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 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDefunctSlack AppsKnowledge ManagementTeam CollaborationNote TakingSearchStartups

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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Agent Surfaces 1

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Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

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Company 2

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CrunchBase

CrunchBase

LinkedIn

Other 1

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Archive

Source (apis.yml)

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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.
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