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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyEducationEdTechK-12Student Information SystemsData IntegrationAnalyticsAcquiredDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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)

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: '0.20'
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.