The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners bringing the company’s total funding to $21 2 million to date Since launching the first solely dedicated platform for integrating APIs two years ago Cloud Elements revenue has increased by nearly 40 percent quarter-over-quarter making it the fastest growing API management vendor in the industry During this time the company has established a unique approach to API integration enabling developers to seamlessly unify all the APIs they work with whether the APIs are from other cloud services connected things or enterprise applications
APIs are what enable businesses to really embrace digital transformation Gartner’s CIO Agenda Survey found that an estimated 28 percent of a CIO’s budget is going toward digitalization by ‘ said Tom Roberts a general partner at Harbert and new Cloud Elements board member Cloud Elements has been a pioneer in establishing this new space of enabling all APIs to work together which is reinforced by their fast growth since they’ve launched their platform We’re excited to support their next-generation initiatives for the modern business and are to see where they lead ‘
Over the past few years the industry has witnessed exponential growth in public and private APIs Businesses now rely on APIs as a critical component of daily operations and the number of APIs needed per business will only continue to rise leading to higher costs and delays for go-to-market strategies customer programs and more said Mark Geene co-founder and CEO of Cloud Elements Our vision for the next generation of digital business is to unify the world of APIs in such a way that makes it easy for businesses to quickly and seamlessly integrate applications of any kind at a much lower cost – something that has only been a daydream of developers until now ‘
At the time of the company’s Series A funding in , Cloud Elements offered only a handful of API integrations Today the company has a catalog of more than 120 pre-built API connectors with plans to continue the momentum of product development with the new funding Additionally the new funding will enable Cloud Elements to align with its customers first core business strategy which focuses on priorities for existing customers such as customer success organization support and delivery Cloud Elements will invest dollars in growing its Denver employee base as well as in sales marketing and brand reach Rally Ventures Access Ventures and Grotech Ventures also participated in the Series B funding round
In , Cloud Elements hit several major milestones including
In November Cloud Elements introduced APIs that can be distributed to marketplaces like the Amazon Web Services AWS API Marketplace
Cloud Elements announced a strategic partnership with Sage in July to enable third-party developers to create a powerful cloud accounting platform
Cloud Elements award wins Denver Gazelle one of the city’s fastest growing companies of ; top workplace in Outside Magazine’s The Best Places to Work ‘ for second consecutive year Stevies Top Employer of the Year for software companies with up to 250 employees
Inclusion in Gartner Magic Quadrants Full Life Cycle API Management , Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service Worldwide , and Application Services Governance 2015
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About Cloud Elements
Cloud Elements is a cloud API management and integration service that enables developers to publish integrate aggregate and manage their APIs through a unified platform Cloud Elements integration toolkit enables developers to connect entire categories of cloud services e g CRM Documents Finance or synchronize data between multiple cloud services e g Salesforce Zendesk and Quickbooks Cloud Elements is headquartered in Denver CO and has offices in San Francisco and Dallas serving customers worldwide Find more information about Cloud Elements at www cloud-elements com
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