Joyride

Joyride was a mobile audio service that made driving more fun and more interesting, offering an in-car audio/entertainment experience for drivers and passengers. Founded by Jeff Chen (co-founder & CEO) and James Zhang (co-founder & CTO), the company raised a seed round from Cowboy Ventures and was subsequently acquired by Google, marking a successful exit. As a consumer mobile application it exposed no public developer API surface, and the product is no longer independently operated following the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network for portfolio-graph completeness rather than as an active API provider.

Joyride is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Audio, Mobile, and Automotive.

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Company Consumer Audio Mobile Automotive Entertainment Acquired

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Mobile SDK Publishers (Play SDK Index, CocoaPods, ADA certification)	undeclared	-	-	-

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ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: joyride
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: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/joyride.png
name: Joyride
description: Joyride was a mobile audio service that made driving more fun and more interesting, offering an in-car audio/entertainment
  experience for drivers and passengers. Founded by Jeff Chen (co-founder & CEO) and James Zhang (co-founder & CTO), the company
  raised a seed round from Cowboy Ventures and was subsequently acquired by Google, marking a successful exit. As a consumer
  mobile application it exposed no public developer API surface, and the product is no longer independently operated following
  the acquisition. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network for portfolio-graph completeness rather than as
  an active API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/joyride/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- cowboy-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: google
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Audio
- Mobile
- Automotive
- Entertainment
- Acquired
apis: []
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
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/google/
  name: Google
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Founded by Jeff Chen (co-founder & CEO) and James Zhang (co-founder & CTO), the company raised a seed round
    from Cowboy Ventures and was subsequently acquired by Google, marking a successful exit.

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