MindSumo

MindSumo was a crowdsourcing and open-innovation platform that connected companies with a community of students and young professionals to solve time-boxed business challenges for monetary prizes, generating ideas, market insight, and hiring leads. A GV (Google Ventures) portfolio company later acquired by MBO Partners, the platform distributed over $1.3M in rewards across 1,300+ challenges in 200+ countries before being permanently shut down after 13 years of operation. MindSumo never published a public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface; this profile records its identity and the residual public web properties (terms, privacy) that remain live.

MindSumo is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, and Challenges.

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11.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Mindsumo Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: mindsumo
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  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/mindsumo.png
name: MindSumo
description: MindSumo was a crowdsourcing and open-innovation platform that connected companies with a community of students
  and young professionals to solve time-boxed business challenges for monetary prizes, generating ideas, market insight, and
  hiring leads. A GV (Google Ventures) portfolio company later acquired by MBO Partners, the platform distributed over $1.3M
  in rewards across 1,300+ challenges in 200+ countries before being permanently shut down after 13 years of operation. MindSumo
  never published a public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface; this profile records its identity and the residual
  public web properties (terms, privacy) that remain live.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mindsumo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: platform-closed
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Crowdsourcing
- Open Innovation
- Challenges
- Talent
- Insights
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Website
  url: http://mindsumo.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.mindsumo.com/terms_of_use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.mindsumo.com/privacy_policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mindsumo-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1