Ambassador Wins Hackernoon’s 2024 Startup of the Year Denver Award
DENVER, CO (April 28, 2025) – Ambassador, the API innovation company, was pleased to be recognized by Hackernoon’s 2024 Startups of the Year for Denver, Colorado.
With over 30,500 startups participating and 560 cities represented, Ambassador received the most votes for the Denver, Colorado region, and is one of 164 startups that won a regional award from the 949,900 votes gathered.
“We’re honored to receive this recognition—it’s especially meaningful coming from the developer community itself,” says Steve Rodda, CEO of Ambassador. “We’re especially excited about the momentum behind our latest product, Blackbird, and its role in shaping the future of APIs in this new era of AI.”
Ambassador has previously received recognition, including: a Gartner API Management 2024 Honorable Mention, Best in Coding and Design Tools at API World 2024, 2024 Intellyx Digital Innovator, and Best Microservice API for Edge Stack API Gateway in 2023.
Startups of the Year 2024 is HackerNoon’s flagship community-driven event celebrating startups, technology, and the spirit of innovation. Currently in its third iteration, the prestigious Internet award recognizes and celebrates tech startups of all shapes and sizes.
This year, over 150,000 entities across 4,200+ cities, six continents, and 100+ industries participated in a bid to be crowned the best startup of the year. Millions of votes have been cast over the past few years, and many stories have been written about these daring and rising startups. This current award season ran from September 30, 2024, through April 2025.
ABOUT HACKERNOON
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ABOUT AMBASSADOR
Ambassador makes tools that fuel growth by optimizing software development with APIs in today’s complex modern infrastructures. The company’s flagship product, Blackbird API Development Platform, builds on the success of previous innovations Edge Stack API Gateway and Telepresence, to improve the velocity, quality, and security of API development and delivery. Founded in 2014, Ambassador is a remote company backed by top investors, including Insight Partners and Four Rivers Group. Learn more at www.getambassador.io.
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