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Twilio and Stripe are seeing explosive growth in 2020, highlighting a major software industry trend that’s getting gobs of VC investment | Markets Insider
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Whether you know it or not, you probably use apps built with application programming interfaces every day.
APIs are tools that link together data and features from multiple different apps to allow them to essentially “talk” to each other. People can make payments on DoorDash or Postmates thanks to Stripe’s APIs, make calls directly from Airbnb and Yelp’s apps thanks to Twilio’s APIs, and get location updates on Uber thanks to Google Maps’ APIs.
API use has become has become so critical for companies, that there’s been an outcropping of firms that specialize in building APIs specific to categories like security, payments, feature management, search, shipping, content management, databases, and more. And many of those companies are seeing strong growth.
Experts don’t see this growth slowing down either, citing the need for companies to use APIs to build more effective products faster as they move to a cloud-based software model. And as companies move their businesses online during the coronavirus pandemic, the growth of API companies has accelerated, too.
“[Using APIs] unleashes flexibility – the ability for you to take code and help you innovate,” Chee Chew, chief product officer at Twilio, told Business Insider. “It also allows you to take code and change it and adapt readily.”
Developers love APIs because they allow them to build better products, more quickly. They essentially offer developers a prepackaged solution for a given capability that they can easily customize. Sure, developers could build those same functionalities themselves, but they would be starting from scratch on something that has already been created by domain experts.
Using APIs built by companies that specialize in them, like Twilio and Stripe, allows developers to cut out some steps, which speeds up the app-building process, comes with built in reliability, and still allows plenty of flexibility.
“They become building blocks for developers to build on it faster,” the CEO of API development platform Postman, Abhinav Asthana, told Business Insider. “Developers are driven by consumer and business needs. Consumers want broader functionality. [APIs are] the fastest way to build it and focus on what the company is good at.”
About 20 years ago, integrating APIs into your project was a much more complex process, according to Gartner research analyst Mark O’Neill, but it’s become a “hot area” because that has changed.
“APIs as a concept are not new, but what is new is what skills are there, and there’s a lower barrier of entry and more usage for APIs,” O’Neill told Business Insider. As companies like Stripe and Twilio have seen such success, “investor interest” has risen as well, he said.
For instance, startups like Auth0, MessageBird, Netlify, Postman, RapidAPI, Solo.io, Stedi, Strapi, and Stripe have all raised funding this year.
“All these companies that have APIs, like Okta, Atlassian – they have all done really well. In the private markets, it’s similarly reflected. There’s the same kind of buying pattern,” Kurzweil told Business Insider. “There’s more interest now than before.”
API companies also are becoming more specialized. For example, travel API startups like Duffel and Impala have emerged, and the company Foursquare has even transitioned into an API company to provide location data.
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“The more we take this architectural approach of figuring out how we as developers build things as developers, it’s easy to separate out functionality,” Biilmann told Business Insider. “The more we do that, the more opportunities there are to come in and build APIs.”
And it’s not just startups that are leaning into APIs, either. For many tech giants, they have also become a major source of business. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google Cloud build specialized APIs for their services. For example, the Google Maps APIs have become widely used by companies like Uber, Walt Disney, Trulia, Allstate, and more.
Recent years have brought a surge of mega-acquisitions in the space, too.
For example, Adobe acquired the e-commerce API platform Magento and the marketing API company Marketo for a combined $6.4 billion, while Salesforce acquired the API company MuleSoft for $6.5 billion in 2018. Twilio recently acquired the customer data API startup Segment for $3.2 billion.
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“There is a need for bringing this type of connectivity of data and for sharing data between multiple applications and multiple platforms,” Siti Panigrahi, managing director at Mizuho, told Business Insider.
In addition, financial services companies have increasing interest in banking APIs that can help them easily comply with financial regulations. For example, Mastercard is acquiring Finicity and Visa plans to acquire Plaid (although it’s facing an antitrust lawsuit). In both cases, a legacy credit card company is bringing on an API startup.
There’s also a greater need for APIs as even traditionally brick-and-mortar businesses have had to digitize.
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“Almost everything is being digitally driven,” Postman’s Asthana said. “Because of that, there is much more demand for APIs. Every business will have a virtual storefront. That is powered through APIs. They need to build their own software and for that, they need to acquire APIs.”
APIs for digital commerce, healthcare, and logistics have become even more widely used as companies react to the pandemic. In a short time, companies have had to completely re-architect so that their businesses are available online, and building with APIs speeds up that process.
Nearly half of the respondents for Postman’s survey said they will increase their investment of time and resources into APIs over the next year, despite a tough economic environment.
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Blackstone’s betting $6 billion on the rental market – here’s why private-equity loves real estate right now
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- Blackstone is all-in on rent resets and long-term property assets to combat potential inflation.
- Private equity firms have trillions of dollars in cash to put to work on acquisitions.
- Blackstone’s share price ticked over $100 for the first time this month.
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It’s been quite the month for Blackstone.
The private-equity behemoth is part of a consortium of investors that bought Medline for about $34 billion, its share price ticked over $100 for the first time, and it’s doubling down on residential real estate with a $6 billion Home Partners of America buy.
It’s a bet on scorching demand for housing continuing, and also a defensive move as inflation worries start to seep into investors’ minds. The average price of a home topped $350,000 for the first time inn May, according to the National Association of Realtors, logging the largest-ever increase in prices since the NAR began tracking data.
“Whether it’s apartments, storage facilities for warehouse distribution, or single-family homes, private-equity is getting into this as an inflation hedge,” Nicholas Tsafos, a partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, told Insider.
Home Partners, which owns more than 17,000 homes in the US, rents out these properties, but tenants have an opportunity to someday buy the home.
In the single-family rental arena, private-equity firms can hike rents, while also holding onto profitable, tangible assets.
“Because interest rates are low, and with the potential for a pick-up in inflation, private-equity also feels the need to be long on hard assets,” Tsafos said. “In real estate, you buy it today and then flip it for a higher price.”
Jon Gray, Blackstone’s president and COO, alluded to it during the firm’s earnings call in April when he said multi-family apartments that come with the ability to reset rents were key for Blackstone.
The firm bought many houses at remarkable discounts after the housing market crashed in 2007. It accumulated a number of single-family homes through a former portfolio company Invitation Homes. Blackstone sold its final block of shares in the company in 2019.
The private-equity shop also favors logistics spaces, such as warehousing, life sciences offices, and media and studio businesses with offices, according to a June 22 research note from UBS.
In October, Blackstone made a handsome investment when it sold life sciences real-estate company BioMed Realty for $14.6 billion, after acquiring it for about $8 billion in January 2016.
And it’s not just Blackstone. Fellow private-equity investor KKR is investing in My Community Homes, a platform that buys and manages single-family rental properties, according to Bloomberg.
KKR will invest in My Community Homes through its real-estate and private-credit vehicles.
A spokesperson for KKR was not immediately available to comment.
The Carlyle Group said in May that it provided up to $300 million to Four Springs Capital Trust, a private REIT that acquires and manages single-tenant properties with long-term net leases.
Four Springs will use the money to build its portfolio, which encompasses 122 properties across 29 states, Carlyle said in a press release.
The move on real estate comes while private investment firms sit on more than $1 trillion in cash. Borrowing costs, too, remain subdued as the Fed keeps interest rates at all-time lows.
Given the sheer amount of dry powder available, coupled with accommodative credit markets, private-equity is keen to conduct a surfeit of acquisitions, and isn’t shy about injecting large sums of equity into prospective investments.
Medline, for example, is expected to raise roughly $17 billion from the debt markets, while the private investors are providing a similar amount in equity.
“Big leveraged buyouts are back in vogue,” said Christopher Zook, chairman and CIO of alternative investment manager CAZ Investments. “Whether it’s KKR or Blackstone, they have large capital to put to work. So they’ve got to do a ton of deals.”
Disclaimer: KKR holds a majority stake in Insider’s parent company, Axel Springer.
It’s been quite the month for Blackstone.
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Hello and welcome to Insider Investing. I'm Joe Ciolli, and I'm here to guide you through the current market and investing landscape. Here…
Hello and welcome to Insider Investing. I’m Joe Ciolli, and I’m here to guide you through the current market and investing landscape. Here’s what’s on the docket:
- The Federal Reserve left interest rates steady this past week while setting the stage for two hikes by year-end 2023. Insider spoke with Wall Street and crypto investors to gauge how to position for the hawkish shift.
- We chatted with Hennessy Funds’ Dave Ellison, who’s in the 99th percentile compared to peers over the past year. He told us why he expects financials to stay on a tear – and shared 5 specific stocks to buy now for upside.
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The Federal Reserve left interest rates steady this past week while setting the stage for two hikes by year-end 2023. Traders, who took a wait-and-see approach before the Fed meeting, quickly sprung into action. Insider spoke with Wall Street and crypto investors to gauge how to position for the hawkish shift.
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Financial-sector stocks have outperformed the rest of the market over the last several months. Hennessy Funds’ Dave Ellison – who’s in the 99th percentile compared to peers over the past year – told Insider he expects their strong performance to continue. He shared 5 financial stocks to buy now in order to take advantage of the remaining upside.
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Short interest in SPACs stood at $3.2 billion in mid-June, up from $2.7 billion. The uptick in SPAC shorts comes as the market works to recover from a weeks-long slowdown, and one ETF manager expects recently “de-SPACed” companies to see short activity surge soon. Exclusive data shows the 20 most-shorted blank-check companies right now.
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- Goldman Sachs says buy these 37 stocks that will offer strong returns with minimal risk through year-end as growth names regain leadership
- Jefferies shares its 24 stock picks to buy for the best performance during the rest of 2021, taken from a list that’s trouncing the market so far this year
- Bank of America flags 26 stocks to buy that are also hugely popular among giant Wall Street investors
- Credit Suisse says to buy these 18 tech stocks now while they’re cheap and ahead of their years of powerful profit growth
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- Goldman Sachs says buy these 21 energy stocks with unique catalysts that will propel them higher through year-end as the sector outshines the broader market
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Artificial Organs Market | $ 10.90 billion growth expected during5 | Technavio
NEW YORK, June 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The artificial organs market is expected to grow by USD 10.90 billion during 2021-2025, according to Techn…
NEW YORK, June 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The artificial organs market is expected to grow by USD 10.90 billion during 2021-2025, according to Technavio. The report offers a detailed analysis of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the artificial organs market in optimistic, probable, and pessimistic forecast scenarios.
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Abbott Laboratories offers ASSURITY MRI PACEMAKER. Its size and shape allow surgeons to make small incisions during the implantation procedure. This pacemaker requires a small pocket under the skin of the chest during implantation.
Asahi Kasei Corp.
Asahi Kasei Corp. offers REXEED. It is a hemodialyzer for effective removal of toxins and low molecular weight proteins.
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