Hookdeck raises $2.65 million CAD to connect the information that “rules the web”
Summary
Webhooks are used to communicate the occurrence of an event in one system to another system, and they often share data about the event.Webhooks are most common in SaaS platforms like GitHub, Shopify, Stripe, Twilio, and Slack because they support different types of events based on the activities that happen within them.Webhooks allow for multiple apps to automatically communicate with each other. Zapier, a California-based automation tech startup, explained that webhooks work similarly with SMS notifications. Any new purchases or urgent messages will be automatically sent to their phone using the number that they provided to the bank.Information rules the web, and getting information in real-time makes online services highly efficient and responsive to customer needs, Hookdeck said, noting that webhooks offer a simple way for online platforms to share information in real-time.Alexandre Bouchard and Eric Bang-Tri Tran worked on Hookdeck as a basement project in January 2020 and decided to go full-time that same year, incorporating in January 2021.Soon after launching and having the chance to talk with many tech managers, we realized that the problems we were solving go hand in hand with the difficulty of scaling a queuing infrastructure to handle growing and variable webhook usage, Hookdecks founders said in a statement to BetaKit. Former Olympic rowers and identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (popular for suing Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg) co-founded Gemini in 2014. Gemini is a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services, and considered by some to be one of the most secure crypto exchanges.Hookdeck said it is working to find more data points and insights for its customers, which it claimed would make for more effective monitoring and error recovery.These updates will allow us to support every type of developer and team starting a project, the startup said.