# Apollo raises $22 million to simplify app development

DevFeed: [Apollo raises $22 million to simplify app development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/apollo-raises-22-million-to-simplify-app-development-23208.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/apollo-raises-22-million-to-simplify-app-development-ee30502c81b3>)

Author: Geoff Schmidt

Published: 2019-06-12T22:41:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [Modern Apps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-apps.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Boilerplate](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/boilerplate.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [apollo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo.md>), [app-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app-development.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-management.md>), [developer-community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-community.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [funding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [modern-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modern-apps.md>)

## AI overview

Apollo announces its first venture capital round, raising $22 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and other participants. The article describes Apollo's goal of simplifying application development through a data graph that connects applications and devices to cloud data, using GraphQL.

## Source excerpt

By turning code into brilliant solutions that improve people's lives, app developers have the power to positively impact the world. At Apollo, we want to help developers help the world.To do that, we're tackling the hardest problem in app development: data management. Modern apps are complicated. Any given screen might depend on a hundred different pieces of data, fetched from a dozen different sources in the cloud.