# Nantero

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nantero/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Nantero, Inc. was a Woburn, Massachusetts nanotechnology company founded in 2001 by Greg Schmergel, Thomas Rueckes and Brent Segal to commercialize NRAM, a high-density non-volatile random-access memory that stores bits in the physical position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a conventional CMOS substrate. Its business was semiconductor intellectual-property licensing, not software: it raised more than $40 million through a Schlumberger-backed Series D in 2013 and a further ~$31.5 million Series E in 2015 from investors including Charles River Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, licensed NRAM to Fujitsu Semiconductor in 2016, granted Lockheed Martin an exclusive government-applications license in 2008, and collaborated with imec and Nano-C, but shipped its technology to foundry partners as process IP and test wafers rather than as any product a developer could call. Nantero ceased operations in mid-to-late 2024; its assets were partially acquired by Micron Technology and the remainder sold at auction. It never published a developer portal, API, SDK, or machine-readable specification of any kind, and the nantero.com domain has since been re-registered by an unrelated party. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Semiconductors, Memory, Nanotechnology, Hardware, Intellectual Property, Carbon Nanotubes

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