Latitude Communications

aid: latitude-communications
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: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/latitude-communications.png
name: Latitude Communications
description: 'Latitude Communications, Inc. was a Santa Clara, California enterprise conferencing company, incorporated in
  April 1993 and venture-backed by Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, Asset Management Associates, and Canaan Ventures (Canaan
  Partners). It developed, sold, and hosted MeetingPlace, an integrated voice and web conferencing system for geographically
  dispersed enterprises, first shipped commercially in December 1994 and sold to more than 430 enterprise customers by the
  end of 2002, including Aetna, Cisco, Credit Suisse First Boston, Fidelity Investments, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, and the
  U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. The company IPO''d on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol LATD at $12.00 per share in
  May 1999 and reported revenue of $43.4 million in 2000, $33.9 million in 2001, and $40.5 million in 2002. Cisco Systems
  acquired Latitude in a cash merger at $3.95 per share, completed in late 2003; Latitude filed a Form 15 terminating its
  SEC registration on 2004-01-13, and MeetingPlace was absorbed into Cisco''s conferencing line as Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.
  The company no longer operates as an independent entity and never published a public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable
  interface — its 10-K describes only internally developed APIs used to integrate MeetingPlace with web, e-mail, and fax servers.
  This profile is retained as a historical record of the Canaan Partners portfolio and is not an active API provider. NOTE:
  unrelated to the present-day latitude.sh bare-metal cloud provider and to the parked latitude.com page (see x-disambiguation).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/latitude-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'The company no longer operates as an independent entity and never published a public API, developer portal,
  SDK, or machine-readable interface — its 10-K describes only internally developed APIs used '
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: historical
x-tier-reason: acquired-2003-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
x-acquired-year: 2003
x-acquisition-value: $3.95 per share in cash
x-acquisition-source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078425/000104746903039065/a2123881zdefm14a.htm
x-headquarters: 2121 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States
x-founded: 1993-04
x-sec-cik: 0001078425
x-sec-file-number: 000-25475
x-sec-sic: '7373'
x-former-ticker: NASDAQ:LATD
x-deregistered: '2004-01-13'
x-investor-verification:
  claim: canaan-partners
  verified: true
  evidence: IPO prospectus (424B4, filed 1999-05-07) principal-stockholders table lists "Entities affiliated with Canaan Ventures"
    holding 784,090 shares, 5.0% before the offering. The same table lists Mayfield Fund (32.5%), Menlo Ventures IV, L.P.
    (28.4%), and Asset Management Associates (6.8%).
  source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1078425/0001012870-99-001455.txt
x-enrichment:
  last_run: '2026-07-19'
  result: no-api-surface
  artifacts: none
  rationale: 'Entity is defunct (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2003, SEC registration terminated 2004-01-13) and published
    no public API, developer portal, SDK, CLI, specification, or machine-readable interface. Its original hosts no longer
    belong to it: latitude.com is a parked page owned by an unrelated party and meetingplace.net no longer presents a valid
    certificate. Probing those hosts would attribute a third party''s posture to Latitude, so no well-known, domain-security,
    or vulnerability-disclosure artifacts were written. No artifacts were generated; fabricating any would be unfaithful.'
  probed:
  - url: https://latitude.com/
    status: 200
    note: parked page embedding a Google Form; no company information; not Latitude Communications
  - url: https://latitude.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://latitude.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://latitude-communications.com/
    status: 403
    note: unverified, does not resolve to any Latitude Communications property
  - url: https://meetingplace.net/
    status: 0
    note: TLS failure — no alternative certificate subject name matches the host; the former MeetingPlace product site (live
      in 2002 per the Internet Archive) is no longer operated
x-disambiguation:
- name: Latitude.sh
  url: https://www.latitude.sh/
  relationship: unrelated-name-collision
  note: 'Global bare-metal and GPU cloud infrastructure provider ("the global AI enabler cloud") operating across 25 locations.
    It DOES publish a real public API, developer portal, Go and Node SDKs, a CLI, and a Terraform provider (probed 2026-07-19:
    https://www.latitude.sh/ and https://docs.latitude.sh/ both HTTP 200). Founded decades after Latitude Communications and
    entirely unrelated to it — do not merge these profiles or attribute latitude.sh artifacts here.'
- name: latitude.com (present day)
  url: https://latitude.com/
  relationship: domain-changed-hands
  note: The domain Latitude Communications used through at least 2002 (Internet Archive snapshot 2002-05-29 shows the MeetingPlace
    marketing site and the webmaster@, support@, and info@ latitude.com contacts). As of 2026-07-19 it serves a bare page
    embedding a Google Form with no company identification, registered through GoDaddy. Not operated by any successor to Latitude
    Communications.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Conferencing
- Web Conferencing
- Voice Conferencing
- Unified Communications
- Collaboration
- Enterprise Software
- Telecommunications
- Acquired
- Historical
apis: []
common:
- type: Acquirer
  name: Cisco Systems, Inc.
  url: https://www.cisco.com/
- type: Filings
  name: SEC EDGAR — Latitude Communications, Inc. (CIK 0001078425)
  url: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001078425&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40
- type: Archive
  name: Internet Archive — latitude.com (2002-05-29)
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20020529230735/http://latitude.com:80/
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- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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