LearnSprout

LearnSprout was a San Francisco edtech company founded in 2012 by Franklyn Chien, Anthony Wu and Joe Woo out of the Imagine K12 accelerator. It built LearnSprout Connect, an API layer that unlocked K-12 student data held in student information systems (SIS) through direct database integration rather than the SIS application layer, giving edtech developers a single "once and done" integration plus a change-log endpoint for incremental syncs. It also sold a district-facing analytics product covering attendance, grades and college readiness, reaching over 2,500 schools across 42 states on roughly $4.7M raised from Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8 and Samsung Ventures. Apple acquired the company in January 2016 and the public API was retired; learnsprout.com no longer resolves and is parked on Apple nameservers.

LearnSprout is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, EdTech, K-12, and Student Information Systems.

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0.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyEducationEdTechK-12Student Information SystemsData IntegrationAnalyticsAcquiredDefunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 0.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: learnsprout
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/learnsprout.png
name: LearnSprout
description: LearnSprout was a San Francisco edtech company founded in 2012 by Franklyn Chien, Anthony Wu and Joe Woo out
  of the Imagine K12 accelerator. It built LearnSprout Connect, an API layer that unlocked K-12 student data held in student
  information systems (SIS) through direct database integration rather than the SIS application layer, giving edtech developers
  a single "once and done" integration plus a change-log endpoint for incremental syncs. It also sold a district-facing analytics
  product covering attendance, grades and college readiness, reaching over 2,500 schools across 42 states on roughly $4.7M
  raised from Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8 and Samsung Ventures. Apple acquired the company in January 2016 and the public
  API was retired; learnsprout.com no longer resolves and is parked on Apple nameservers.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/learnsprout/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Formation 8
- Samsung Ventures
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: acquired
x-acquired-by: Apple
x-acquired-date: 2016-01
x-founded: '2012'
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-live-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- K-12
- Student Information Systems
- Data Integration
- Analytics
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  last-run: '2026-07-19'
  result: no-live-surface
  note: 'Enrichment attempted 2026-07-19. No artifacts were written because the provider has no live public surface. Historical
    developer documentation survives only in the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20131107030713/http://developers.learnsprout.com/)
    and was NOT used to synthesize an OpenAPI, MCP server, skills or conventions artifact, since doing so would describe an
    API that has not existed since 2016. Future re-runs should short-circuit on x-status: defunct.'
  probes:
  - target: https://learnsprout.com/
    status: 0
    detail: DNS does not resolve; no A record. NS delegated to a/b/c/d.ns.apple.com (Com Laude registrar).
  - target: https://www.learnsprout.com/
    status: 0
    detail: DNS does not resolve.
  - target: https://api.learnsprout.com/
    status: 0
    detail: DNS does not resolve.
  - target: https://developers.learnsprout.com/
    status: 0
    detail: DNS does not resolve.
  - target: https://github.com/learnsprout
    status: 200
    detail: Org shell only, created 2026-03-12 with 0 public repos. Not the original company; treated as a name squat and
      deliberately NOT linked as GitHubOrganization.
  - target: https://registry.npmjs.org/-/v1/search?text=learnsprout
    status: 200
    detail: 0 packages.
  - target: https://pypi.org/pypi/learnsprout/json
    status: 404
    detail: No PyPI package.