The company behind the API Hub

Rapid was founded in 2015 by Iddo Gino. While helping lead hackathons, Iddo quickly realized there wasn’t a very efficient way to discover and use the wider range of APIs that are available when you need to code something quickly. From that kernel came the formation of Rapid and the API Hub.

Fast forward to today, Rapid has become the world’s largest API Hub. More than 4 million developers have made Rapid their hub of choice where they find, test, and connect to tens of thousands of APIs — all with a single account.

Our Mission

Empower Developers Everywhere to Create Transformative Software

Rapid founded as RapidAPI

Opens US office and secures seed round funding from a16z and SV Angel

Acquires Mashape API Marketplace

Series A with a16z and SV Angel

Series B with M12, a16z, Viola, and Grove, launches RapidAPI for Teams

Introduces RapidAPI Testing and Enterprise Hub

Series C led by Green Bay Ventures and Stripes

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2022

Rapid earns Unicorn Status with $1 billion valuation. Opens European Hub in Berlin. Rebrands to Rapid

Values

At Rapid, we are committed to creating a work environment that gives our team the support and freedom to do their best work. Our values are what unites us and has fostered a culture that remains amazingly strong even as we scale and grow.

Our Leadership Team

Marc Friend

Marc Friend has more than 30 years of experience as CFO, COO, board member, and VC investor, driving the transformation of several SaaS enterprises and consumer internet companies from startups to multimillion-dollar organizations. As a CFO, Marc has been a trusted advisor to boards and CEOs with a focus on scaling operations globally. Marc has a track record of growth, profitability, and successful exits, and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Marc Friend

CEO

Andrey Bukati

As the CTO for Rapid, Andrey leads the technical direction of the company. As part of his role at Rapid, Andrey evaluates new systems and infrastructure, determines the overall architecture of the company’s marketplace and oversees the development of custom solutions for enterprise customers. Previous to Rapid, Andrey held a variety of engineering leadership roles where he was responsible for the design, development, and management of innovative web and mobile-based technologies.

Andrey Bukati

CTO

Paul Friesen

Paul Friesen is CMO at Rapid, the leading API Hub that brings together builders, consumers, and administrators of APIs. Paul has more than 15 years experience leading marketing in developer and technology-oriented SaaS companies. As Head of Marketing for Ecosystem at Atlassian, Paul created the GTM team from the ground up and grew the marketplace to $400M+, leading to a successful IPO. Next as VP of Marketing at Algolia, a search API company, he grew self service by 100%+ YoY and launched an enterprise offering that landed companies like Under Armour, Birchbox, and Zendesk. Most recently Paul was Co-CEO at Panoply, a cloud data platform, where he was responsible for US operations, including marketing, sales, product, customer success, and support, resulting in a successful exit. Paul started his career at Intel in product marketing, where he was responsible for the $6B Xeon business in the Americas.

Paul Friesen

CMO

Wade Wegner

Wade leads Product and Design at Rapid. Wade has spent most of his career building tools and services for developers at developer platform companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Twilio. He is an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to numerous companies across the technology landscape.

Wade Wegner

CPO

Natalie Douvos

Natalie Douvos is VP of Customer Success at Rapid, leading the Customer Success Management, Technical Account Management, Product Support, and Education teams. Natalie has built a career leading global customer-facing teams at a variety of SaaS companies serving enterprise needs, including Salesforce, AppDirect, Bugsnag (acquired by Smartbear), and Rasa.

Natalie Douvos

VP of Customer Success

Jason Hudak

Jason is the VP of Engineering at Rapid. He brings 25 years of platform experience, leading engineering organizations at Twilio, Yahoo!, and Broadcast.com. Jason is an advisor to a number of technology companies including PagerDuty, DataDog, and ITK

Jason Hudak

VP of Engineering

Alex Walling

As Field CTO, Alex is responsible for a team of sales engineers, partnering with the sales executives at Rapid to successfully win enterprise deals for the company. After holding a number of different roles at RapidAPI, Alex’s ability to speak about the product and company strategy from a technical perspective is vital to the sales strategy. Alex joined the RapidAPI team after meeting the team at a hackathon they were sponsoring and immediately recognizing the value that RapidAPI was providing to developers all over the world.

Alex Walling

Field CTO

Brian Gibbons

Brian Gibbons is the head of HR for Rapid. In this role, he is responsible for managing the company's organizational needs, developing compensation strategies, succession planning, and maintaining a talent pipeline that aligns with our culture and values. Brian brings a wealth of HR leadership and experience to the company, having held roles at major companies such as Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft.

Brian Gibbons

Head of HR

Come join our team

We are always looking to bring new talent on board across our global hubs - San Francisco, Berlin, and Tel Aviv. Ready to drive the next wave of the API economy? Apply today.

"I’m proud to be working in a collaborative and ambitious team, building tools that supercharge developers’ API workflow."

Yenny Cheung

Senior Director of Engineering, Germany

"APIs are at the core of modern companies - services and products, hardware or software. APIs help companies scale and collaborate - Rapid is at the center of this!"

Amir Fischer

Technical Account Manager, Israel

"APIs enable developers to leverage each other’s work so they can focus on the values they create. This increases efficiency and productivity. Rapid is in the middle of all this as a hub and tool that helps developers create APIs."

Stanis Giovanni

Product Owner

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