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Just about every developer wants to create APIs to help other companies connect to their services more easily, but creating and documenting an API is a time-consuming process. Speakeasy<\/a>, an early-stage startup, wants to make that an easier and more automated set of activities.<\/p>\n

Today, the company emerged from stealth with a $7.6 million seed investment.<\/p>\n

Speakeasy co-founder and CEO Sagar Batchu describes his startup as an API infrastructure company, and that means it\u2019s building tools to make it easier to create and distribute APIs, something that is near and dear to him as a developer himself. \u201cWe\u2019ve started by working on an important problem to me, one that I\u2019ve faced a lot myself as a developer, which is really dramatically simplifying how developers are able to ship APIs to end users,\u201d Batchu told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

He sees APIs giving developers a kind of superpower. \u201cAs developers, APIs allow us to take advantage of another company\u2019s capabilities. And so making it really easy to ship those APIs to developers means that we can really help companies accelerate how their products are adopted, as well as we reduce the burden on developers when they integrate with those APIs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While the goal is to build a platform of features eventually to help with that mission, the company is starting with two tools, one to help developers create the APIs, and one to help their users implement them more easily.<\/p>\n

The first piece is called Managed SDKs. Developers provide an Open API spec, and Speakeasy uses AI to help build a complete API for you along with the necessary documentation, reducing the amount of time it takes to complete a task like this to minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeakeasy uses AI to validate and enhance the spec, creates SDKs in the most popular languages, and publishes automatically to package managers. It takes minutes to set up, and SDKs are updated every time the spec changes \u2013 saving developers significant time,\u201d the company explained.<\/p>\n

The second piece is designed to help the developer end user implement that API without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, creating a package using HashiCorp\u2019s popular Terraform tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Speakeasy, API producers can, for the first time, easily create and maintain Terraform providers from an OpenAPI specification \u2013 dramatically reducing engineering burden, while unlocking an entirely new developer community,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

The startup currently has nine employees, but is hiring engineers to help build out the platform further. As he builds the company, Batchu believes being remote will help him find a more diverse workforce. \u201cSo first of all, I think about how adopting a remote-friendly hiring philosophy means that we\u2019ll be able to access more places, more diverse communities. It\u2019s definitely something really important to us. And as we move forward, we will be looking to hire great talent from everywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s round was led by GV with participation from Quiet Capital, Flex Capital, StoryHouse Ventures and Firestreak Ventures. Last year the company raised an additional $3.3 million in a pre-seed round led by Quiet Capital with participation from a host of prominent industry angel investors.<\/p>\n

The Managed SDK piece is generally available starting today. The Terraform piece is available in beta.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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