We’ve invested in StackOne to make API integration for SaaS distributors quicker, simpler, and safer. It’s a pleasure to speculate as soon as once more alongside our associates at Episode 1, Portfolio Ventures and a formidable record 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 crew and understanding the ache they’re fixing, it turned clear we would have liked to accomplice with Romain and Guillaume for the following stage of their journey.

APIs, or Software Programming Interfaces, are the connectors that permit totally different software program programs to speak and share knowledge. Companies in the present day depend on a fancy, interconnected net of many alternative software program functions to run their operations. These functions usually must alternate info 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 activity that consumes builders’ time. It not solely slows companies down but additionally loses them income after they can’t serve sure shoppers as a result 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 persistently expressed a need to outsource this work, citing complexity and useful resource drain.

StackOne is altering that by simplifying API integration for software program distributors. It supplies a single API that means that you can entry your whole addressable market — now not saying “no” to prospects. This unified API standardised knowledge fashions and endpoints for whole classes of merchandise corresponding to ATS, CRM, Advertising and marketing, and HRIS. Companies solely must construct as soon as to combine with all of the instruments their prospects use. In consequence, they’ll deal with core product improvement, iterate quicker, and increase their buyer base by providing a wider vary of built-in options. Engineering groups can neglect the times of managing API sprawl.

The marketplace for API integration options is huge, with untapped potential. Most firms nonetheless construct them in-house, incurring excessive prices and slowing down the core tech roadmap.

SaaS firms are demanding an alternate. Prime-down market experiences put API administration providers within the tens of billions.

Nevertheless, we imagine StackOne’s unified and privacy-first method will increase the market even additional: constructing outsourced integrations in locations that have been beforehand thought-about ‘too troublesome’ or ‘too delicate’. They’ve a novel method to turning into class leaders on this thrilling and quickly rising market.

StackOne’s unified API platform simplifies integration with a number of third-party APIs. Standard strategies require constructing and sustaining separate connections individually. StackOne supplies a centralised resolution, lowering complexity and streamlining the combination course of.

StackOne’s know-how permits real-time knowledge entry, with knowledge pulls taking simply seconds. This units it other than opponents, a few of which have longer synchronisation occasions, offering customers with up-to-the-minute knowledge for knowledgeable decision-making. It additionally permits bi-directional integrations (learn and write) that are very restricted with opponents.

StackOne has designed its system with a security-first method. Not like 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 permits 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 method to enterprise constructing. Each are deeply technical and we imagine 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 focusing 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 crew of 70, and, at Google, he incubated and constructed $1 billion merchandise. He has been distinctive in each position he has held.

Guillaume is a business CTO who can simplify advanced ideas and align know-how with enterprise targets. He earned a pc science diploma from EPITECH, after which met Romain ~10 years in the past at Maxymiser. He shortly progressed to VP of Engineering at Yieldify and is the architect of the distinctive method which is important to StackOne’s product.

As they enter 12 months two, StackOne’s crew proceed to construct out their catalogue beginning with HRIS, ATS, Advertising and marketing Automation, and CRMs at velocity.

Their imaginative and prescient is for a completely customisable LLM-powered integration platform that builders love.

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For those who’re searching for an answer to the trouble of constructing and sustaining API integrations on your product, you’ll be able to attain out to the StackOne crew instantly right here.

For those who’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 crew at Playfair right here.

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