# Adku

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/adku/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Adku was a big-data e-commerce personalization startup founded around 2010 by former Googlers (CEO Ajit Varma with co-founders Carlos Whitt and Jesse Shieh), and an AngelPad alumnus. It built machine-learning technology to personalize the online shopping experience for visitors to e-commerce sites such as eBay, Amazon, and Zappos. Backed by Battery Ventures, Greylock Partners, and True Ventures (roughly $1.49M raised), Adku was acquired by Groupon in February 2012 and is no longer an operating, independent company. It has no public developer portal, API, or documentation surface; this record is retained in the API Evangelist network as a Battery Ventures portfolio lead for historical/enrichment tracking only.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, E-Commerce, Personalization, Machine-Learning, Big Data, Advertising, Acquired, Battery Ventures Portfolio

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/adku/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.