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Alien Labs

Alien Labs, Inc. was a San Francisco software startup founded by Cristian Strat, Mircea Pasoi and Liana Dumitru, and a seed-stage portfolio company of Bloomberg Beta. Under the Alien Labs banner the team shipped Summify, a social news digest acquired by Twitter in January 2012, and later Memo — "the wiki that's always up-to-date" — a Slack-native team knowledge base that let 8,000+ teams star a Slack message to save it as a searchable note, edit rich-text and code-block documents in context, and retrieve them with a /memo-find slash command. Memo stopped accepting new signups on January 16, 2018 and shut down on March 16, 2018; most of the engineering team joined Coinbase. The company operates no live developer portal, documentation, or public API today, and this profile is retained as a historical network record rather than an active API provider.

Alien Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Slack Apps, Knowledge Management, and Team Collaboration.

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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CompanyDefunctSlack AppsKnowledge ManagementTeam CollaborationNote TakingSearchStartups

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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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aid: alien-labs
name: Alien Labs
description: Alien Labs, Inc. was a San Francisco software startup founded by Cristian Strat, Mircea Pasoi and Liana Dumitru,
  and a seed-stage portfolio company of Bloomberg Beta. Under the Alien Labs banner the team shipped Summify, a social news
  digest acquired by Twitter in January 2012, and later Memo — "the wiki that's always up-to-date" — a Slack-native team knowledge
  base that let 8,000+ teams star a Slack message to save it as a searchable note, edit rich-text and code-block documents
  in context, and retrieve them with a /memo-find slash command. Memo stopped accepting new signups on January 16, 2018 and
  shut down on March 16, 2018; most of the engineering team joined Coinbase. The company operates no live developer portal,
  documentation, or public API today, and this profile is retained as a historical network record rather than an active API
  provider.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233019?v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alien-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bloomberg-beta
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Memo shut down 2018-03-16; engineering team acquired by Coinbase. No live API surface.
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Slack Apps
- Knowledge Management
- Team Collaboration
- Note Taking
- Search
- Startups
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Slack Apps
- Knowledge Management
- Team Collaboration
- Note Taking
- Search
- Startups
- Knowledge-Management
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/alien-labs
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alien-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alien-labs-llms.txt
- type: CrunchBase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alien-labs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alien-labs
- type: Archive
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20180401/https://memo.ai/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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