BankOns was a San Mateo, California mobile savings startup founded in the summer of 2010 by Joshua Greenough, a former VP of Operations at PowerReviews. Launched in May 2011, the app connected a user's bank transaction history to their location, analyzing spending habits to surface the nearby merchant deals and rewards best suited to them, drawing on Foursquare and other local deals data. The name was a contraction of "bank" and "coupons". BankOns was seed funded by 500 Startups (now 500 Global) plus a friends-and-family round. In May 2012 Capital One acquired select BankOns software through a limited asset purchase agreement, and several team members including Greenough joined Capital One Labs. The product was wound down and the company no longer operates a consumer service or a developer platform. The bankons.com domain resolves to a GoDaddy parking lander with no content, and no API, documentation, SDK, or developer surface exists.
BankOns is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, Financial-Services, and Fintech.
aid: bankons
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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
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source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bankons.png
name: BankOns
description: BankOns was a San Mateo, California mobile savings startup founded in the summer of 2010 by Joshua Greenough,
a former VP of Operations at PowerReviews. Launched in May 2011, the app connected a user's bank transaction history to
their location, analyzing spending habits to surface the nearby merchant deals and rewards best suited to them, drawing
on Foursquare and other local deals data. The name was a contraction of "bank" and "coupons". BankOns was seed funded by
500 Startups (now 500 Global) plus a friends-and-family round. In May 2012 Capital One acquired select BankOns software
through a limited asset purchase agreement, and several team members including Greenough joined Capital One Labs. The product
was wound down and the company no longer operates a consumer service or a developer platform. The bankons.com domain resolves
to a GoDaddy parking lander with no content, and no API, documentation, SDK, or developer surface exists.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bankons/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Assets and team acquired by Capital One in May 2012; domain parked and no operating product or API surface
as of 2026-07-20.
x-acquired-by: Capital One
x-acquired-date: 2012-05
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Financial-Services
- Fintech
- Mobile
- Personal Finance
- Rewards
- Deals
- Consumer
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Mobile
- Personal Finance
- Rewards
- Deals
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/bankons-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://bankons.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
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