# Color Labs Inc. (Apple)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/color-labs-inc-apple/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Color Labs Inc. was a Palo Alto, California social photo-sharing startup founded in 2011 by Bill Nguyen and Peter Pham. Its Color mobile app let people photograph and browse photos taken nearby, grouping content by proximity and social graph. The company raised roughly $41 million before launch — $25 million from Sequoia Capital, $9 million from Bain Capital Ventures, and $7 million in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank — and reportedly declined a $200 million acquisition offer from Google. After a March 2011 launch that drew about a million downloads but fell under 100,000 active users by September 2011, the board voted in October 2012 to wind the company down and the service closed at the end of that year. Apple then acqui-hired the remaining engineering team in a talent acquisition reported at roughly $2–7 million. Color Labs never shipped a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal, and it has had no live web or API surface since 2012. Its former domain, color.com, is today operated by the unrelated Color Health, Inc. This profile is retained as a historical record of a Bain Capital Ventures portfolio company; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

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

## 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 |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Commerce, Defunct, Acquired, Social, Photo Sharing, Mobile, Consumer

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