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Cheddar

Cheddar is a business and technology news media company producing live and on-demand video, articles, and newsletters covering financial markets, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and culture for a modern digital audience. Founded as a millennial-focused financial news network and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Comcast Ventures, and Altice USA, Cheddar streams programming such as Opening Bell, Big Business This Week, and NYSE TV Live across its website, connected-TV apps, and social platforms. It operates as a digital media and content publisher rather than an API or developer-platform company; this profile tracks Cheddar within the API Evangelist network and carries no public developer API surface at this time.

Cheddar is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, News, Business News, and Video.

Cheddar’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 4 more developer resources.

11.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanyMediaNewsBusiness NewsVideoStreamingTechnologyFinance

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cheddar Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cheddar
name: Cheddar
description: Cheddar is a business and technology news media company producing live and on-demand video, articles, and newsletters
  covering financial markets, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and culture for a modern digital audience. Founded
  as a millennial-focused financial news network and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Comcast Ventures,
  and Altice USA, Cheddar streams programming such as Opening Bell, Big Business This Week, and NYSE TV Live across its website,
  connected-TV apps, and social platforms. It operates as a digital media and content publisher rather than an API or developer-platform
  company; this profile tracks Cheddar within the API Evangelist network and carries no public developer API surface at this
  time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cheddar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
- ribbit-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.cheddar.com/pf/resources/img/favicons/che/apple-touch-icon.png
tags:
- Company
- Media
- News
- Business News
- Video
- Streaming
- Technology
- Finance
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cheddar-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cheddar.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cheddar.com/m/rss/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cheddar.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cheddar.com/privacy/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence