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HYCU

HYCU is an AI-powered data resilience and data protection platform that backs up, protects, and recovers more than 100 workloads across on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS environments. Its R-Cloud platform is delivered as a low-code data protection development platform that lets SaaS and AI application providers rapidly build and publish backup-and-recovery services to the R-Cloud Marketplace, alongside R-Shield for ransomware threat prevention and recoverability validation and aiR for querying backup data as an intelligence source. HYCU serves 4,800+ organizations across 78 countries and is recognized as a Leader by IDC and Gartner. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline; HYCU exposes a low-code developer platform rather than a public REST API.

HYCU is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI Infrastructure, Data Protection, Backup, and Disaster Recovery.

HYCU’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 10 more developer resources.

23.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyAI InfrastructureData ProtectionBackupDisaster RecoveryRansomwareData ResilienceSoftware-as-a-ServiceCloud

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hycu Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Hycu Trust Center

ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: hycu
name: HYCU
description: HYCU is an AI-powered data resilience and data protection platform that backs up, protects, and recovers more
  than 100 workloads across on-premises, public cloud, and SaaS environments. Its R-Cloud platform is delivered as a low-code
  data protection development platform that lets SaaS and AI application providers rapidly build and publish backup-and-recovery
  services to the R-Cloud Marketplace, alongside R-Shield for ransomware threat prevention and recoverability validation and
  aiR for querying backup data as an intelligence source. HYCU serves 4,800+ organizations across 78 countries and is recognized
  as a Leader by IDC and Gartner. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures and enriched by
  the API Evangelist pipeline; HYCU exposes a low-code developer platform rather than a public REST API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hycu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bain-capital-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://logo.clearbit.com/hycu.com
tags:
- Company
- AI Infrastructure
- Data Protection
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Ransomware
- Data Resilience
- Software-as-a-Service
- Cloud
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Infrastructure
- Data Protection
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Ransomware
- Data Resilience
- SaaS
- Cloud
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/hycu-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hycu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hycu.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://hycu.com/developer
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.hycu.com/hc/en-us/categories/15363454825500-Documentation
- type: Support
  url: https://support.hycu.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://hycu.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://hycu.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://hycu.com/trial
- type: Login
  url: https://r-cloud.hycu.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hycu.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hycu.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.hycu.com/solutions/security-compliance
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://hycu.com/solutions/marketplace
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hycu-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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