We’ve invested in StackOne to make API integration for SaaS distributors sooner, simpler, and safer. It’s a pleasure to take a position as soon as once more alongside our pals at Episode 1, Portfolio Ventures and a formidable checklist of industry-leading angels.
Hector from Episode 1, first put StackOne and its founders Romain Sestier and Guillaume Lebedel on our radar — thanks, Hector!
After assembly the workforce and understanding the ache they’re fixing, it grew to become clear we would have liked to associate with Romain and Guillaume for the subsequent stage of their journey.
APIs, or Software Programming Interfaces, are the connectors that enable totally different software program methods to speak and share knowledge. Companies as we speak depend on a fancy, interconnected net of many alternative software program functions to run their operations. These functions usually have to trade data with one another, which is the place APIs come into play.
An increasing number of, B2B prospects predict their SaaS instruments to natively combine with one another. However constructing and managing API connections in-house as a software program vendor is a cumbersome process that consumes builders’ time. It not solely slows companies down but in addition loses them income once they can’t serve sure purchasers on account of integration limitations.
The challenges of API integration are widespread throughout the software program {industry}. Firms giant and small grapple with integration complexities. Once we referenced with SaaS founders and tech leaders, they constantly expressed a want to outsource this work, citing complexity and useful resource drain.
StackOne is altering that by simplifying API integration for software program distributors. It offers a single API that lets you entry your total addressable market — now not saying “no” to prospects. This unified API standardised knowledge fashions and endpoints for total classes of merchandise similar to ATS, CRM, Advertising, and HRIS. Companies solely have to construct as soon as to combine with all of the instruments their prospects use. Because of this, they’ll concentrate on core product growth, iterate sooner, and broaden their buyer base by providing a wider vary of built-in options. Engineering groups can overlook the times of managing API sprawl.
The marketplace for API integration options is huge, with untapped potential. Most corporations nonetheless construct them in-house, incurring excessive prices and slowing down the core tech roadmap.
SaaS corporations are demanding an alternate. Prime-down market studies put API administration providers within the tens of billions.
Nonetheless, we consider StackOne’s unified and privacy-first strategy will broaden the market even additional: constructing outsourced integrations in locations that have been beforehand thought of ‘too tough’ or ‘too delicate’. They’ve a novel strategy to changing into class leaders on this thrilling and quickly rising market.
StackOne’s unified API platform simplifies integration with a number of third-party APIs. Typical strategies require constructing and sustaining separate connections individually. StackOne offers a centralised answer, decreasing complexity and streamlining the combination course of.
StackOne’s know-how allows real-time knowledge entry, with knowledge pulls taking simply seconds. This units it aside from opponents, a few of which have longer synchronisation occasions, offering customers with up-to-the-minute knowledge for knowledgeable decision-making. It additionally allows bi-directional integrations (learn and write) that are very restricted with opponents.
StackOne has designed its system with a security-first strategy. In contrast to some opponents that retailer or cache finish buyer knowledge like Workers or CRM alternatives, StackOne doesn’t retain consumer knowledge, enhancing knowledge safety and privateness compliance, which is essential in enterprise and controlled industries.
StackOne makes use of LLMs to permit customers to create customized integrations simply. This allows them to quickly add new software program connections, and can, in future, energy a developer-facing platform to allow absolutely customisable API connectors.
On the core of StackOne’s potential are its founders, Romain and Guillaume. From our first interplay, we’ve been astounded by their drive, consideration to element and their strategy to enterprise constructing. Each are deeply technical and we consider they’ve the talents to execute on their ambitions.
They’ve based collectively earlier than and continued to work collectively at Yieldify. We’re assured that they’re uniquely positioned to construct the enterprise they’re concentrating on.
Romain brings a novel mix of enterprise and technical experience. He launched ContentSquare’s product within the UK earlier than co-founding Higher.ai alongside Guillaume. He rose quickly to VP of Product at Yieldify, managing a workforce of 70, and, at Google, he incubated and constructed $1 billion merchandise. He has been distinctive in each function he has held.
Guillaume is a business CTO who can simplify complicated ideas and align know-how with enterprise objectives. He earned a pc science diploma from EPITECH, after which met Romain ~10 years in the past at Maxymiser. He rapidly progressed to VP of Engineering at Yieldify and is the architect of the distinctive strategy which is essential to StackOne’s product.
As they enter 12 months two, StackOne’s workforce proceed to construct out their catalogue beginning with HRIS, ATS, Advertising Automation, and CRMs at pace.
Their imaginative and prescient is for a totally customisable LLM-powered integration platform that builders love.
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If you happen to’re searching for an answer to the trouble of constructing and sustaining API integrations in your product, you may attain out to the StackOne workforce instantly right here.
If you happen to’re a founder on the very earliest phases of constructing your organization, I’d love to attach and listen to the imaginative and prescient. You’ll find me on LinkedIn or pitch the broader workforce at Playfair right here.
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