API-FIRST COMPANIES OF 2021

API-first companies, also known as API vendors, are companies that sell third-party APIs to companies.

If APIs are hot, API-first companies are the handy hunks that make life easier. Here are 5 of the hottest API-first companies of 2021

STRIPE

Stripe is an API-first company that provides APIs to process payments, instalments, subscriptions and much more.

TWILIO

Twilio provides APIs to products that enables them to send and receive messages, phone calls and texts. PS - Remember the texts your Uber driver sends?

ALPACA

Alpaca is a startup that allows companies to add trading functionality to their products via it’s APIs

OKTA

Okta is an organisation that allows companies to develop and manage user authentication functions into their applications. Super useful!

SEGMENT

Segment is a data management company that allows users to collect, clean and control events data via their APIs.

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