Cmd *

Cmd was a Vancouver, Canada-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2016 that built runtime security and observability purpose-built for Linux infrastructure, giving security and DevOps teams real-time visibility and policy-based control over user activity across cloud workloads. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), which led its $15M Series B in 2019, Cmd raised roughly $21.6M total before being acquired by Elastic in August 2021, where its technology was folded into the Elastic Security cloud workload protection and Limitless XDR offering. Co-founders Jake King (CSO) and Santosh Krishan joined Elastic through the acquisition. Cmd no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no live API, developer portal, or public API surface; this profile is retained as an acquired-company record in the API Evangelist network.

Cmd * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Security, Cybersecurity, and Linux.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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)

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name: Cmd *
description: Cmd was a Vancouver, Canada-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2016 that built runtime security and observability
  purpose-built for Linux infrastructure, giving security and DevOps teams real-time visibility and policy-based control over
  user activity across cloud workloads. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), which led its $15M Series B in 2019, Cmd raised roughly
  $21.6M total before being acquired by Elastic in August 2021, where its technology was folded into the Elastic Security
  cloud workload protection and Limitless XDR offering. Co-founders Jake King (CSO) and Santosh Krishan joined Elastic through
  the acquisition. Cmd no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no live API, developer portal, or public
  API surface; this profile is retained as an acquired-company record in the API Evangelist network.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: elastic
x-acquired-date: '2021-08-25'
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x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-live-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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- Security
- Cybersecurity
- Linux
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- Runtime Security
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apis: []
common:
- type: Acquisition
  name: Elastic and Cmd Join Forces (acquisition announcement)
  url: https://www.elastic.co/about/press/elastic-and-cmd-join-forces-to-help-customers-take-command-of-their-cloud-workloads
- type: LinkedIn
  name: Cmd (acquired by Elastic) on LinkedIn
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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