LendUp Global, Inc. was a San Francisco consumer-lending fintech backed by a16z, operating through LendUp Loans, LLC (formerly Flurish, Inc.) to offer short-term and installment credit to subprime borrowers. The company is DEFUNCT — LendUp Loans, LLC ceased loan operations in January 2022. It has no live developer surface, no public API, no documentation host, and no maintained code repositories. The lendup.com domain is now operated by an unrelated entity (LendUp LLC, Dover, DE) that publicly disclaims any corporate relationship to LendUp Global, Inc.; its properties must NOT be attributed to this company profile. Retained in the network as a historical a16z portfolio record.
LendUp Global is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Financial Services, Fintech, Lending, and Consumer Credit.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
Machine-Readable Auth+10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency+9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics+8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
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not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
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aid: lendup-global
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: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lendup-global.png
name: LendUp Global
description: LendUp Global, Inc. was a San Francisco consumer-lending fintech backed by a16z, operating through LendUp Loans,
LLC (formerly Flurish, Inc.) to offer short-term and installment credit to subprime borrowers. The company is DEFUNCT —
LendUp Loans, LLC ceased loan operations in January 2022. It has no live developer surface, no public API, no documentation
host, and no maintained code repositories. The lendup.com domain is now operated by an unrelated entity (LendUp LLC, Dover,
DE) that publicly disclaims any corporate relationship to LendUp Global, Inc.; its properties must NOT be attributed to
this company profile. Retained in the network as a historical a16z portfolio record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lendup-global/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: LendUp Loans, LLC (operating entity of LendUp Global, Inc.) ceased loan operations in January 2022. No successor
developer surface under this entity.
x-status-evidence: https://www.lendup.com/about/
x-status-verified: '2026-07-19'
x-do-not-attach:
- domain: lendup.com
reason: 'Now operated by LendUp LLC (8 The Green STE A, Dover, DE 19901), an unrelated loan-matching lead-generation business.
Its own site states: "This entity has no ownership, corporate, or operational relationship to the former LendUp Loans,
LLC (formerly Flurish, Inc.), LendUp Global, Inc., or their former executives." Wiring this domain into this profile would
misattribute a different company''s surfaces.'
verified: '2026-07-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Lending
- Consumer Credit
- Defunct
- Historical
tags_raw:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Lending
- Consumer Credit
- Defunct
- Historical
- Financial-Services
apis: []
common: []
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
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