Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL, commonly called Apollo, is a software company focused on GraphQL infrastructure and developer tooling. Founded in 2016 by Matt DeBergalis and Geoff Schmidt, the company developed a suite for teams building APIs and client applications with GraphQL. Its offerings address several parts of that work: creating GraphQL services, composing data from multiple services, routing requests, and helping client applications query and manage data. The Apollo product family includes Apollo Client, Apollo Server, Apollo Router, and Apollo Federation. Apollo Client is a client-side library for working with GraphQL APIs in applications. Apollo Server helps developers expose data through GraphQL. Federation provides conventions and tools for composing multiple GraphQL services into a unified graph, while Apollo Router handles requests across that graph. The company also offers GraphOS, a platform for developing, managing, and operating a graph, including schema and service workflows. Apollo's principal audience is software-development organizations, particularly teams working with distributed services and multiple data sources. Its tools are used across application development and API infrastructure rather than being aimed at a single consumer category. The company combines open-source software with commercial platform capabilities. It operates in the global developer-tools market; its products are available to developers and organizations internationally. Apollo Graph Inc. is privately held. The company is based in San Francisco, California. Apollo's positioning centers on making GraphQL practical for production systems and enabling teams to connect distributed services through a shared graph. Its product approach spans developer libraries and server components as well as tools for operating and governing graph infrastructure. This dossier concerns the commercial software company and its products, not other uses of the Apollo name.

Apollo GraphQL emerged as a commercial effort to make GraphQL easier to adopt and operate in software applications. Founded in 2016 by Matt DeBergalis and Geoff Schmidt, the company built on the growing use of GraphQL as an API query language and on the need for practical client and server tooling. Its early product direction brought together libraries and tools intended to help application developers work with GraphQL services. Apollo Client became a central part of the product family, giving application teams a way to query GraphQL APIs and manage server data within client applications. Apollo Server provided a means of exposing application data through GraphQL. Together, these products served developers implementing GraphQL across both application and service layers. As organizations adopted distributed architectures, Apollo expanded its focus beyond individual GraphQL endpoints. Apollo Federation introduced an approach for composing multiple independently developed GraphQL services into a unified graph. This supported teams that wanted to organize API ownership among services while presenting a connected interface to consuming applications. Apollo Router became part of the infrastructure for routing operations through federated graphs. The company developed GraphOS as a platform for working with graphs across their lifecycle, including development, composition, management, and operations. The broader portfolio reflects Apollo's positioning as more than a single GraphQL library: it offers open-source developer components alongside commercial capabilities for organizations operating GraphQL at scale. Its products are used by development teams internationally, especially those coordinating APIs across multiple services and teams. Apollo Graph Inc. remains a privately held software company headquartered in San Francisco. Its history as a brand is closely associated with the adoption of GraphQL tooling, the evolution of federated graphs, and the effort to provide a cohesive platform for building and running GraphQL APIs. The company continues to present its offerings under the Apollo and GraphOS names.

• 2016

  Apollo Graph Inc. founded

• Apollo Federation introduced

• GraphOS platform developed

A GraphQL-focused developer-tools and infrastructure provider, combining open-source components with a commercial platform for building and operating connected graphs across services.

• Apollo Client

  A client-side library for building applications that use GraphQL APIs.

• Apollo Server

  Server software for exposing data and services through GraphQL.

• Apollo Federation

  Tools and conventions for composing multiple GraphQL services into a unified graph.

• Apollo Router

  A router for handling operations across federated GraphQL graphs.

• GraphOS

  A platform for developing, managing, and operating GraphQL graphs.

• Broadened its product focus from GraphQL libraries to graph infrastructureOther

1. 1Apollo GraphQL official websiteapollographql.com
2. 2Apollo GraphQLen.wikipedia.org
3. 3Apollo GraphQL Introduces GraphOS Agent Services, Giving AI Agents Governed Access to Enterprise APIs and Systemsprnewswire.com