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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- Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
- MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
- Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
- Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
- Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
- Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
- Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
- Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
- Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Source (apis.yml)
aid: amiato
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: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amiato.png
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.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amiato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Y Combinator
- Ignition Partners
- Data Collective
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-acquired-no-api-surface
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: '0.23'
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
pass: local-v1
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.
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