Tomfoolery

Tomfoolery, Inc. was a San Francisco mobile-app lab founded in 2012 by Sol Lipman (Chief Product Officer) and Kakul Srivastava (CEO), a team of ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL executives building consumer-grade, mobile-first collaboration apps for the enterprise. Its debut product was Anchor, a real-time conversation platform meant to be a central hub for work discussions, followed by an app called Action. The company raised roughly $1.7M (investors included Andreessen Horowitz) before being acquired by Yahoo in January 2014, after which the Anchor app was shut down. Tomfoolery is now a defunct/deadpooled company with no live website, developer portal, or public API surface. It was surfaced as a VC portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub; enrichment confirms there is no API to profile.

Tomfoolery is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Collaboration, Messaging, and Mobile.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEnterpriseCollaborationMessagingMobileProductivityDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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)

aid: tomfoolery
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  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/tomfoolery.png
name: Tomfoolery
description: Tomfoolery, Inc. was a San Francisco mobile-app lab founded in 2012 by Sol Lipman (Chief Product Officer) and
  Kakul Srivastava (CEO), a team of ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL executives building consumer-grade, mobile-first collaboration apps
  for the enterprise. Its debut product was Anchor, a real-time conversation platform meant to be a central hub for work discussions,
  followed by an app called Action. The company raised roughly $1.7M (investors included Andreessen Horowitz) before being
  acquired by Yahoo in January 2014, after which the Anchor app was shut down. Tomfoolery is now a defunct/deadpooled company
  with no live website, developer portal, or public API surface. It was surfaced as a VC portfolio company and added to the
  API Evangelist network as a stub; enrichment confirms there is no API to profile.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tomfoolery/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Yahoo in January 2014; Anchor app shut down. Company deadpooled.
x-founded: '2012'
x-headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
x-founders:
- Sol Lipman
- Kakul Srivastava
x-products:
- Anchor
- Action
x-acquired-by: Yahoo
x-acquired-date: 2014-01
x-api-surface: none
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Collaboration
- Messaging
- Mobile
- Productivity
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
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