Connected (Connected HQ, Inc.) was a social CRM and contact-management startup that pulled a user's address book, email and social accounts together into a single continuously-updated relationship manager. Backed by 500 Global, it was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011 and folded into the LinkedIn-branded "Connected" product, after which the standalone service was retired. Connected never shipped a public developer program, API, SDK or documentation. The connectedhq.com domain is still defensively held by the acquirer (MarkMonitor registrar, Azure DNS and NS1 nameservers, SPF and DMARC p=reject, RFC 7505 null MX) but publishes no A record and serves no content. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
Connected is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, CRM, and Contacts.
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aid: connected
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/connected.png
name: Connected
description: Connected (Connected HQ, Inc.) was a social CRM and contact-management startup that pulled a user's address book,
email and social accounts together into a single continuously-updated relationship manager. Backed by 500 Global, it was
acquired by LinkedIn in October 2011 and folded into the LinkedIn-branded "Connected" product, after which the standalone
service was retired. Connected never shipped a public developer program, API, SDK or documentation. The connectedhq.com
domain is still defensively held by the acquirer (MarkMonitor registrar, Azure DNS and NS1 nameservers, SPF and DMARC p=reject,
RFC 7505 null MX) but publishes no A record and serves no content. This profile is retained as a historical record; there
is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/connected/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: linkedin
x-acquired-date: 2011-10
x-domain-status: parked-by-acquirer
x-domain-note: connectedhq.com (created 2010-03-08, registry expiry 2027-03-08) remains under MarkMonitor with Azure DNS +
NS1 nameservers and an RFC 7505 null MX, consistent with a domain held defensively by LinkedIn/Microsoft after the acquisition.
It resolves no A or CNAME record and serves no site, so it is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- CRM
- Contacts
- Address Book
- Relationship Management
- Social
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/connected-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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