BackWeb

BackWeb Technologies Ltd. was an Israeli-American enterprise software company founded in 1995 by Eli Barkat, Nir Barkat, Yuval Rakavy, Iftah Sneh and Lior Hass, with offices in Ramat Gan, Israel and San Jose, California. BackWeb pioneered "Polite" push technology — background delivery of software updates, patches, alerts and marketing content to desktops using only idle bandwidth so it did not disrupt the user or the corporate network. Its Polite Communication Server, Offline Access Server, e-Accelerator and Proactive Portal products were deployed by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Ericsson, Compaq and SAP, and integrators used the BackWeb Server Extension API and BackWeb Automation SDK to publish content from external data sources into the Polite server. The company IPO'd on NASDAQ (BWEB) in June 1999 after raising roughly $13M privately from investors including Goldman Sachs, Intel and Trinity Ventures, peaking near $38M in annual revenue. It never recovered from the dot-com collapse, was delisted from NASDAQ and moved to the OTC Bulletin Board, approved a voluntary liquidation in 2012, suspended operations and divested its patents in 2014, and began distributing remaining cash to shareholders. BackWeb is defunct: there is no operating company, no developer portal, and no live API. The backweb.com domain is a parked Afternic for-sale lander. This profile is retained as a historical record only.

BackWeb is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Software, Push Technology, Content Delivery, and Software Distribution.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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: backweb
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: BackWeb
description: 'BackWeb Technologies Ltd. was an Israeli-American enterprise software company founded in 1995 by Eli Barkat,
  Nir Barkat, Yuval Rakavy, Iftah Sneh and Lior Hass, with offices in Ramat Gan, Israel and San Jose, California. BackWeb
  pioneered "Polite" push technology — background delivery of software updates, patches, alerts and marketing content to desktops
  using only idle bandwidth so it did not disrupt the user or the corporate network. Its Polite Communication Server, Offline
  Access Server, e-Accelerator and Proactive Portal products were deployed by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Ericsson, Compaq
  and SAP, and integrators used the BackWeb Server Extension API and BackWeb Automation SDK to publish content from external
  data sources into the Polite server. The company IPO''d on NASDAQ (BWEB) in June 1999 after raising roughly $13M privately
  from investors including Goldman Sachs, Intel and Trinity Ventures, peaking near $38M in annual revenue. It never recovered
  from the dot-com collapse, was delisted from NASDAQ and moved to the OTC Bulletin Board, approved a voluntary liquidation
  in 2012, suspended operations and divested its patents in 2014, and began distributing remaining cash to shareholders. BackWeb
  is defunct: there is no operating company, no developer portal, and no live API. The backweb.com domain is a parked Afternic
  for-sale lander. This profile is retained as a historical record only.'
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- trinity-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Voluntary liquidation approved 2012; operations suspended and patents divested 2014; OTC trading ceased 2014-11-08.
  No successor entity. Domain backweb.com is parked and listed for sale on Afternic (HTTP 307 redirect to afternic.com/forsale/backweb.com,
  probed 2026-07-20).
x-founded: '1995'
x-ipo: '1999-06-01'
x-ticker: BWEB
x-historical-apis:
- name: BackWeb Server Extension API
  description: Integration API allowing the BackWeb Polite Communication Server to be fed by any digital data source. Discontinued
    with the company; no specification survives publicly.
- name: BackWeb Automation SDK
  description: SDK and Automation Editor with APIs and supplied programs bridging the Polite Communication Server and external
    data sources. Discontinued with the company.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise Software
- Push Technology
- Content Delivery
- Software Distribution
- Israel
- Defunct
- Historical
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
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