AgLocal

AgLocal was a venture-backed food-technology startup (founded 2011 by Mike Hsieh and Naithan Jones, Kansas City / San Francisco) that built an online marketplace connecting small family ranchers and sustainable meat producers directly with buyers. It launched in 2013 as a ranch-to-restaurant marketplace serving chefs, then pivoted in 2014 to a consumer-facing monthly meat subscription service. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Chicago Ventures and others across roughly $3.8M in funding, the company shut down in 2015, stating it could not reach a self-sustaining business model. It is added to the API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead; the company is now defunct and its domain (aglocal.com) is parked/for sale, so no live developer portal, API, or specifications exist to enrich.

AgLocal is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Agriculture, Food, Marketplace, and Meat.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAgricultureFoodMarketplaceMeatSubscriptionE-CommerceSustainabilityDefuncta16z Portfolio

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: aglocal
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/aglocal.png
name: AgLocal
description: AgLocal was a venture-backed food-technology startup (founded 2011 by Mike Hsieh and Naithan Jones, Kansas City
  / San Francisco) that built an online marketplace connecting small family ranchers and sustainable meat producers directly
  with buyers. It launched in 2013 as a ranch-to-restaurant marketplace serving chefs, then pivoted in 2014 to a consumer-facing
  monthly meat subscription service. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Chicago Ventures and others across roughly $3.8M
  in funding, the company shut down in 2015, stating it could not reach a self-sustaining business model. It is added to the
  API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead; the company is now defunct and its domain (aglocal.com) is parked/for
  sale, so no live developer portal, API, or specifications exist to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aglocal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: a16z-portfolio
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Company ceased operations in 2015; aglocal.com now resolves to a HugeDomains parked/for-sale page (verified
  2026-07-17). No API, developer portal, OpenAPI, SDKs, or other developer artifacts exist.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Food
- Marketplace
- Meat
- Subscription
- E-Commerce
- Sustainability
- Defunct
- a16z Portfolio
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence