Bebop

Bebop (bebop.co) was a stealth-mode enterprise software startup founded by Diane Greene, co-founder and former CEO of VMware, building a development platform intended to make it easier to build and maintain enterprise applications. The company never shipped a public product, developer portal, or API, and was acquired by Google on November 19, 2015 for approximately $380 million, at which point Diane Greene was named head of Google's newly consolidated enterprise cloud business (Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps). The acquired technology was later folded into Google Hire, which Google shut down in 2019. Bebop is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical a16z portfolio record; it has no live domain, no public API surface, and no developer artifacts to enrich.

Bebop is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Acquired, Enterprise Software, Application Development, and Cloud.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyAcquiredEnterprise SoftwareApplication DevelopmentCloudHistoricalNo API

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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: bebop
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.png
name: Bebop
description: Bebop (bebop.co) was a stealth-mode enterprise software startup founded by Diane Greene, co-founder and former
  CEO of VMware, building a development platform intended to make it easier to build and maintain enterprise applications.
  The company never shipped a public product, developer portal, or API, and was acquired by Google on November 19, 2015 for
  approximately $380 million, at which point Diane Greene was named head of Google's newly consolidated enterprise cloud business
  (Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps). The acquired technology was later folded into Google Hire, which Google
  shut down in 2019. Bebop is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical a16z portfolio record; it has no live
  domain, no public API surface, and no developer artifacts to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bebop/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Google
x-acquired-date: '2015-11-19'
x-acquisition-amount-usd: 380000000
x-founders:
- Diane Greene
x-former-domain: bebop.co
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Acquired
- Enterprise Software
- Application Development
- Cloud
- Historical
- No API
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Company acquired by Google 2015; bebop.co does not resolve (no A record, SPF "v=spf1 -all", Google Domains NS). No
    developer portal, docs, GitHub org, or API surface exists to enrich. github.com/bebop (bebop.bio, synthetic biology) and
    github.com/bebop-inc (Tokyo) are unrelated companies.