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About Us

We're accelerating API development with an all-in-one platform for designing, testing, and collaborating seamlessly across teams.

Our company

Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. These products, Blackbird API Development Platform and Edge Stack API Gateway, accelerate development, expedite testing, and optimize the delivery of API resources. Founded in 2014, Ambassador is a remote company backed by top investors, including Insight Partners and Four Rivers Group.

Protecting a world-class developer experience
Whether the job is to manage an influx of gateway traffic, test code in a complex microservices environment, or create a collection of APIs for a new service, our tools are designed to simplify and streamline development. We let developers work where and how they want to work and eliminate the pain of collaboration, reviews, and testing.
Maximizing development efficiency
As development demands accelerate, new tools are needed to keep up with the increasing complexity of today’s computing environments. Teams are expected to deliver faster and more frequent releases and manage increasing traffic ‌all while improving quality and reducing risk. We develop our products to cut through typical friction points–easing collaboration and enabling more self-serve experiences.
Fix friction to reduce risk
Inconsisten or unknown processes multiply risk. Nowhere is this more true than in software development, which meanwhile fuels growth and innovation. Companies cannot afford to miss steps that help ensure compliance and consistency. But even the best guidelines are easily ignored. By empowering developers with the tools they want AND removing the obstacles they don’t, we reduce the margin for error.

Friction-free API development accelerated.

Used by 10,000+ organizations.
Ambassador solutions are trusted by organizations of all sizes.
Gartner honorable mention
Ambassador Blackbird received an honorable mention in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management Tools in 2024.
More than 9,400 Slack members.
Our Slack channel serves as a thriving hub for collaboration, sharing, and support.

Our milestones

2024
Blackbird API Development Platform launches
Named a 2024 Digital Innovator by Intellyx.
2023
Strategic partnership and new direction
Docker partnership for Telepresence formed and new strategic vision begins.
2022
Series B
$20M Series B funding from Insight Partners secured.
2021
Emissary-Ingress and DCP
Emissary-ingress becomes CNCF incubating project and the launch of Developer Control Plane.
2020
Series A and company growth
$18M funding from Insight Partners and 3x revenue growth.
2019
Commercial launch and seed
Commercial offerings launched &$4M seed funding secured
2017
OSS launch
Open-source projects released: Emissary-Ingress and Telepresence
2014
Company founded
Ambassador formed (formerly known as Datawire)

Our leadership team

Steve Rodda
Chief Executive Officer
Jason Miller
Chief Operating Officer
Ann Boyd
VP of Marketing
Matt Voget
VP of Engineering
Adam Biehler
VP of Global Sales
Lori Marshall
VP of Product Management

Awards and recognition