Speakeasy
Speakeasy accelerates innovation by making it radically simple to create and consume APIs. The company's mission is to ensure every API has up-to-date interfaces that make integration easy, simplifying API development through automated code generation and integration platforms.
Founding Story
Speakeasy was founded to solve the 'final mile problem' of API integration. While companies like Stripe and Twilio have the resources to build great developer experiences, most API teams struggle with manual SDK creation, stale documentation, and technical debt. The founders experienced this problem firsthand at both startups and large companies. Before the official launch in June 2023, the team had already built 4,000 SDKs, starting with a team of nine people who were passionate about building developer tools.
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Leadership
Founders
Sagar Batchu
Co-Founder and CEO. Previously Director of Engineering at LiveRamp SafeHaven (2020-2021), with earlier roles as Engineering Lead for Privacy Applications and International Markets at LiveRamp. Before that, Software Engineer at Enlighted Inc and PotaVida. Attended Harvey Mudd College. Member at South Park Commons (2021-2022) and Engineering Mentor at Plato.
Simon Yu
Co-Founder and COO. Previously held product roles at Flexport (2021-2022) and SafeGraph (2016-2019). Earlier experience includes Senior Product Manager at VMware (2012-2013), Associate at Francisco Partners (2009-2012), and Associate at The Boston Consulting Group (2007-2009). Attended Harvard Business School.
Executive Team
Sagar Batchu
Co-Founder and CEO
Previously Director of Engineering at LiveRamp SafeHaven, with extensive engineering leadership experience
Simon Yu
Co-Founder and COO
Product management experience at Flexport and SafeGraph, with consulting background at BCG and private equity at Francisco Partners
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based pricing with tiered plans based on SDK generation, API usage, and features. Revenue comes from monthly/annual subscriptions for SDK generation per language, Terraform provider generation, and MCP server hosting.
Pricing Tiers
250 operations per language, SDK & MCP generation, auto-publish to package manager, access to OpenAPI toolchain, community Slack support, license for 1 language
250 operations per language, OAuth support, webhooks and SSE, docsite integration, dedicated Slack support, includes all Free features
All Business features plus: concierge onboarding & migration, SLAs for service and support, SSO and audit logs, customizable to requirements
Target Markets
- API platform companies
- SaaS companies with public APIs
- Developer tools companies
- FinTech companies
- AI and machine learning platforms
- Enterprise IT and telecommunications
- Automated SDK creation for API platforms
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform providers
- AI agent integration via MCP servers
- API developer experience enhancement
- Multi-language SDK distribution
- Enterprise API management
- Gusto
- Mistral AI
- Vercel
- Verizon
History & Milestones
Ruby SDKs support for Ruby 4.0
Ruby SDK Generation public beta release
Achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance
Launched MCP (Model Context Protocol) server generation from OpenAPI
Released persistent edits feature for arbitrary custom code in generated SDKs
