MRU

MRU Holdings, Inc. (operating as MyRichUncle) was a specialty education-finance company founded in 2001 and headquartered in New York that became one of the largest private student-loan providers in the United States. It ceased offering student-loan products in September 2008 and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February 2009. Battery Ventures participated in the company's 2005 PIPE financing. The company is defunct and publishes no live website, public API, or developer surface.

MRU is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Student Loans, Education Finance, Fintech, and Financial Services.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyStudent LoansEducation FinanceFintechFinancial ServicesDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: mru
accessModel:
  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/mru.png
name: MRU
description: MRU Holdings, Inc. (operating as MyRichUncle) was a specialty education-finance company founded in 2001 and headquartered
  in New York that became one of the largest private student-loan providers in the United States. It ceased offering student-loan
  products in September 2008 and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February 2009. Battery Ventures participated in the company's
  2005 PIPE financing. The company is defunct and publishes no live website, public API, or developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mru/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-defunct: true
x-defunct-note: MRU Holdings / MyRichUncle filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February 2009 and ceased all operations; no live
  web, API, or developer surface exists (myrichuncle.com does not resolve; mruholdings.com is a parked/for-sale domain). False-positive
  lead from the VC-portfolio harvest.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Student Loans
- Education Finance
- Fintech
- Financial Services
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1