# Cruise Technologies

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cruise-technologies/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

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

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | 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, Defunct, Thin Client, Wireless, Enterprise Computing, OEM, Historical

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