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About Us

We are redefining how APIs are developed from design to production.

Our Company

Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. These products, Blackbird API Development Platform, Edge Stack API Gateway, and Telepresence, 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 Matrix Partners. Our main goals focus on the following:


- 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 to meet devs where they’re at.


- Fixing Friction to Increase Innovation & Reduce Risk: Inconsistent, unknown, or unfollowed 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, not to mention cost-savings. But even the best guidelines are easily ignored. By empowering developers with the tools they want AND removing the obstacles they don’t, we seek to reduce the margin for error.

Friction-free API Development Accelerated

Used by 10,000+ Organizations

Ambassador solutions are trusted by organizations of all sizes.

More than 10,000 Slack Members

Our Slack channel serves as a thriving hub for collaboration, sharing, and support.

More than 9,400 Slack members

Our Slack channel serves as a thriving hub for collaboration, sharing, and support.

Our Milestones

2014

OSS Launch

Open-source projects released: Emissary-Ingress & Telepresence

2019

Series A & Company Growth

$18M funding from Insight Partners & 3x revenue growth

2021

Series B

$20M Series B funding from Insight Partners secured

2023

Company Founded

Ambassador Labs formed (formerly known as Datawire)

2017

Commercial Launch & Seed

Commercial offerings launched & $4M seed funding secured

2020

Emissary-Ingress & DCP

Emissary-ingress becomes CNCF incubating project & launch of Developer Control Plane

2022

Strategic Partnership & New Direction

Docker partnership for Telepresence formed & new strategic vision begins

Our Leadership Team

Steve Rodda

Chief Executive Office

Jason Miller

Chief Operating Officer

Ryan Thompson

VP of Customer Success & Partnerships

Ann Boyd

VP of Marketing

Kenn Hussey

VP of Engineering

Adam Biehler

VP of Global Sales

Lori Marshall

VP of Product Management

Awards and Recognition

API Development

2024 Digital Innovator

Intellyx Names Ambassador a 2024 Digital Innovator for API Platform

Edge Stack API Gateway

2023 Best Microservices API

API World 2023, the longest-running API & microservices event, recently announced the winners of the API Awards, the definitive awards for the API & microservices industry.