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Cloud Elements

3858 Walnut St. Suite 235, Denver, Colorado, 80205, United States

Overview

Cloud Elements provides an API integration platform for software providers, using a one-to-many “virtualized” integration approach that enables developers to unify thousands of APIs and build common data models for core business functions. Its embedded integration model targets software providers, systems integrators, and enterprise customers with 170+ pre-built integrations and normalized capabilities for authentication, discovery, search, workflows, error handling, and API maintenance. The platform aims to reduce the cost and complexity of application and data integration while accelerating product development. Customers include large software platform companies (SAP, IBM), independent software vendors (Axway, DoubleDutch, FinancialForce, Microstrategy, Sage), fintechs (Danske Bank, FIS, PaySimple, Western Union) and digital units of large enterprises (Dun & Bradstreet, Xerox). Founded in 2012 and based in Denver, Colorado, Cloud Elements plans to use new funding to add capabilities to its platform and to expand sales, marketing and customer success in the U.S. and Europe. Financially, the company has raised a total of $46.2m to date. Cloud Elements is a Denver, CO–based API integration platform serving ISVs and digital enterprises. Its product, called Elements, are feature-rich app connectors that integrate a product into the ecosystem of applications customers and partners use daily. The company serves customers worldwide and is led by co-founder and CEO Mark Geene. Cloud Elements raised a new funding round of undisclosed amount from strategic and existing backers. The company intends to use the funds to bring new integrated digital payment experiences to market. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Cloud Elements offers API integration tools that let application developers embed connector hubs (called "elements") directly inside their apps to connect disparate systems. The product provides a single administrative interface for developers to build and manage connectors across similar product sets, such as financial systems. The company was launched in Denver in 2012 and self-funded until seeking its first external round in 2014. It has 55 employees and is growing at a reported 40% quarter over quarter. Cloud Elements plans to use new funding to expand customer success, sales and marketing, increase the number of systems it can connect to, and enable third parties to build elements in an open marketplace. Cloud Elements is a Denver, CO-based cloud API integration and aggregation service that integrates, monitors and maintains cloud services across categories such as Documents, CRM and Finance. The company offers a catalog of SaaS API connectors and an API management platform to simplify connecting multiple cloud services. Founded in late 2012 and led by CEO Mark Geene, Cloud Elements had 22 employees at the time of the article. It raised $3.1M in a Series A financing to further develop its connector catalog and API management capabilities. The company plans to invest the proceeds in developer outreach and to accelerate sales and marketing to expand adoption.

Total raised
$41M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Feb 2019

Industries

  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Data Services
  • Data Integration
  • Developer APIs
  • Enterprise Applications
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Feb 2019

    $25M

  2. Series B

    Jan 2017

    $13M

  3. Series A

    Jun 2014

    $3M

Team

  • Bobby Edmundowicz

    Chief Revenue Officer

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  • Ian Jackson ACMA CGMA

    Financial Controller

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  • Patrick Dechant

    Director of Engineering

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  • Crystal Trujillo-Sauter

    Director of Sales Operations

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