CliQr Technologies *

CliQr Technologies was a San Jose, California cloud management software company, backed by GV (Google Ventures) and Google Capital, that built the CloudCenter platform for application-defined hybrid cloud orchestration. Its single application profile let enterprises model, deploy, and manage workloads across bare-metal, virtualized, and container environments and across public clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace) and private clouds (OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware vCloud). Cisco announced its intent to acquire CliQr for $260 million in March 2016 and folded the product into Cisco CloudCenter as part of its hybrid cloud strategy; CliQr no longer operates as an independent company and maintains no active developer surface, API, or documentation.

CliQr Technologies * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud, and Cloud Orchestration.

📡 Source on GitHub

5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cliqr-technologies
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/cliqr-technologies.png
name: CliQr Technologies *
description: CliQr Technologies was a San Jose, California cloud management software company, backed by GV (Google Ventures)
  and Google Capital, that built the CloudCenter platform for application-defined hybrid cloud orchestration. Its single application
  profile let enterprises model, deploy, and manage workloads across bare-metal, virtualized, and container environments and
  across public clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace) and private clouds (OpenStack, CloudStack,
  VMware vCloud). Cisco announced its intent to acquire CliQr for $260 million in March 2016 and folded the product into Cisco
  CloudCenter as part of its hybrid cloud strategy; CliQr no longer operates as an independent company and maintains no active
  developer surface, API, or documentation.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cliqr-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-date: '2016-03-01'
x-acquired-amount-usd: 260000000
x-successor-product: Cisco CloudCenter
x-enrichment-note: Defunct as an independent company; absorbed into Cisco CloudCenter (since EOL). No live domain (cliqr.com
  does not respond; cliqrtech.com/www.cliqr.com do not resolve as of 2026-07-18), no API, docs, packages, or OpenAPI to search/derive/generate.
  No provider artifacts created (no fabrication).
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Cloud Management
- Hybrid Cloud
- Cloud Orchestration
- DevOps
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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