Tina Huang, a former engineer at Apple, Google, and Twitter, explains why she started API management startup Transposit. It just raised $12.2 million.
, in a way I would not have expected, has a massive impact on how I think about products," Huang said."They would do user research to figure out the right interface in order to make it easy and delightful for developers to build things.", she spent nine months studying cultural anthropology. At the time, she started to feel that it was isolating to write code all day, and so she wanted a change in pace.
Huang met Levanthal, who is known for creating the troubleshooting tool DTrace, during their times as entrepreneurs-in residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. They started working together in 2016, and came up with Transposit as the way they wanted toInvestors are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that startups like PagerDuty, GitLab, and CloudBees can change the way software gets made
And so, Transposit focused on more technical investor firms. For example, Sam Pullara at Sutter Hill Ventures, one of Transposit's investors and board members, had previously worked with Huang at Twitter as an engineer. Pullara immediately recognized the potential for helping developers manage those cumbersome APIs.
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