KNO

Kno, Inc. was a digital textbook and student learning platform founded in May 2009 in Santa Clara, California by CEO Osman Rashid (co-founder of Chegg) and CTO Babur Habib. Kno began as a dual-screen tablet built for students, abandoned hardware in 2011, and pivoted to eTextbook software delivered across iPad, Android, Windows and the web in partnership with textbook publishers. The company raised roughly $93 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Advance Publications and GSV Capital before being acquired by Intel in November 2013 for approximately $15 million and rebranded as Intel Education Study, which has itself since been discontinued. As of enrichment the kno.com domain is parked and redirects to a third-party domain brokerage, and the provider exposes no public API, developer portal, documentation, SDK, or other artifact surface to enrich.

KNO is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, EdTech, Digital Textbooks, and E-Books.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEducationEdTechDigital TextbooksE-BooksLearning PlatformPublishingConsumerDefunct

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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: kno
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/kno.png
name: KNO
description: Kno, Inc. was a digital textbook and student learning platform founded in May 2009 in Santa Clara, California
  by CEO Osman Rashid (co-founder of Chegg) and CTO Babur Habib. Kno began as a dual-screen tablet built for students, abandoned
  hardware in 2011, and pivoted to eTextbook software delivered across iPad, Android, Windows and the web in partnership with
  textbook publishers. The company raised roughly $93 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE,
  First Round Capital, SV Angel, Advance Publications and GSV Capital before being acquired by Intel in November 2013 for
  approximately $15 million and rebranded as Intel Education Study, which has itself since been discontinued. As of enrichment
  the kno.com domain is parked and redirects to a third-party domain brokerage, and the provider exposes no public API, developer
  portal, documentation, SDK, or other artifact surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kno/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Intel
x-acquired-date: 2013-11
x-api-surface: none
x-founded: 2009-05
x-headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States
x-reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kno
x-source-list: https://a16z.com/investment-list/
x-domain-status: kno.com HTTP 200 -> redirects to https://www.gritbrokerage.com/inquiry (domain broker parking page, no longer
  operated by the company)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- Digital Textbooks
- E-Books
- Learning Platform
- Publishing
- Consumer
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence