MuleSoft

MuleSoft is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides integration software for connecting applications, data sources and APIs, in the cloud or on-premises.[1] Started in 2006, the company’s Anypoint Platform of integration products are designed to tie together software as a service (SaaS) and on-premises software.[2][3]

The company originally provided middleware and messaging, and later expanded to provide a integration platform as a service (iPaaS) approach for companies.[4] MuleSoft provides APIhub, a directory that is designed to function as a social network for developers to share updates and information, currently covering more than 13,000 APIs.[5] For consumers and developers, it provides a catalogue of APIs along with an interactive development environment for running basic queries. For API providers, it offers a publishing platform and various tools to automatically generate API documentation.

History

MuleSoft was founded in 2006 by Ross Mason. In April 2013, the startup announced $37 million in Series E financing in a round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from new strategic investor Salesforce.com, and existing investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Bay Partners. The round brings MuleSoft’s total financing to $81 million.[7]

In April 2013, MuleSoft acquired ProgrammableWeb, a web site used by developers to help build web, mobile and other connected applications through APIs.

Greg Schott
CEOGreg is a software industry veteran with over 20 years experience building and leading high growth technology companies from early stage through IPO. Greg was previously Senior Vice President of Marketing at SpringSource. Prior to SpringSource, Greg served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Agile Software (acquired by Oracle) where he led all product management and marketing efforts and helped lead the company through a 600% increase in revenue and IPO. Greg also served as Agile’s Vice President of Corporate Development. Before Agile, Greg served as Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Operations at DG Systems (NASDAQ: DGIT), where he helped build the company from startup to a profitable public company. Prior to DG Systems, Greg was a manager at The Boston Consulting Group, and he also held management and engineering positions at Westinghouse and IBM. Greg holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University.