Crowdery was a consumer retail and e-commerce startup backed by a16z, listed on the a16z investment list. Its product inverted the traditional retail sales model: shoppers voted on product designs from a curated set, Crowdery assembled a personalized marketplace from each shopper's top picks, and the highest-voted products were opened for pre-order at a discount. For brands it offered consumer feedback loops, pre-production demographic analytics, and pre-orders intended to de-risk manufacturing runs. The company never shipped a public API or developer program. As of July 2026 Crowdery appears defunct: the apex domain crowdery.com serves a Doteasy hosting placeholder page, www.crowdery.com still delegates to a decommissioned Heroku prelaunch application that returns 404, and no developer portal, documentation, GitHub organization, or API surface could be found. This profile is retained as a historical a16z portfolio record with no API surface to enrich.
Crowdery is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer, and Marketplace.
aid: crowdery
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/crowdery.png
name: Crowdery
description: 'Crowdery was a consumer retail and e-commerce startup backed by a16z, listed on the a16z investment list. Its
product inverted the traditional retail sales model: shoppers voted on product designs from a curated set, Crowdery assembled
a personalized marketplace from each shopper''s top picks, and the highest-voted products were opened for pre-order at a
discount. For brands it offered consumer feedback loops, pre-production demographic analytics, and pre-orders intended to
de-risk manufacturing runs. The company never shipped a public API or developer program. As of July 2026 Crowdery appears
defunct: the apex domain crowdery.com serves a Doteasy hosting placeholder page, www.crowdery.com still delegates to a decommissioned
Heroku prelaunch application that returns 404, and no developer portal, documentation, GitHub organization, or API surface
could be found. This profile is retained as a historical a16z portfolio record with no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crowdery/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Consumer
- Marketplace
- Crowdsourcing
- Pre-Order
- Defunct
- No API
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
name: Crowdery Website (parked placeholder)
url: https://crowdery.com/
- type: InvestmentList
name: a16z Investment List
url: https://a16z.com/investment-list/
- type: Archive
name: Crowdery homepage (Internet Archive, 2013)
url: http://web.archive.org/web/20131220212321/http://www.crowdery.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
name: Domain Security Probe
url: security/crowdery-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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