# Aviate

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aviate/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Mobile, Android, Consumer Applications, Contextual Computing, Acquired, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/aviate/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.