Aviate

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.'
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: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aviate.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aviate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
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'
  api_surface: none
  evidence:
  - 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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
  url: https://github.com/ThumbsUpLabs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1