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Vessel

YC W22

San Francisco, US · Founded 2022 · 5 employees · Inactive · 2 known investors

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Vessel is a developer-first platform that enables companies to integrate with customer-facing applications through a unified API, webhooks, and managed data pipelines. It handles authentication, permission management, rate limiting, and data synchronization across multiple third-party apps.

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W22)

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Avery YipinFounder

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Zachary Kirbyin𝕏Founder

Investors · 2

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Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

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BenchmarkreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $30M

Competitors · 9

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Vessel13 shared keywords

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Unified API12 shared keywordsUnified.to provides a real-time unified API platform that enables SaaS companies to integrate with customer data sources quickly and without extensive engineering overhead. The platform allows software teams to launch integrations in days rather than months or years.

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V Vessel12 shared keywords

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Storwize12 shared keywords

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