We're empowering developers to compose the next era of data
Our mission
Data is the force behind progress. Our vision is to free developers from complex backend management, allowing them to access and use data, while our platform manages the intricacies. Led by tech visionaries, Canopy is a foundation for secure, scalable data composition. We simplify integration to revolutionize data's impact.
The quest to build a powerful platform for developers to shape data instantly
Data Standardization
APIs improve data interoperability.
Roy Fielding PhD publishes dissertation on REST APIs.
Outlawing monoliths
promotes a service-based enterprise architecture, fostering rapid solution creation.
Jeff Bezos mandates APIs and microservices at Amazon.
Ryan is a software developer at Dell, and early adopter of services, migrating monoliths to early composable systems that run $10B lines of business, and helping Dell scale from $30B to +$60B
Internet scale infra
Cloud infrastructure enables global development, saving significantly on initial procurement of physical data center products.
Amazon Web Services launches, by releasing the Simple Storage Service (S3).
Defining the Cloud future
Ryan joins Rackspace as a founding cloud computing product manager to build new cloud services including a PaaS (Platform as a Service), disrupt the managed hosting business and plan OpenStack
Bulding global Commerce Services
Ryan joins ebay to lead several products, redeveloping as a series of Commerce Services including global checkout, returns, & reverse logistics.
Building AI/ML platforms
Ryan leads the mobile & innovation teams for Staples, a $20B enterprise with one of the largest B2B eComm groups at $15B. Ryan spearheads projects to use Natural Language processing & understanding, ML models + commerce services to reinvent the B2B customer relationship at Staples.
A new AI breakthrough leads to better software
The Transformer model accelerates the shift from deterministic to probabilistic software architecture, leading to breakthroughs. OpenAI's ChatGPT launches in 2022, quickly reaching 100M users.
Google research publishes "Attention is All You Need " The academic paper that kicked off generative AI.
Founded fabric, a unicorn start-up for commerce services
Ryan founded fabric, a startup valued at $1.5B in 2022 to disrupt the commerce platform market for enterprise and mid-market, by building a suite of modular and composable products.
Morgan Dollard joins Ryan at fabric to lead product management and take the company to it's next stage of growth
Canopy is founded
Ryan and Morgan launch a new architecture approach to building backends by focusing on DATA and the need to easily combine & remix data from discreet services and datasources.
Canopy's public launch
Canopy publicly launches to great fanfare, fast traction, and happy customers.
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Backed by forward thinking investors
