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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0.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyEducationEdTechPersonalized LearningK-12Learning ManagementVenture BackedDefunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 0.9/100 · 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 0.0 / 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
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: altschool
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/altschool.png
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.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/altschool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2013'
x-founder: Max Ventilla
x-successor: Altitude Learning
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- Personalized Learning
- K-12
- Learning Management
- Venture Backed
- Defunct
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