PiCloud

PiCloud was a cloud-computing startup founded in 2009 that offered a pay-as-you-go, serverless platform for running Python workloads across public (AWS) and private clouds without provisioning, configuring, or managing virtual servers — popular for batch processing, high-performance computing, and scientific computing. It raised a seed round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Kleiner Perkins, Plug and Play, and Greylock. The team was acquired by Dropbox in November 2013 and the PiCloud service was shut down on February 25, 2014 (its platform lived on briefly as the open-source Multyvac project). The picloud.com domain is now parked, and there is no live API, developer portal, or documentation to enrich.

PiCloud is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud Computing, Serverless, High Performance Computing, and Batch Processing.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyCloud ComputingServerlessHigh Performance ComputingBatch ProcessingPythonDefunctAcquired

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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)

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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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name: PiCloud
description: PiCloud was a cloud-computing startup founded in 2009 that offered a pay-as-you-go, serverless platform for running
  Python workloads across public (AWS) and private clouds without provisioning, configuring, or managing virtual servers —
  popular for batch processing, high-performance computing, and scientific computing. It raised a seed round from Andreessen
  Horowitz (a16z), Kleiner Perkins, Plug and Play, and Greylock. The team was acquired by Dropbox in November 2013 and the
  PiCloud service was shut down on February 25, 2014 (its platform lived on briefly as the open-source Multyvac project).
  The picloud.com domain is now parked, and there is no live API, developer portal, or documentation to enrich.
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- Kleiner Perkins
- Greylock
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x-acquired-date: '2013-11-17'
x-shutdown-date: '2014-02-25'
x-domain-status: parked
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- Cloud Computing
- Serverless
- High Performance Computing
- Batch Processing
- Python
- Defunct
- Acquired
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- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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