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In the last two months, that has meant looking at how applications talk to each other — and how to protect the data and services that flow through them between application programming interfaces, or APIs as they are more commonly called. “We get multiple emails a week from investors sniffing around,” said [Larry Link](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/larry-link), CEO of Sunnyvale, California-based API security provider [Cequence Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cequence-security). “We see interest from PE, from growth venture — they all want to play in this space.” That is not the only round API security providers saw in the last several weeks. Last month, London-based [42Crunch](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/42crunch) raised a $17 million Series A. Later that month, Palo Alto, California-based [Salt Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saltsecurity) closed a [$70 million Series C](https://news.crunchbase.com/news/salt-security-raises-third-round-in-less-than-a-year-closes-70m-series-c/) — raising the total amount of funding the company has seen in the last year to $120 million. Earlier this month, Colorado-based [ThreatX](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threat-x) announced it had closed a $10 million round. “Right now there is a lot of money flying around out there,” said [Greg Dracon](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/greg-dracon), a partner at [.406 Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/406-ventures), which invested in ThreatX and described the round as competitive from the investor’s side. 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