Taxa

Taxa Technologies is a San Francisco and Tokyo synthetic-biology startup engineering the human skin microbiome. Its debut consumer product is a shelf-stable probiotic deodorant cream: a single application of Taxa Probiotics (25.4 billion CFUs in a base of water, mango butter, and sunflower extract) lasts one week by swapping out the skin microbes responsible for body odor, with a line focused on Wakiga (severe underarm odor). The company frames the skin microbiome as a platform whose microbes drive body odor, UV absorption, and mosquito attraction. Backed by Matrix Partners, Taxa currently runs a product waitlist and publishes a consumer marketing site with People, Science, Terms, and Privacy pages, but no public API, developer documentation, or SDKs.

Taxa is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and Microbiome.

Taxa’s developer surface includes support and 4 more developer resources.

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10.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Frontier Biotechnology Synthetic Biology Microbiome Skincare Consumer Health ProbioticsDeodorant

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 10.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 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

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: taxa
name: Taxa
description: 'Taxa Technologies is a San Francisco and Tokyo synthetic-biology startup engineering the human skin microbiome.
  Its debut consumer product is a shelf-stable probiotic deodorant cream: a single application of Taxa Probiotics (25.4 billion
  CFUs in a base of water, mango butter, and sunflower extract) lasts one week by swapping out the skin microbes responsible
  for body odor, with a line focused on Wakiga (severe underarm odor). The company frames the skin microbiome as a platform
  whose microbes drive body odor, UV absorption, and mosquito attraction. Backed by Matrix Partners, Taxa currently runs a
  product waitlist and publishes a consumer marketing site with People, Science, Terms, and Privacy pages, but no public API,
  developer documentation, or SDKs.'
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x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65b87dec4ea2d21f283d48be/6949e920ae33e3df2c750176_256.png
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
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- Biotechnology
- Synthetic Biology
- Microbiome
- Skincare
- Consumer Health
- Probiotics
- Deodorant
tags_raw:
- Company
- Frontier
- Biotechnology
- Synthetic Biology
- Microbiome
- Skin Care
- Consumer Health
- Probiotics
- Deodorant
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.taxatech.com
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/taxa-domain-security.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.taxatech.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.taxatech.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: mailto:hello@taxatech.com
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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