MuleSoft, LLC. is a

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company headquartered in

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, California, that provides integration software for connecting applications, data and devices. Started in 2006, the company's Anypoint Platform of integration products is designed to integrate

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(SaaS),

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s and other platforms. On May 2, 2018,

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acquired Mulesoft for $6.5 billion in a cash and stock deal.

History

Ross Mason and Dave Rosenberg founded MuleSource in 2006. The "mule" in the name comes from the drudgery, or "donkey work," of data integration that the platform was created to escape. The company changed the name to MuleSoft in 2009. The company originally provided

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and messaging, and later expanded to provide an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) approach for companies through its main product, Anypoint Platform. In April 2013, the startup announced $37 million in Series E financing in a round led by

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, with participation from new strategic investor

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, and existing investors

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is an American software and web focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Its founders include John Hummer and Ann Winblad. The firm was an early investor in Napster, the first popular file ...

Morgenthaler Ventures Morgenthaler is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the US investing through both venture capital and leverage buyout transactions. Morgenthaler operates two connected private equity businesses:Robin Bellas (partner at Morgent ...

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, Meritech Capital Partners,

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(formerly SAP Ventures) and Bay Partners. The round brought MuleSoft's total financing, over the course of seven funding rounds, to $259 million. In April 2013, MuleSoft acquired

ProgrammableWeb ProgrammableWeb is an information and news source about the Web as a programmable platform. It is a subsidiary of MuleSoft and has offices in San Francisco, CA. The website publishes a repository of web APIs, mashups, and applications, and has doc ...

, a website used by developers to help build web, mobile and other connected applications through APIs. In 2016, MuleSoft was ranked #20 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. In February 2017, the company filed for an

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and began trading on the

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on March 17, 2017. In March 2018,

announced it was buying MuleSoft in a deal reported to be worth US$6.5B. In May 2018, Salesforce completed acquisition of MuleSoft.

Products

MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform includes various components such as Anypoint Design Center, which allows API developers to design and build APIs; Anypoint Exchange, a library for API providers to share APIs, templates, and assets; and Anypoint Management Center, a centralized web interface to analyze, manage, and monitor APIs and integrations. MuleSoft also offers the Mule runtime engine, a runtime solution for connecting enterprise applications on-premises and to the cloud, designed to eliminate the need for custom point-to-point integration code.

Operations

As of August 2019, MuleSoft has over 1,400 employees and 1,600 customers.

References

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External links

MuleSoft Corporate Site
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