WireMock Reels In $6.5 Million

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <u>WireMock<&sol;u> has raised <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;6&period;5 million<&sol;span> in seed funding for WireMock Cloud&comma; the first API developer productivity platform&period; The funding round was led by <u>Ridge Ventures<&sol;u> joined by <u>First Rays Venture Partners<&sol;u> and <u>Scribble Ventures<&sol;u> alongside several angel investors&period; Building on the success of its popular open source API mocking tool&comma; WireMock Cloud fixes the struggles of developing for modern&comma; API-rich architectures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>APIs are vital to modern businesses&comma; enabling them to connect and integrate with platforms and apps from third parties&comma; and internally between their own software and teams&period; According to Gartner&comma;<u> 94&percnt; of organizations either use or are planning to use third-party APIs<&sol;u>&comma; up from just 52&percnt; in 2019&period; However&comma; building software that interacts with APIs is difficult&period; Using live APIs for development can be expensive and won&&num;8217&semi;t always give the full range of responses that the developers need&comma; or the loads for testing at scale&period; Sandboxes offered by API providers&comma; if they exist at all&comma; tend to be unstable&comma; unreliable and slow&period; Dev teams often need to integrate with internal APIs that don&&num;8217&semi;t exist yet&comma; creating bottlenecks in situations such as for frontend teams that are trying to develop in parallel with their backend colleagues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;You can&&num;8217&semi;t build useful integrated software without consuming a lot of APIs&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <u><span class&equals;"xn-person">Uri Maoz<&sol;span><&sol;u>&comma; co-founder and CEO of WireMock&period; &&num;8220&semi;But building&comma; testing and maintaining that software shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have to rely on live APIs or inadequate sandboxes from multiple companies&comma; not to mention under-development internal APIs&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s a terrible model and it makes development slow&comma; expensive and frustrating&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WireMock has created <u>WireMock Cloud<&sol;u>&comma; the first API developer productivity platform for developing and testing software in an API-dependent environment&period; Whether from an OpenAPI specification&comma; by recording API traffic&comma; using an SDK or even created manually&comma; the platform can simulate both third-party and internal APIs quickly&comma; safely and reliably&period; It can even simulate nonexistent APIs still under development&comma; so that different software teams can keep developing simultaneously&comma; especially in microservice architectures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WireMock was co-founded by <span class&equals;"xn-person">Uri Maoz<&sol;span> and <u><span class&equals;"xn-person">Tom Akehurst<&sol;span><&sol;u>&comma; the company&&num;8217&semi;s CTO&period; Akehurst originally created the open source API mocking tool WireMock&period; It now has more than four million monthly recorded downloads of its Java library&comma; 200 contributors and is being used by over 3&comma;000 open source projects<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I built the WireMock OSS because I knew there had to be a better way for developers to develop in an environment where so many API dependencies were holding them back and slowing their delivery&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Akehurst&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;