![]() ![]() ![]() Other uses include retailers communicating with courier companies or even streaming services like Netflix or Amazon distributing content.Īn API, put simply, is a piece of software that helps two apps to talk to each other. Google or the app does not own the weather data, so they use APIs to source it. For example, when you check the weather on your phone, via a search engine or a weather app, APIs bring that information to you. Today, payments, communication and collaborations are all API-centric. Postman’s API collaboration is also helpful in a cloud-driven era, where more and more companies are saving and accessing data on the cloud than through servers and hardware. Postman is even more relevant for present times as software systems are interacting with each other. It has an understandable and intuitive user interface and helps test APIs without creating code for testing, which was the norm earlier. Postman is targeted at coders, who create, test, and modify application programme interface (APIs). Moneycontrol tried to unravel the mystery and here is what we found: However, not much else is known about Postman. Started in Bengaluru by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane, Postman is headquartered in San Francisco, as is the case with the SaaS firms that serve global customers. Icertis and Druva, also valued at more than a billion dollars, took 10 and 11 years, respectively. Postman took six years to get to the prized billion-dollar billing, the fastest for an Indian software-as-a-service company, eclipsing Freshworks that took eight years and is now valued at $3.5 billion. Software startup Postman is the latest to join India’s unicorn club after it raised $150 million in a Series C round led by US-based Insight Partners at a $2 billion valuation.
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