Leade.rs

aid: leaders
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/leaders.png
name: Leade.rs
description: Leade.rs, Inc. was a two-sided marketplace that matched keynote, motivational, and business speakers with the
  conferences, corporate events, brands, and press that wanted to book them. Event organizers could search a curated roster
  and create an event, while speakers maintained a profile covering their availability and topics — the platform's stated
  aim was to remove the cold-outreach grind from conference programming and surface newer and more diverse voices. The company
  was co-founded by Loïc Le Meur, the French entrepreneur behind the LeWeb conference and a Silicon Valley angel investor;
  at acquisition its network was reported at roughly 300 speakers across 11 core fields including crypto, AI, and entrepreneurship.
  ASX-listed Animoca Brands acquired 100% of the equity on 6 May 2019 for US$0.5 million upfront, intending to grow the roster
  into a mentor and investor network bridging East and West alongside its Zeroth accelerator, with Le Meur joining Animoca
  as a venture partner. The product did not survive the acquisition. Leade.rs never published a public API, developer portal,
  SDK, or machine-readable documentation, and as of the July 2026 enrichment pass the leade.rs domain no longer resolves —
  it remains registered through December 2026 and is delegated to EuroDNS nameservers, but the zone is not served, so there
  is no live surface of any kind to harvest. This profile is retained as a historical company record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leaders/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'Leade.rs never published a public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable documentation, and
  as of the July 2026 enrichment pass the leade.rs domain no longer resolves — it remains registered '
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: animoca-brands
x-acquired-year: 2019
x-status-detail: Acquired by Animoca Brands 6 May 2019 for US$0.5M upfront; product wound down. Domain leade.rs registered
  2014-12-04 and paid through 2026-12-04 (registrar United Internet / EuroDNS) and delegated at the .rs registry to ns1-4.eurodns.com,
  but those nameservers REFUSE the zone, so the domain returns no A record and curl fails to resolve (HTTP 000) as of 2026-07-19.
  Wayback shows a domain-parking placeholder served from at least 2024-07 through the last capture on 2026-01-13; the parking
  page returns HTTP 200 HTML for every path, including /.well-known/*, so archived .well-known 200s are parking noise and
  not real artifacts.
x-founders:
- Loïc Le Meur
x-api-surface: none
x-api-surface-reason: Speaker-booking marketplace that never shipped a public API, developer portal, SDK, or docs; domain
  non-resolving at enrichment time (2026-07-19). The surviving GitHub org github.com/leade-rs holds a single public repo that
  is a fork of phusion/baseimage-docker, not first-party client code, so no Packages/SDKs artifact exists.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Event
- Conferences
- Speakers
- Marketplace
- Talent
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Events
- Conferences
- Speakers
- Marketplace
- Talent
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  name: Leade.rs Website (non-resolving as of 2026-07-19)
  url: https://leade.rs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: Leade.rs on GitHub
  url: https://github.com/leade-rs
- type: LinkedIn
  name: Leade.rs on LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leade.rs
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