50 Best Developer APIs Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent developer apis companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 1,605 companies tracked on Fsome.

1,605
Total Companies
$23.3B
Total Funding
$14.5M
Avg Funding
San Francisco
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Deepgram
Deepgram provides a voice artificial intelligence platform for speech-to-text, t…
San Francisco $215.9M Series C 2026-01-13
2
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI company that offers tools for speech synthesis, voice clonin…
New York $781.0M Series D 2026-02-04
3
Privy
Privy provides infrastructure for building on crypto rails, allowing for secure …
New York 11 - 50 $41.3M Series Unknown 2025-03-19
4
LangChain
LangChain is a platform that provides open-source frameworks and tools for engin…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $160.0M Series B 2025-10-20
5
Kong
Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer p…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $344.1M Series E 2024-11-19
6
Edera
Edera is an enterprise infrastructure security company that offers secure-by-des…
Seattle 11 - 50 $20.0M Series A 2025-02-25
7
Alpaca
Alpaca is a financial system platform that allows developers and businesses to b…
Tokyo 251 - 500 $328.8M Series D 2026-01-14
8
Fern
Start with an API spec. Generate SDKs in multiple languages and API documentatio…
New York 11 - 50 $22.3M Series A 2025-04-10
9
Parallel
Parallel develops systems for AIs to efficiently interact with the web.
Palo Alto 11 - 50 $160.0M Series A 2025-11-12
10
Salt Security
Salt Security provides an API protection platform designed to prevent attacks by…
Palo Alto 101 - 250 $271.0M Series Unknown 2022-09-19
11
Runware
Runware provides an API platform that enables developers and businesses to integ…
London 11 - 50 $66.0M Series A 2025-12-11
12
Stream
Stream builds chat and feeds for applications at scale in a fraction of the time…
Boulder 101 - 250 $58.1M Series B 2021-03-04
13
Paragon
Paragon is an embedded integration platform for SaaS apps, enabling companies to…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $21.2M Series Unknown 2024-10-29
14
Solo.io
Solo.io delivers cloud-native API and service mesh solutions, built on Istio and…
Cambridge 101 - 250 $171.5M Series C 2021-10-07
15
Firecrawl
Firecrawl is an API service that designs structured data for integration.
San Francisco 1 - 10 $14.5M Series A 2025-08-19
16
Arcade.dev
Arcade.dev helps AI Agents securely connect to APIs, data, and other systems
South San Francisco 11 - 50 $12.0M Seed 2025-03-18
17
OPSWAT
OPSWAT is a Critical Infrastructure Protection CIP Cybersecurity for ICS and OT …
Tampa 501 - 1K $125.0M Private Equity 2021-03-31
18
SmartBear
SmartBear is a developer of enterprise-class software development and testing to…
Somerville 501 - 1K $25.0M Private Equity 2020-10-21
19
LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex enables enterprises to build AI Knowledge Assistants, improving data …
San Francisco 1 - 10 $29.5M Non Equity Assistance 2025-10-08
20
Reducto
Reducto is an AI-driven API that specializes in converting unstructured document…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $108.4M Series B 2025-10-14
21
Mondu
Mondu is a fintech company that offers B2B payment services.
Berlin 101 - 250 $239.5M Debt Financing 2025-12-10
22
Kaltura
Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries.
New York 501 - 1K $166.1M Series F 2016-08-08
23
Treasury Prime
Treasury Prime is a Banking-as-a-Service company that connects banks and FinTech…
San Francisco 51 - 100 $71.5M Series C 2022-09-09
24
Sendbird
The omnichannel AI agent platform for delightful customer service.
San Mateo 251 - 500 $220.7M Series Unknown 2022-01-01
25
StackHawk
StackHawk is an API and application security testing platform that enables detec…
Denver 11 - 50 $47.3M Series B 2025-05-22
26
Tealium
Tealium is a provider of customer data orchestration tools aimed to address chal…
San Diego 501 - 1K $263.9M Series Unknown 2022-10-03
27
Avo
Avo is a leading data quality platform for product analytics. Adobe, Fender & Ik…
Walnut 11 - 50 $4.5M Angel 2021-01-01
28
Symbl.ai
Symbl.ai is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that is democratizing access …
Seattle 51 - 100 $23.6M Series A 2021-11-05
29
Agave
Agave provides a unified API for data access across various construction softwar…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $3.4M Seed 2023-08-30
30
Postman
Postman is a software company that offers a platform for the users to design, de…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $433.0M Series D 2021-08-18
31
WorkOS
WorkOS is a unified platform with modern APIs and SDKs for enterprise-ready feat…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $195.0M Series C 2026-03-02
32
E2B
E2B develops a cloud infrastructure tailored for AI agents and applications.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $35.0M Series A 2025-07-28
33
Bestow
Bestow is a life insurance SaaS company that utilizes advanced technology and da…
Dallas 101 - 250 $302.5M Series D 2025-05-13
34
Metaplane
Metaplane ensures everyone trusts your business' data with automatic anomaly det…
Boston 101 - 250 $24.7M Series Unknown 2024-05-15
35
AirOps
AirOps enables businesses to build AI-powered content workflows combining multip…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $62.5M Series B 2025-11-10
36
DuploCloud
DevOps-as-a-Service. No-code and low-code infrastructure automation for cloud se…
San Jose 101 - 250 $49.5M Series B 2023-11-29
37
Turnkey
Turnkey is a crypto wallet infrastructure company that enables embedded wallets …
New York 11 - 50 $52.5M Series B 2025-06-09
38
Sila
Sila is the leading money API for fintech. An API platform that provides banking…
Portland 51 - 100 $20.7M Series A 2021-07-26
39
Recall.ai
Recall.ai provides unified APIs and SDKs to capture, transcribe, and analyze rec…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $50.7M Series B 2025-09-04
40
Merge
Merge is one API to add hundreds of integrations to your product
San Francisco 101 - 250 $74.5M Series B 2022-10-24
41
Monogoto
Monogoto is an API-driven cellular infrastructure-as-a-service enabling IoT conn…
Chatsworth 11 - 50 $38.0M Series A 2024-10-15
42
FrankieOne
FrankieOne connects with hundreds of different data sources to provide a complet…
Melbourne 51 - 100 $32.0M Series A 2022-11-28
43
Kevel
Kevel is a developer of ad-serving APIs to help developers build server-side ad …
Durham 51 - 100 $45.1M Series C 2024-03-07
44
emnify
EMnify is the leading cloud building block for cellular communications in the Io…
Berlin 101 - 250 $79.9M Series B 2022-01-20
45
Hydra Host
Hydra offers a bare metal GPU platform, connecting businesses to a vareity of in…
Miami 11 - 50 $10.6M Seed 2025-02-10
46
Kernel
Kernel is a developer platform that provides Crazy Fast Browser Infrastructure f…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $22.6M Series A 2025-10-09
47
Apollo GraphQL
Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software with a declarative, graph-…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $183.2M Series Unknown 2022-03-01
48
Sohar Health
Sohar Health automates insurance verification for behavioral health providers wi…
New York 1 - 10 $3.8M Seed 2023-09-29
49
Tyk
Tyk is an open source API gateway and management platform that provides on-premi…
London 101 - 250 $40.0M Series B 2021-09-15
50
Equixly API Security
Europe's Top-Tiered Agentic AI Hacker, Mastering API Security Testing
Florence 11 - 50 $13.3M Series A 2025-12-09