Cruise Technologies

Cruise Technologies was a wireless thin-client computing company founded in 1997 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It developed the CruiseConnect platform, which enabled server-class and wireless thin-client computing delivered through OEM and licensing partners worldwide. The company raised roughly $12M from Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, was acquired in 1999, and has since ceased operations. It was surfaced as a historical entry on the Battery Ventures list-of-all-companies roster and added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio lead. Enrichment confirmed the company is defunct: it has no live website, no developer portal, no documentation, and no API surface of any kind. The former cruisetechnologies.com domain is a parked HugeDomains for-sale listing, not a company property. This profile is retained as a historical record only and requires no further enrichment.

Cruise Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Thin Client, Wireless, and Enterprise Computing.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDefunctThin ClientWirelessEnterprise ComputingOEMHistorical

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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)

aid: cruise-technologies
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/cruise-technologies.png
name: Cruise Technologies
description: 'Cruise Technologies was a wireless thin-client computing company founded in 1997 and based in Arlington Heights,
  Illinois. It developed the CruiseConnect platform, which enabled server-class and wireless thin-client computing delivered
  through OEM and licensing partners worldwide. The company raised roughly $12M from Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture
  Partners, was acquired in 1999, and has since ceased operations. It was surfaced as a historical entry on the Battery Ventures
  list-of-all-companies roster and added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio lead. Enrichment confirmed the company
  is defunct: it has no live website, no developer portal, no documentation, and no API surface of any kind. The former cruisetechnologies.com
  domain is a parked HugeDomains for-sale listing, not a company property. This profile is retained as a historical record
  only and requires no further enrichment.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cruise-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
  founded: '1997'
  headquarters: Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
  product: CruiseConnect wireless thin-client computing platform
  funding_raised: $12M
  acquired: '1999'
  ceased_operations: true
  former_domain: cruisetechnologies.com
  former_domain_status: parked (HugeDomains for-sale listing, HTTP 302 -> hugedomains.com)
  api_surface: none
  sources:
  - https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/
  - https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/cruise-technologies
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Thin Client
- Wireless
- Enterprise Computing
- OEM
- Historical
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1