Apropose

Apropose, Inc. was a Mountain View, California startup spun out of the Stanford University Computer Science Department in 2013 to bring data-driven software to web design. Founded by Ranjitha Kumar, Jerry Talton, Maxine Lim, and Arvind Satyanarayan, the company built tools for large-scale visual page search and web design analytics — letting teams track design trends, compare a site's design against demographics, and surface prevalent design patterns to inject concrete data into the design process. It raised a roughly $1.875M seed round in 2014 led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with angels including Pat Hanrahan and Nick McKeown. The company has since ceased operations and is permanently closed; it publishes no public API, developer portal, or documentation, and its primary domain (apropose.com) is now parked and listed for sale. This profile is retained as an a16z portfolio-lead record.

Apropose is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Web Design, Design Analytics, and Machine Learning.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDefunctWeb DesignDesign AnalyticsMachine LearningData VisualizationStanford Spinouta16z Portfolio

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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: apropose
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/apropose.png
name: Apropose
description: Apropose, Inc. was a Mountain View, California startup spun out of the Stanford University Computer Science Department
  in 2013 to bring data-driven software to web design. Founded by Ranjitha Kumar, Jerry Talton, Maxine Lim, and Arvind Satyanarayan,
  the company built tools for large-scale visual page search and web design analytics — letting teams track design trends,
  compare a site's design against demographics, and surface prevalent design patterns to inject concrete data into the design
  process. It raised a roughly $1.875M seed round in 2014 led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z),
  with angels including Pat Hanrahan and Nick McKeown. The company has since ceased operations and is permanently closed;
  it publishes no public API, developer portal, or documentation, and its primary domain (apropose.com) is now parked and
  listed for sale. This profile is retained as an a16z portfolio-lead record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apropose/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- NEA
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Company ceased operations and is permanently closed. apropose.com redirects to an Afternic domain-for-sale
  parking page (HTTP 307); apropose.ai and apropose.io do not resolve. No live API or developer surface exists to enrich.
x-founded: '2013'
x-founders:
- Ranjitha Kumar
- Jerry Talton
- Maxine Lim
- Arvind Satyanarayan
x-headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States
x-origin: Stanford University Computer Science Department spinout
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Web Design
- Design Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Data Visualization
- Stanford Spinout
- a16z Portfolio
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