# About Unkey

Founded in 2023 by James Perkins and Andreas Thomas, Unkey is building a fast, scalable, and straightforward API management platform.

Source: https://unkey.com/about

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## Our values

- **Quality** — We handle the complexity, so your experience stays simple.
- **Open company** — We believe transparency leads to better decisions.
- **Ownership** — We trust our team to build, ship, and own their work.
- **Sustainability** — We protect work-life balance so our team delivers great value.
- **Security first** — We take security seriously and won't compromise to move faster.
- **Customer obsessed** — Real user feedback drives what we build and how fast we ship.

## The team

We love meeting up for offsites sometimes.

### What's your goal with Unkey?

Our goal with Unkey is build an open source API management platform that doesn't require the burden or cost of traditional API management platforms like Kong or Azure APM. We want to embrace what developers know today, a global REST API that allows you to deploy and protect your API on the edge in under 5 minutes.

### What are you most proud of at Unkey?

We are extremely happy with the culture we have built at Unkey, our team is small but powerful. Everyone in our team has input on the next feature or idea we have for Unkey, allowing us to build the best API management platform.

### What's been the biggest challenge?

The hardest part is prioritization. With a small team, we can't build everything at once, so we're careful to ship only what truly helps users.

## Founders

- **James Perkins** — Founder and CEO
- **Andreas Thomas** — Founder and CTO

## Investors

Unkey is supported by leading investors and founders who've built and scaled some of today's most trusted developer platforms.

- **Andy McLoughlin** — Managing Partner, Uncork Capital
- **Timothy Chen** — GP, Essence VC
- **Liu Jiang** — GP, Sunflower Capital
- **Allison Pickens** — GP, The New Normal Fund
- **Andrew Miklas** — Former CTO, PageDuty
- **Tom Preston-Werner** — Former CEO, GitHub
- **Theo Browne** — CEO, Ping Labs
- **Paul Copplestone** — CEO, Supabase
- **Ant Wilson** — CTO, Supabase
- **Rory Wilding** — Head of Growth, Supabase