Loku

Loku was a travel and local-experiences recommendation startup, founded around 2010, that provided personalized recommendations from local experts. The company raised roughly $2.1M in seed funding and was acquired by Groupon in July 2013, after which the product was shut down. Loku is no longer an operating company. Its former domain, loku.com, no longer hosts a product and now redirects to an Afternic "domain for sale" listing. This profile was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio lead; enrichment confirms there is no live API, developer portal, documentation, or product surface to catalog.

Loku is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Travel, Local, Recommendations, and Acquired.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyTravelLocalRecommendationsAcquiredDefunct

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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)

aid: loku
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  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/loku.png
name: Loku
description: Loku was a travel and local-experiences recommendation startup, founded around 2010, that provided personalized
  recommendations from local experts. The company raised roughly $2.1M in seed funding and was acquired by Groupon in July
  2013, after which the product was shut down. Loku is no longer an operating company. Its former domain, loku.com, no longer
  hosts a product and now redirects to an Afternic "domain for sale" listing. This profile was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio
  lead; enrichment confirms there is no live API, developer portal, documentation, or product surface to catalog.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: acquired-by-groupon-2013
x-acquired-by: Groupon
x-acquired-date: '2013-07-01'
x-domain-status: for-sale
x-enrichment-finding: No API surface. Company defunct (acquired by Groupon 2013); loku.com redirects to an Afternic domain-for-sale
  page. No developer, API, docs, SDK, or product content exists to enrich.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- Local
- Recommendations
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://loku.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1