Augusto Marietti is the co-founder and CEO of Mashape, an API management platform. He grew up in Italy and Milan, studied there but dropped out to found Mashape with no money or connections in the US. He has since raised over $10M from investors like Bezos, Index and CRV. Mashape has offices in SF, Toronto and London and grew its headcount by 2x in 8 months. It offers four main products: Kong API gateway, Gelato developer portal, Galileo API analytics, and an API marketplace. Marietti is in Japan for the first time to enjoy sushi and Kobe beef and discuss how Kong supports the OpenAPI Specification.

1. Tokyo API Meetup
OpenAPI Specification + Mashape
Friday, 22 Jul 2016
Augusto Marietti, Co-Founder/CEO of Mashape
Twitter: @sinzone

2. Who Am I?
• Born in Rome, Italy
• Studied in Milan
• Dropped out for Mashape (CEO)
• Moved to USA
• With no money nor connections
• Raised +$10M
• Bezos, Index, CRV, NEA, Stanford
• Love to cook Italian Food
• History is one of my passions
• Obsessed with Microservices
• Slept on a bench once
• Also slept at Travis Kalanick house
• Ski and Water-polo
• Want to store memory
• First time in Japan!
• Sushi + Kobe beef “the real one”
• I don’t fly, but I have big dreams
• Mother says that it’s always my fault

3. Who is Mashape?
- Building tools for managing the HTTP layer between software and devs
- Founded in 2010
- Offices in SF, Toronto and London
- Grew 2X headcount in 8 months

4. OAI Early Supporters (2015)

5. 4 Main Products

6. Kong - Most Popular API Gateway
Open-Source: https://github.com/mashape/kong

7. Working on Supporting the new OAS
Kong plugin that pre-populates APIs and
Authentications through a “Swagger” file.

8. Gelato - Developer Portal

9. Galileo - API Analytics

10. API Marketplace
Import your Swagger/OAS file to add your
API to the Mashape Marketplace

11. ありがとうございました
Mashape, Inc.