The Cru (now branded "The Cru Empowered by Luminary") is a membership community founded by Tiffany Dufu that matches women and allies into small peer-coaching accountability circles ("Crus") of 6-8 members who meet in monthly 90-minute gatherings to advance their personal and professional goals. It was acquired by Luminary, a New York City based professional community and coworking organization, and the thecru.com site now redirects to weareluminary.com/luminary-crus. This is a consumer community and coaching business, not a technical platform - it publishes no public API, developer portal, or SDK surface.
The Cru is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Community, Women in Leadership, Professional Development, and Coaching.
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several others — scorable at all.
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aid: the-cru
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- url: https://www.thecru.com/
status: 302
note: declared website redirects to https://www.weareluminary.com/luminary-crus — a different registrable domain (thecru.com
-> weareluminary.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/the-cru.png
name: The Cru
description: The Cru (now branded "The Cru Empowered by Luminary") is a membership community founded by Tiffany Dufu that
matches women and allies into small peer-coaching accountability circles ("Crus") of 6-8 members who meet in monthly 90-minute
gatherings to advance their personal and professional goals. It was acquired by Luminary, a New York City based professional
community and coworking organization, and the thecru.com site now redirects to weareluminary.com/luminary-crus. This is
a consumer community and coaching business, not a technical platform - it publishes no public API, developer portal, or
SDK surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-cru/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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Community
- Women in Leadership
- Professional Development
- Coaching
- Membership
- Networking
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/luminary/
name: Luminary
x-relationship: acquired
x-evidence: It was acquired by Luminary, a New York City based professional community and coworking organization, and the
thecru.
- type: Website
url: https://www.thecru.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.weareluminary.com/privacy
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/the-cru-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-21'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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