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The API-as-a-marketplace

Version One Ventures

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. What is an API-as-a-marketplace? Just like a traditional marketplace, an API-as-a-marketplace has two sides: suppliers and buyers.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The question is: Can Google develop a new system to keep ad buyers buying if users are anonymous? They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., sectional-sofas) to your browser via a new API. Ad platforms will keep selling inventory. It will get worse. Image source ).

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

It’s changing the landscape of web development, design, apps, business, and everything in between. APIs Are Everywhere! APIs use to be only for the big guys, but now you’re seeing MVPs include APIs and almost everyone on talk to that doesn’t have an API has one on the road map.

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Announcing our investment in Patch, a platform for negative emissions

Version One Ventures

The Patch API gives developers the opportunity to leverage data already captured to neutralize their carbon impact via a diverse selection of carbon sequestration projects. Earlier this year, we introduced the idea of an api-as-a-marketplace. The team is now looking for beta users for their API.

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. You will initially spend majority of time personally working with individual accounts and coaching sales team.