AltSchool

AltSchool was an American education-technology company founded in 2013 by former Google executive Max Ventilla to build a network of small private "lab" schools around a personalized, student-directed learning model, using those campuses to develop a K-12 software platform for assignments and progress tracking. It raised more than $170 million from investors including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Mark Zuckerberg's CZI, and Peter Thiel. In 2017-2019 the company closed or handed off its for-profit schools (to Higher Ground Education) and pivoted to selling the software as "Altitude Learning," with Ventilla stepping down as CEO. The venture is now defunct as an independent operation: the altschool.com domain no longer resolves and altitudelearning.com redirects to Guidepost Montessori. No public developer, API, or documentation surface was found; this record is retained as a historical VC-portfolio company profile.

AltSchool is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, EdTech, Personalized Learning, and K-12.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEducationEdTechPersonalized LearningK-12Learning ManagementVenture BackedDefunct

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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: altschool
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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name: AltSchool
description: 'AltSchool was an American education-technology company founded in 2013 by former Google executive Max Ventilla
  to build a network of small private "lab" schools around a personalized, student-directed learning model, using those campuses
  to develop a K-12 software platform for assignments and progress tracking. It raised more than $170 million from investors
  including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Mark Zuckerberg''s CZI, and Peter Thiel. In 2017-2019 the company closed
  or handed off its for-profit schools (to Higher Ground Education) and pivoted to selling the software as "Altitude Learning,"
  with Ventilla stepping down as CEO. The venture is now defunct as an independent operation: the altschool.com domain no
  longer resolves and altitudelearning.com redirects to Guidepost Montessori. No public developer, API, or documentation surface
  was found; this record is retained as a historical VC-portfolio company profile.'
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2013'
x-founder: Max Ventilla
x-successor: Altitude Learning
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tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- Personalized Learning
- K-12
- Learning Management
- Venture Backed
- Defunct
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
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x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence