Cardmunch

CardMunch was a mobile business-card scanning service that used human transcription to turn photographed business cards into contact records on iOS. Founded as a Y Combinator and 500 Global backed startup, it was acquired by LinkedIn in January 2011 for a reported sum under $3 million and operated as a free LinkedIn-branded iPhone app. LinkedIn discontinued the app on July 11, 2014, migrating its users to Evernote's business-card scanning feature. CardMunch never published a public developer program, API, or SDK, and the cardmunch.com domain was re-registered by an unrelated party in April 2016 and now hosts an affiliate content blog. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

Cardmunch is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, Business Cards, and Contacts.

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

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CompanyDefunctAcquiredBusiness CardsContactsMobileOCRProductivity

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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: cardmunch
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/cardmunch.png
name: Cardmunch
description: CardMunch was a mobile business-card scanning service that used human transcription to turn photographed business
  cards into contact records on iOS. Founded as a Y Combinator and 500 Global backed startup, it was acquired by LinkedIn
  in January 2011 for a reported sum under $3 million and operated as a free LinkedIn-branded iPhone app. LinkedIn discontinued
  the app on July 11, 2014, migrating its users to Evernote's business-card scanning feature. CardMunch never published a
  public developer program, API, or SDK, and the cardmunch.com domain was re-registered by an unrelated party in April 2016
  and now hosts an affiliate content blog. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cardmunch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: linkedin
x-acquired-date: '2011-01-26'
x-shutdown-date: '2014-07-11'
x-domain-status: reassigned
x-domain-note: cardmunch.com was re-registered 2016-04-17 (NameCheap / WPX hosting) by an unrelated party and now serves a
  WordPress affiliate blog reviewing other business-card scanner apps. It is NOT the CardMunch company and is deliberately
  not wired as a Website pointer.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Business Cards
- Contacts
- Mobile
- OCR
- Productivity
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