Propagate (Propagate Brands) is an e-commerce accelerator and equity syndication platform founded by JD Jernigan and backed by 500 Global. It partners with early-stage direct-to-consumer brands selling on Shopify and Amazon — typically those under $1M in annual revenue and overlooked by larger aggregators — providing working capital plus growth marketing, branding, data collection, customer service, and supply-chain support to help them scale and reach acquisition-ready exits. It simultaneously lets individual investors take equity stakes in these growing private commerce brands to earn passive income. Propagate operates as a services-and-investment business rather than a software company and publishes no public developer API, SDK, or technical platform surface. As of August 2026 its website is also no longer reachable — propagatebrands.com and its www host resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort the TLS handshake, and archived captures show the site returning 403/404 since mid-2024 and a parked lander page by August 2025.
Propagate is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Direct to Consumer, Shopify, and Accelerator.
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this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
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source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/propagate.png
name: Propagate
description: Propagate (Propagate Brands) is an e-commerce accelerator and equity syndication platform founded by JD Jernigan
and backed by 500 Global. It partners with early-stage direct-to-consumer brands selling on Shopify and Amazon — typically
those under $1M in annual revenue and overlooked by larger aggregators — providing working capital plus growth marketing,
branding, data collection, customer service, and supply-chain support to help them scale and reach acquisition-ready exits.
It simultaneously lets individual investors take equity stakes in these growing private commerce brands to earn passive
income. Propagate operates as a services-and-investment business rather than a software company and publishes no public
developer API, SDK, or technical platform surface. As of August 2026 its website is also no longer reachable — propagatebrands.com
and its www host resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort the TLS handshake, and archived captures show the site returning
403/404 since mid-2024 and a parked lander page by August 2025.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/propagate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Direct to Consumer
- Shopify
- Accelerator
- Investment
- Growth Marketing
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- Company
- E-Commerce
- Direct-to-Consumer
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- Accelerator
- Investment
- Growth Marketing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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x-enrichment:
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status: minimal
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pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: propagatebrands.com and www.propagatebrands.com still resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort every TLS handshake
with an internal error, so not one HTTP response came back — and the Wayback record shows the site 403/404ing since July
2024 and serving a 545-byte parked lander by August 2025, with no api/app/docs/developers subdomain, GitHub org, or package-registry
presence anywhere.
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- url: https://www.propagatebrands.com/
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- url: http://propagatebrands.com/
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- url: https://propagatebrands.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
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- url: http://web.archive.org/web/20250806030036/http://propagatebrands.com/
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-13'
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