# Loku

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/loku/  
**Website:** https://loku.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Travel, Local, Recommendations, Acquired, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/loku/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.