Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino (born September 12, 1988) is a Serbian-Italian inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Mashape, the marketplace for Cloud APIs.

Education
Palladino was born in Belgrade from a Serbian mother and an Italian father, and lived in Milan. After completing the high school courses, he enrolled in Finance at the University of Milan, dropping out after one year.

Career
Palladino started coding at the age of 13, since then he has joined several open source projects, contributing to the Java documentation and deepening his passion in microprocessor and circuits development. He’s been co-founder at MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small piece of personal data (like telephone numbers and credit card numbers). Then he co-founded Mashape, an API marketplace, and he moved to San Francisco, USA. The company got an angel round from early YouTube employees in 2010, and a 1.5MM seed round from top Silicon Valley investors, totaling 1.6MM in funding from prominent institutional investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Index Ventures and individuals including Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.