Aklivity, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based streaming API management company, raised $4.1M in seed funding.
The round was led by 468 Capital with participation from Pear VC, Alumni Ventures and an angel syndicate including former NGINX CEO Gus Robertson and DigitalOcean founder Mitch Wainer.
The company intends to use the funds to grow the team and Zilla, its open source event-driven API gateway.
Founded by CEO Leonid Lukyanov and CTO John Fallows, Aklivity is building a universal API layer for streaming architectures. Its open source universal API gateway, Zilla, provides a unified, external interface to event-driven services and data. Zilla natively supports a range of network and messaging protocols, including Kafka. It can translate between different protocol combinations, enabling it to expose Kafka streams through application level REST APIs, as well as other APIs, such as SSE, MQTT, AMQP, gRPC and WebSocket. But beyond creating streaming APIs, Zilla also helps manage them with streaming-specific authentication, monitoring and cataloging features.. This enables it to expose event-streams to clients over their APIs of choice. Non-Kafka apps can publish and subscribe to Kafka topics without the need for intermediary brokers, services and even Kafka Connect.
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25/05/2022