Aviate

Aviate was an "intelligent homescreen" launcher for Android, built by ThumbsUp Labs (founded 2011 by Paul Montoy-Wilson, William Choi, and Mark Daiss). The app reorganized a phone home screen contextually — surfacing apps, contacts, and information based on time, location, and activity. It raised a $1.8M seed round in May 2013 from Highland Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Freestyle Capital, and Draper Associates, and was acquired by Yahoo in January 2014. Yahoo discontinued the Aviate launcher on March 8, 2018. The company is defunct: it never shipped a public API, developer portal, or SDK, aviate.com is now a parked domain listed for sale, aviate.yahoo.com redirects to downloads.yahoo.com, and the ThumbsUp Labs GitHub organization has no public repositories.

Aviate is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Mobile, Android, Consumer Applications, and Contextual Computing.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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aid: aviate
name: Aviate
description: 'Aviate was an "intelligent homescreen" launcher for Android, built by ThumbsUp Labs (founded 2011 by Paul Montoy-Wilson,
  William Choi, and Mark Daiss). The app reorganized a phone home screen contextually — surfacing apps, contacts, and information
  based on time, location, and activity. It raised a $1.8M seed round in May 2013 from Highland Capital Partners, Andreessen
  Horowitz, Freestyle Capital, and Draper Associates, and was acquired by Yahoo in January 2014. Yahoo discontinued the Aviate
  launcher on March 8, 2018. The company is defunct: it never shipped a public API, developer portal, or SDK, aviate.com is
  now a parked domain listed for sale, aviate.yahoo.com redirects to downloads.yahoo.com, and the ThumbsUp Labs GitHub organization
  has no public repositories.'
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  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
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x-status-detail:
  founded: '2011'
  company: ThumbsUp Labs, Inc.
  seed_round: '2013-05-10'
  acquired_by: Yahoo
  acquired: '2014-01-07'
  product_discontinued: '2018-03-08'
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  - url: https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/10/market-for-apperating-systems-heats-up-as-highland-capital-andreesen-horowitz-others-put-1-8m-into-aviate-an-intelligent-homescreen-for-android/
    note: $1.8M seed round including Andreessen Horowitz
  - url: https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/yahoo-announces-that-it-has-acquired-intelligent-homescreen-startup-aviate/
    note: Yahoo acquisition announcement
  - url: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/02/yahoo-ends-support-aviate-launcher-march-8/
    note: Yahoo ends support for Aviate Launcher, March 8 2018
  probes:
  - url: https://aviate.com/
    status: 307
    note: redirects to afternic.com domain-for-sale parking
  - url: https://aviate.yahoo.com/
    status: 301
    note: redirects to downloads.yahoo.com
  - url: https://developer.aviate.com/
    status: 0
    note: does not resolve
  - url: https://api.aviate.com/
    status: 0
    note: does not resolve
  - url: https://www.getaviate.com/
    status: 0
    note: does not resolve
  - url: https://api.github.com/users/thumbsuplabs
    status: 200
    note: org exists, 0 public repositories
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Mobile
- Android
- Consumer Applications
- Contextual Computing
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: ThumbsUp Labs GitHub Organization
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-19'
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