Aepona

Aepona was a telecommunications software company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with additional offices in Dublin, the United States, and Sri Lanka. Its Network-as-a-Service platform let mobile network operators and cloud service providers expose carrier network capabilities — messaging, voice, location, identity, and carrier billing — to third-party developers through common-language REST APIs, and merchandize them through multi-sided business models. Backed by Amadeus Capital Partners and Sapphire Ventures, Aepona was acquired by Intel in April 2013 for approximately $124 million and folded into Intel's software and services group alongside the Mashery API-management acquisition. The company is no longer operating independently and its developer surface is defunct; this profile is retained as a historical record within the API Evangelist network.

Aepona is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Network as a Service, and API Monetization.

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1.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyInfrastructureTelecommunicationsNetwork as a ServiceAPI MonetizationMobileAcquired

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 1.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aepona Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: aepona
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aepona.png
name: Aepona
description: Aepona was a telecommunications software company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
  with additional offices in Dublin, the United States, and Sri Lanka. Its Network-as-a-Service platform let mobile network
  operators and cloud service providers expose carrier network capabilities — messaging, voice, location, identity, and carrier
  billing — to third-party developers through common-language REST APIs, and merchandize them through multi-sided business
  models. Backed by Amadeus Capital Partners and Sapphire Ventures, Aepona was acquired by Intel in April 2013 for approximately
  $124 million and folded into Intel's software and services group alongside the Mashery API-management acquisition. The company
  is no longer operating independently and its developer surface is defunct; this profile is retained as a historical record
  within the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aepona/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- sapphire-ventures
- amadeus-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct-acquired
x-acquired-by: intel
x-acquired-date: '2013-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications
- Network as a Service
- API Monetization
- Mobile
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications
- APIs
- Network as a Service
- API Monetization
- Mobile
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aepona-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aepona.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence