Haystack

Haystack Management Company LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing primarily on the software sector. Over the years, Haystack has made over 200 core investments at the seed stage, with notable successes including companies such as DoorDash, Instacart, and Hashicorp, among others. The firm has demonstrated a strong track record, with 35 of its investments valued at over $100 million and 8 exceeding $1 billion. Haystack continues to lead seed stage investments, seeking to support innovative companies poised for significant growth.

Sanjay Rama

Investor

Semil Shah

Founder and General Partner

Past deals in API

Rutter

Series A in 2022
Rutter is a developer of a universal application programming interface (API) that facilitates integration with various accounting and e-commerce platforms. The company's platform allows businesses to interact with data across major retail e-commerce platforms, enabling them to read and write data related to orders, manage products, and oversee customer information from multiple storefronts. Rutter's offerings include specific APIs for accounting and commerce, which support various use cases such as revenue-based financing, small and medium-sized business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement. By providing a streamlined way to access and manage e-commerce data, Rutter helps businesses enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

Buf

Series B in 2021
Buf Technologies, Inc. is a technology company based in Buffalo, New York, founded in 2020. It specializes in protocol buffer technology, which simplifies the use of client-independent protocols for organizations. Buf offers an API tool that includes a linter to promote effective API design, a detector for breaking changes to maintain compatibility, and a configurable file builder for creating images. This technology alleviates the need for companies to reinvent mechanisms for serializing structured data, allowing them to manage various protocols efficiently. By prioritizing compatibility and design compliance, Buf enables clients to concentrate on their core business functions.

Rutter

Seed Round in 2021
Rutter is a developer of a universal application programming interface (API) that facilitates integration with various accounting and e-commerce platforms. The company's platform allows businesses to interact with data across major retail e-commerce platforms, enabling them to read and write data related to orders, manage products, and oversee customer information from multiple storefronts. Rutter's offerings include specific APIs for accounting and commerce, which support various use cases such as revenue-based financing, small and medium-sized business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement. By providing a streamlined way to access and manage e-commerce data, Rutter helps businesses enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

Pomerium

Venture Round in 2020
Pomerium authenticates, authorize, monitor, and secure user access to any application without a VPN. Pomerium provides a standardized interface to add access control whether an application itself has authorization or authentication baked-in. Let developers focus on their apps, not reinventing access control.

Rutter

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Rutter is a developer of a universal application programming interface (API) that facilitates integration with various accounting and e-commerce platforms. The company's platform allows businesses to interact with data across major retail e-commerce platforms, enabling them to read and write data related to orders, manage products, and oversee customer information from multiple storefronts. Rutter's offerings include specific APIs for accounting and commerce, which support various use cases such as revenue-based financing, small and medium-sized business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement. By providing a streamlined way to access and manage e-commerce data, Rutter helps businesses enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.

Myra Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Myra Labs offers APIs that power Slack and Messenger bots, customer service applications, and others that require sophisticated natural language understanding. Myra Labs is building a conversational experience platform. Our APIs provide scalable and highly tunable machine learning services, including state of the art deep learning models, that understand natural language and conversational state. Our mission is to empower developers to build the highest quality user experiences.
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