French startup Blobr raised a $5.4 million funding round (€5 million) led by German VC firm 10x Founders a couple of months ago. The company calls itself the ‘Shopify for APIs’, which is a good way to sum up what it does indeed. Companies that have an API and want to start selling API access to other companies can use Blobr to run their API store.
“If you have an API, you can easily connect it to Blobr in a few clicks,” co-founder Alexandre Airvault told me. “You can then define your products, define the consumption scenarios of the API. Once you’ve done that, you can build a business model on top of the API.”
In addition to 10x Founders, FJ Labs, another.vc and several business angels like Charles Songhurst, Thibaud Elziere, Quentin Nickmans, Amaury Sepulchre, Mathieu Vaxelaire and Chris Aldelbach also participated in the round. Existing investors New Wave and Seedcamp also put more mone...
