 2022.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/speakeasy-2 (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Speakeasy

Speakeasy is Developer Experience for APIs.

Funding reported Last round: Seed

Developer APIs San Francisco, United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2022 4 years old
- **Team:** 11 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** $11M in dollars
- **Last round:** Seed Jun 2023

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Speakeasy has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Speakeasy

Speakeasy is Developer Experience for APIs.

Speakeasy gives your users the tooling to make API integrations easy.

## What company datasets say Speakeasy raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **$11M** in dollars

Rounds **2**

Last round **Seed**

Last round date **Jun 2023**

Investors listed **12**

## Founders and team

From Speakeasy's own website: 6 founders, 21 on the team.

**Auren Hoffman** Founder, CEO at Safegraph

**Clint Sharp** Co-founder and CEO at Cribl

**Marc Laventure** Co-founder, CEO at Scalar

**Sagar Batchu** Co-founder, CEO

**John Kodumal** Co-founder, CTO at LaunchDarkly

**Hector Hernandez** Founding Head of GTM

- **Amit Agarwal** President at Datadog
- **Søren Bramer Schmidt** CEO at Prisma
- **Tod Sacerdoti** CEO at Pipedream
- **Mohsin Hussain** CTO at LiveRamp
- **Todd Berman** CTO at Attentive
- **Ash Godfrey** Head of Generator Product
- **Eleanor Dorfman** Head of Sales at Retool
- **Katrina Sanzi** Head of Sales
- **Thomas Rooney** Head of Engineering & Security
- **Alex Martin** Design Engineer
- **Brad Cypert** Product Engineer
- **Daniel Kovacs** Product Engineer
- **David Danialy** Product Engineer
- **Dennis Babyak** Product Engineer
- **Laura Sanz** Business Operations Manager
- **Laurence Buettner** GTM Analyst
- **Quinn Stearns** Product Engineer
- **Qynn Schwaab** Product Engineer

And 3 more on the team.

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [HMC INQ](https://millionrounds.com/fund/hmc-inq)

Each firm lists Speakeasy on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## How it ended, so far

Exit

Exit Buyer Price When

Acquired [Best Buy](https://millionrounds.com/fund/best-buy) $97M Mar 2007

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