Mashery Incorporated, headquartered in San Francisco, California started its operation in 2006. Mashery provides web services and on-demand application programming interface (API). It was founded by Michales, Scott Rafer, Clay Loveless and Kirsten Spoljaric. Mashery enables software-driven companies to unlock and accelerate their web services channels by supplying fully hosted solutions and providing support from the time of inception up to performance optimization. The company’s solutions are MasheryPro and MasheryLite. They offer security and access control; metering, metrics, and management; performance and scalability. Mashery enables customers to collaborate with partners via a fully branded API portal that includes blogging tools, wiki, content management tools, and customizable content areas. The features of its products include API, reporting, community tools and support infrastructure. The products can support online documentation and forums, email or ticket support, customer API monitoring, failover and service level agreements. Mashery offers business services to various industrial sectors, such as commerce, media and entertainment, and other businesses. The services include Cleartrip, Compete, Daylife, Earthmine, Freewebs, GoGrid, LinkedIn, Lonely Planet, Lookery, Trulia and ZoomInfo. Mashery is backed by First Round Capital, Formative Ventures, The Accelerator Group and other prominent investors. Mashery Inc. can be located on the web at www.mashery.com.