Kango

Kango is an on-demand rides and childcare platform for families, connecting parents and schools with background-checked, fingerprinted drivers and sitters who transport and care for children from preschool through high school. Operated by Dolightful, Inc. and backed by 500 Global, Kango offers prescheduled and same-day rides, real-time ride tracking, in-app communication with drivers, provided car and booster seats, in-home sitter sessions, and a free carpool feature promoted by schools and camps. It runs on iOS and Android apps using a subscription plus per-ride and per-session fee model. Kango is a consumer mobile product and publishes no public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface at this time.

Kango is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Childcare, Transportation, Ridesharing, and Family.

Kango’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 4 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kango
name: Kango
description: Kango is an on-demand rides and childcare platform for families, connecting parents and schools with background-checked,
  fingerprinted drivers and sitters who transport and care for children from preschool through high school. Operated by Dolightful,
  Inc. and backed by 500 Global, Kango offers prescheduled and same-day rides, real-time ride tracking, in-app communication
  with drivers, provided car and booster seats, in-home sitter sessions, and a free carpool feature promoted by schools and
  camps. It runs on iOS and Android apps using a subscription plus per-ride and per-session fee model. Kango is a consumer
  mobile product and publishes no public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kango/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://images.kangoapp.com/s/og/home-page-og.png
tags:
- Company
- Childcare
- Transportation
- Ridesharing
- Family
- Mobility
- On-Demand
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kango-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kangoapp.co
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kangoapp.co/contact.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kangoapp.com/news.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kangoapp.com/terms.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kangoapp.com/privacy.html
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence