Unkey Raises $4.5M to Ship APIs Not Infrastructure

April 23, 2026

Software is changing faster than ever, but one fact remains true: APIs are, maybe more than ever, essential to interoperability and ensuring the ‘whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ when uniting disparate systems. Enter Unkey, which just announced a $4.5m seed round.

From the moment we met the Unkey team (via their lead seed investor Uncork) we knew they were people we wanted to support as well. Unkey is built BY developers FOR developers - open source (hey, view on GitHub). What they’re doing next with Deploy, is making it powerfully simple to run your API.

Excited that they're sharing news of the fundraise and even more excited for everything to come!!!