OneRoom

OneRoom was an online-learning startup founded in 2014 in San Francisco by Scott Forman and Jeff Kolesky and backed by Bloomberg Beta's 2013 fund with a roughly $750K seed round. It operated joinoneroom.com as a marketplace of live, video-based writing courses (fiction, non-fiction, playwriting, poetry, and prose) taught in intimate online classrooms featuring break-outs, head-to-head debates, content sharing, and co-annotation. The company appears defunct — co-founder Jeff Kolesky departed in 2016, and its domain now 302-redirects to a domain-sale listing (hugedomains.com). No product, developer portal, documentation, or public API surface remains. This profile records the honest identity so the API Evangelist network does not re-research a dead portfolio lead.

OneRoom is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, EdTech, Online Learning, Writing, and Video Conferencing.

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0.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyEdTechOnline LearningWritingVideo ConferencingMarketplaceSeed StageBloomberg Beta PortfolioDefunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 0.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: oneroom
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/oneroom.png
name: OneRoom
description: OneRoom was an online-learning startup founded in 2014 in San Francisco by Scott Forman and Jeff Kolesky and
  backed by Bloomberg Beta's 2013 fund with a roughly $750K seed round. It operated joinoneroom.com as a marketplace of live,
  video-based writing courses (fiction, non-fiction, playwriting, poetry, and prose) taught in intimate online classrooms
  featuring break-outs, head-to-head debates, content sharing, and co-annotation. The company appears defunct — co-founder
  Jeff Kolesky departed in 2016, and its domain now 302-redirects to a domain-sale listing (hugedomains.com). No product,
  developer portal, documentation, or public API surface remains. This profile records the honest identity so the API Evangelist
  network does not re-research a dead portfolio lead.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oneroom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bloomberg-beta
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-founders:
- Scott Forman
- Jeff Kolesky
x-former-domain: joinoneroom.com
x-website-status: domain-for-sale (302 -> www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=joinoneroom.com)
x-identity-confirmed: '2026-07-20'
x-identity-source: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/2%20-%20In%20our%20portfolio.md
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Writing
- Video Conferencing
- Marketplace
- Seed Stage
- Bloomberg Beta Portfolio
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1