Amiato

Amiato was a Palo Alto, California big-data startup founded in 2011 by Nathan Binkert and Mehul A. Shah, originally incubated at Y Combinator in 2012 under the name Nou Data. Amiato built a real-time analytics pipeline around its Schema-lift technology, which extracted records from NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Couchbase, automatically inferred and transformed them into a relational schema, and loaded them continuously into Amazon Redshift so that unstructured operational data could be queried by conventional business-intelligence tools. The company raised roughly $2M from investors including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Data Collective (DCVC) and angel Bobby Yazdani. Amazon Web Services quietly acquired Amiato in May 2014 (reported publicly in April 2015) in what was widely characterized as a talent acquisition; most of the team joined Amazon's database and Redshift product groups and Amiato ceased independent operations. The company is defunct: the amiato.com domain no longer resolves and there is no surviving public API, developer portal, documentation, or SDK surface to enrich.

Amiato is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Big Data, Data Integration, ETL, and Business Intelligence.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyBig DataData IntegrationETLBusiness IntelligenceNoSQLData WarehouseAnalyticsDefunctAcquired

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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: amiato
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  pricing: unknown
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Amiato
description: 'Amiato was a Palo Alto, California big-data startup founded in 2011 by Nathan Binkert and Mehul A. Shah, originally
  incubated at Y Combinator in 2012 under the name Nou Data. Amiato built a real-time analytics pipeline around its Schema-lift
  technology, which extracted records from NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Couchbase, automatically inferred and transformed
  them into a relational schema, and loaded them continuously into Amazon Redshift so that unstructured operational data could
  be queried by conventional business-intelligence tools. The company raised roughly $2M from investors including Y Combinator,
  Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Data Collective (DCVC) and angel Bobby Yazdani. Amazon Web Services quietly acquired
  Amiato in May 2014 (reported publicly in April 2015) in what was widely characterized as a talent acquisition; most of the
  team joined Amazon''s database and Redshift product groups and Amiato ceased independent operations. The company is defunct:
  the amiato.com domain no longer resolves and there is no surviving public API, developer portal, documentation, or SDK surface
  to enrich.'
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- Y Combinator
- Ignition Partners
- Data Collective
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x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: Amazon Web Services
x-acquired-date: 2014-05
x-former-name: Nou Data
x-founded: '2011'
x-headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Big Data
- Data Integration
- ETL
- Business Intelligence
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Analytics
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
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  notes: Searched and probed; company is defunct (acquired by AWS May 2014), amiato.com does not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN), no
    API surface exists. Identity fields enriched from verified public sources; no artifacts fabricated.