# Checkerspot

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/checkerspot/  
**Website:** https://www.checkerspot.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Checkerspot is an Alameda, California biotechnology company, founded in 2016 and incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation, that designs and produces functional fats and oils through precision fermentation of microalgae. Its biology-driven molecule licensing platform pairs algal strain development, an advanced analytical platform, bioinformatics, high-throughput screening, fermentation scale-up and downstream oil refining, built around the proprietary microbe Prototheca moriformis, which the company reports reaches over 80% oil content by dry cell weight. The commercial molecule portfolio includes a high sn-2 palmitate algal oil that mimics the triglyceride structure of human milk fat for infant nutrition, an Omega-7 (palmitoleic acid) algal oil, a designer high-oleic tropical-fat alternative to palm oil, and Algolein tG C18/80 for cosmetic formulation; earlier work commercialized algae-derived urethane composites through the WNDR Alpine outdoor brand. Checkerspot works through ingredient and manufacturing partners including AAK, Huvepharma and La Fabrique Vegetale, and closed a USD 55 million Series C led by ArrowMark Partners with participation from Cox Enterprises. It is a business-to-business ingredient and molecule licensing company rather than a software vendor: it operates a WordPress marketing site, publishes no developer portal, no API documentation, no SDK and no machine-readable API contract, and has no GitHub organization.

## Kin Score — 10.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.8 from 11.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Checkerspot Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Biotechnology, Precision Fermentation, Synthetic Biology, Microalgae, Lipids, Fats and Oils, Ingredients, Infant Nutrition, Food Technology, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Materials, Sustainability, United States

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/checkerspot/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.