Lula

aid: lula
name: Lula
description: 'Lula Technologies, Inc. was a Miami, Florida insurance-infrastructure company founded by twin brothers Matthew
  Vega-Sanz (CEO) and Michael Vega-Sanz (President). It started as the car-sharing startup Lula Rides and pivoted during the
  COVID-19 pandemic into an API-first — widely described at the time as "Stripe-like" — insurance platform for small and mid-sized
  car rental, car-sharing, trucking and logistics fleet operators, bundling driver vetting and risk assessment, fraud detection,
  driver-history checks, episodic/on-demand policy issuance and claims handling behind a single API underwritten through licensed
  insurance partners. It raised an $18M Series A in July 2021 and a $35.5M Series B, and its public developer surface was
  a Postman documenter collection alongside a developer portal at www.lula.is/developers. In 2024 Lula divested its insurance
  division to Nantucket Capital Corp, a San Diego MGA, headcount fell from roughly 150 to about 19, and the founders sold
  the company. The domain lula.is has since left the company''s control — it now delegates to parkingcrew.net and serves a
  "This domain may be for sale!" holding page — the API host api.lula.is is gone, and the Postman collection returns 404.
  No public API surface remains. NOTE FOR FUTURE PASSES — the same founders later built a SEPARATE company, Gail (legal entity
  Nothing Technologies, Inc., meetgail.com), which does operate a live developer surface; Gail is not a rename of Lula and
  none of its artifacts may be attributed to this profile. Two other unrelated companies also trade as "Lula": Lula (lula.life,
  property maintenance) and Lula Commerce (lulacommerce.com, convenience retail). This profile is retained as a historical
  company record.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lula/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: No public API surface remains.
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
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
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-date: '2024'
x-acquired-note: Insurance division divested to Nantucket Capital Corp (San Diego MGA) in 2024; founders sold the company
  the same year. No single acquirer of the whole entity is publicly named.
x-website-status: parked-for-sale
x-former-domain: lula.is
tags:
- Company
- Insurance
- Insurtech
- Embedded Insurance
- Car Rental
- Car Sharing
- Fleet Management
- Risk Assessment
- Claims Management
- Logistics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/lula_stock/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://equityzen.com/company/lula/
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lula
x-pointer-liveness:
  checked: '2026-08-25'
  note: 'Every pointer above was fetched with a browser User-Agent on 2026-08-25. Forge Global and Crunchbase return 403 to
    our crawler — an ordinary bot challenge, not a dead page; both pages demonstrably exist and are indexed. EquityZen returns
    200. The original stub carried https://forgeglobal.com/lula_stock/ typed as `Website`; that is a secondary-market VENUE
    listing, not the company''s own site, so it has been retyped to SecondaryMarket. No `Website` pointer is emitted: lula.is
    is a parked for-sale page and pointing at it would assert a company site that no longer exists.'
  probes:
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/lula_stock/
    status: 403
    verdict: bot-challenge
  - url: https://equityzen.com/company/lula/
    status: 200
    verdict: live
  - url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lula
    status: 403
    verdict: bot-challenge
  - url: http://lula.is/
    status: 410
    verdict: parked-for-sale
  - url: https://lula.is/
    status: 0
    verdict: tls-handshake-fails
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Lula Technologies divested its insurance division to Nantucket Capital Corp and was sold by its founders in 2024,
    and its domain has since been released rather than redirected — lula.is now delegates to ns1/ns2.parkingcrew.net, serves
    no TLS certificate at all (the HTTPS handshake fails outright), returns 410 Gone on the HTTP apex, and answers every deeper
    path with one identical 32KB "This domain may be for sale!" holding page, so all 21 /.well-known/ and 27 contract-discovery
    probes are catch-all HTML rather than documents; the historical developer portal at www.lula.is/developers was last archived
    on 2022-12-07 and the Postman collection that was Lula's public API reference now returns 404.
  evidence:
  - url: http://lula.is/
    status: 410
  - url: http://api.lula.is/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: http://lula.is/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/6602648/TzRRCTzg
    status: 404
  - url: https://equityzen.com/company/lula/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-25'