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Capsule Social was a decentralized-innovation company founded in early 2021 by cryptography researcher Nadim Kobeissi to build tools for a web3 future. Its flagship product, Blogchain, was a decentralized publishing and social platform — a Substack-like blogging experience with Twitter-like social elements — built on IPFS for serverless content…
SOASTA was a web and mobile performance-testing company known for CloudTest (cloud-based load and performance testing) and mPulse (real user monitoring / RUM). It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment.
Instart Logic was a web application performance and security company founded in 2010 (originally as Zettata) and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It pioneered an endpoint-integrated cloud delivery architecture that paired a cloud service with a client-side JavaScript engine (the Nanovisor) running in the browser to accelerate web and mobile…
Macrometa is a global data network and edge computing platform. Its Global Data Network (GDN) provides a geo-distributed, serverless NoSQL database, pub/sub streams, complex event processing, and edge functions through a unified REST API plus first-party Python (pyC8) and JavaScript (jsC8) SDKs.
Tinstop Website Intelligence API — A keyless, machine-payable Website Intelligence API for domain security and performance audits, built for AI agents. Access is gated per-request via the x402 payment protocol using USDC on Base — no accounts or API keys.
Torbit was a web-performance-optimization startup (real-user monitoring and automated front-end optimization) backed by 500 Startups, acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013. The product has long been discontinued; the enrichment pass found no live developer portal, documentation, or API surface.
Strattic was a static and headless WordPress hosting platform that pre-rendered WordPress sites into static assets for improved security, performance, and scalability, while preserving the familiar WordPress admin experience via SFTP and WP-CLI developer access.
OpenCurriculum is a nonprofit education-technology organization (a Y Combinator alum) that builds curriculum-planning software for K-12 schools. Its web application helps teachers and administrators create and organize lesson plans, unit plans, and courses; draw on a curated library of high-quality, ready-to-go teaching ideas, resources, and…
ChangEducation is an integrated teaching-service provider of artificial-intelligence and STEAM curriculum systems, surfaced as a portfolio company of Qiming Venture Partners and added to the API Evangelist network.
Curio (curio.io), operated by Curio Labs, was a London-based audio-journalism subscription app founded in 2016 by Govind Balakrishnan and Srikant Chakravarti. It turned articles from premium publishers into professionally narrated audio and later added AI-generated personalized episodes.
Trint is an AI-powered audio and video transcription platform built for media, journalism, and enterprise content teams. It transcribes speech to text in dozens of languages, offers a collaborative editor, translation, and story-building tools, and exposes a documented REST API at dev.trint.com for uploading and transcribing media, listing and…
Happs was a live-streaming platform for creators and citizen journalists that let broadcasters produce real-time news and multicast a single live stream simultaneously to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, Twitch and other destinations, with built-in studio tools and viewer monetization through tips and monthly sponsorships.
Ground News is a news aggregation platform, built by Snapwise Inc. and backed by Techstars, that helps readers see every side of every story. It gathers coverage of each news event from across the political spectrum and pairs every story with media bias ratings, factuality assessments, and source-ownership transparency.
Recount Media operates The Recount, a political news and media outlet that distributes government and political coverage across social platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and X) plus the "Who Broke It" newsletter on Substack, under the tagline "More signal, less noise, and zero spin." It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Union…
Massive Science is a science communication platform and media company that publishes stories, explainers, lab notes, and reports about current research, written and edited by working scientists.
Old Town Media is a New York City media consulting and investment firm founded in 2017 by journalists Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson together with media operations executive Katherine Lehr.
The Athletic is a subscription-based digital sports media company founded in 2016 by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, offering in-depth, ad-light coverage of national and local professional and college sports through a large staff of beat writers and columnists.
The Atavist is a pioneering digital longform-storytelling brand founded in 2009 by Evan Ratliff, Jefferson Rabb, and Nicholas Thompson. It comprises The Atavist Magazine, which publishes one immersive work of narrative nonfiction each month and has earned National Magazine Award and Emmy recognition, and the Atavist multimedia publishing platform…
Egab is a journalism platform founded in late 2020 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, that connects local journalists across the Global South — the Middle East, Africa, and beyond (60+ countries) — with international media outlets.