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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | |
| Founded | 2007; 18 years ago (2007) |
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| Successor | Salesforce  |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California,U.S. |
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| Products |
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| Revenue |  US$ 296.46 million(2017) |
 US$ -79.80 million(2017) | |
| US$ -79.98 million(2017) | |
| Total assets | US$ 492.60 million(2017) |
| Total equity | US$ 232.95 million(2017) |
Number of employees | 1,188(2017) |
| Parent | Salesforce |
| Website | mulesoft.com |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
MuleSoft, LLC. is asoftware company headquartered inSan Francisco, that provides integration software for connecting applications, data and devices,[2] founded in 2006. The company's Anypoint Platform of integration products is designed to integratesoftware as a service (SaaS),on-premises software,legacy systems and other platforms.[3][4]
In 2018, Mulesoft was acquired bySalesforce for $6.5 billion in a cash-and-stock deal.[5]
MuleSource, as the company was originally called, was founded by Ross Mason and Dave Rosenberg in 2006. The company was built around the successful Open Source Software (OSS) project,Mule, which Ross Mason founded in 2003. The "mule" in the name comes from the drudgery, or "donkey work," of data and application integration that the platform was created to escape.[6]The company changed its name to MuleSoft in 2009. MuleSoft originally providedmiddleware and messaging, and later expanded to provide anintegration platform as a service (iPaaS) approach for companies through its main product, Anypoint Platform.[7][8]
In April 2013, the company announced $37 million inSeries E financing in a round led byNew Enterprise Associates, with participation from new strategic investorSalesforce.com, and existing investorsHummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures,Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners,Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and Bay Partners. This brought MuleSoft's total financing, over the course of seven rounds, to $259 million.[9]
In April 2013, MuleSoft acquiredProgrammableWeb, a website used by developers to help build web, mobile and other connected applications through APIs.[10][11]
In February 2017, the company filed for anIPO,[12] and began trading on theNew York Stock Exchange on March 17, 2017.[13]
In March 2018,Salesforce.com announced it was buying MuleSoft in a deal reported to be worth $6.5 billion;[14][15] the acquisition was completed in May of that year.[16]
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform includes Anypoint Design Center, which allowsAPI developers to design and build APIs; Anypoint Exchange, a library for API providers to share APIs, templates, and assets; and Anypoint Management Center, a centralized web interface to analyze, manage, and monitor APIs and integrations.[17] MuleSoft also offers theMule runtime engine for connecting enterprise applicationson-premises and to the cloud, designed to eliminate the need for custom point-to-point integration code.[jargon][18]
As of August 2019, MuleSoft had more than 1,400 employees and more than 1,600 customers.[19]