BeBop Sensors was a Berkeley, California smart-fabric sensor company founded in 2014 that designed and manufactured flexible, fabric-based pressure and touch sensors for OEMs across robotics, medical devices, automotive interiors, and virtual reality. Its best known products were haptic VR gloves and "intelligent sensing technology" surfaces that turned ordinary materials into multi-touch, pressure-sensitive inputs. The company raised a $10M+ Series A led by Bullpen Capital and shipped custom sensor hardware paired with bespoke firmware and integration software for enterprise customers. BeBop sold engineered hardware under contract rather than a self-serve developer product, and never published a public API, developer portal, or SDK. The company is no longer operating and its former domain has been repurposed by an unrelated third party.
BeBop Sensors is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Haptics, Sensors, Wearables, and Virtual Reality.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
aid: bebop-sensors
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/bebop-sensors.png
name: BeBop Sensors
description: BeBop Sensors was a Berkeley, California smart-fabric sensor company founded in 2014 that designed and manufactured
flexible, fabric-based pressure and touch sensors for OEMs across robotics, medical devices, automotive interiors, and virtual
reality. Its best known products were haptic VR gloves and "intelligent sensing technology" surfaces that turned ordinary
materials into multi-touch, pressure-sensitive inputs. The company raised a $10M+ Series A led by Bullpen Capital and shipped
custom sensor hardware paired with bespoke firmware and integration software for enterprise customers. BeBop sold engineered
hardware under contract rather than a self-serve developer product, and never published a public API, developer portal,
or SDK. The company is no longer operating and its former domain has been repurposed by an unrelated third party.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bebop-sensors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bullpen-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment-status: dead-domain
x-enrichment-note: 'Re-verified 2026-07-20; the 2026-07-18 finding stands. The registered domain bebopsensors.com / www.bebopsensors.com
no longer belongs to the BeBop Sensors smart-fabric sensor company: it returns HTTP 200 serving an unrelated French-language
Canadian online casino affiliate WordPress site (title "Casino en ligne Canada | Top 10 meilleurs casinos payants en 2026",
content dated 2026-03 to 2026-06). /api, /developer, /docs, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt all 404. The Website
pointer to that domain was REMOVED this pass so the network does not attribute casino content to this company; the domain
of record is retained here in the note only. Additional 2026-07-20 probes: GitHub org BeBopSensors (created 2016-01-31)
exists but has 0 public repositories; no npm or PyPI packages under the name; getbebop.com is a parked HugeDomains for-sale
listing. The last Wayback capture of the real company site is 2023-03-26, and the 2022-06-01 capture describes APIs only
as part of bespoke custom-engineering engagements ("we can partner with you to create custom hardware and software, including
APIs"), never as a public product. Note on provenance: several aggregator pages claim Sensata Technologies acquired BeBop
in January 2022, but that claim is NOT corroborated by any primary source - the company''s own archived site from June 2022
contains zero mentions of Sensata, and the Sensata newsroom/SEC results surfaced are about a different acquisition (Custom
Sensors & Technologies). The acquisition is therefore recorded as unverified and deliberately not asserted as fact. No API,
SDK, docs, developer portal, or event surface exists to harvest; no artifacts were generated because doing so would require
fabrication.'
tags:
- Company
- Haptics
- Sensors
- Wearables
- Virtual Reality
- Smart Fabric
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
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