API management for fast and scalable software
Unkey redefines API management for developers. You can add authentication, analytics, and rate-limiting to your APIs in minutes.
Founded to redefine the API management landscape
Unkey emerged in 2023 from the frustration of James Perkins and Andreas Thomas with the lack of a straightforward, fast, and scalable API management solution. This void prompted a mission to create a tool themselves.
Meet the team
Although we collaborate as a fully remote team, we like to unite for regular offsites. Here are a few moments from our most recent:
Cooking breakfast
Art intensifies
Hard at work
Lunch refuel
Golden hour
Escape room W
James recruiting
Deep in thought
CEO + CTO
Caffeinated
Driven by values
Just as significant as the products we craft is the culture we cultivate - a culture defined by our unwavering commitment to our core values
Quality
We don't meet expectations; we redefine them by doing all the hard work upfront to craft an effortless user experience.
Open company
Our default is to be open rather than closed. Simplicity, transparency, and honesty lead to the best results.
Ownership
Our team members are given a high degree of autonomy to develop, implement, and iterate on their ideas.
Sustainability
We prioritize quality while ensuring our team has a work-life balance that ensures they can deliver maximum value.
Customer obsessed
We ship fast and work together with our users to solve real problems.
Security first
We take security seriously and don't compromise in favour of velocity or user experience.
A few words from the founders
Why we started Unkey and what we believe in.
We're James and Andreas. We founded Unkey with the vision of creating an API management platform that is both powerful and easy to use. We believe that APIs are the building blocks of the modern web, and we want to make it easier for developers to build and manage them.
James Perkins
Founder and CEO
Andreas Thomas
Founder and CTO
Backed by the finest
At Unkey, we're privileged to receive backing from top-tier investors, visionary founders, and seasoned operators from across the globe. Here are just a few of them:
Timothy Chen
Essence VC
Liu Jiang
Sunflower Capital
Allison Pickens
The New Normal Fund
Andrew Miklas
Ex PageDuty CTO
Tom Preston-Werner
GitHub founder
Theo Browne
CEO @ Ping Labs
Paul Copplestone
CEO @ Supabase
Ant Wilson
CTO @ Supabase
Rory Wilding
Head of Growth @ Supabase
Zain Allarakhia
Former CTO @ Pipe
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