Top Hat

Top Hat is an interactive learning platform for higher education, used by instructors and students at colleges and universities to run more engaging courses. It combines in-class polling, quizzes, attendance, and discussions with interactive digital textbooks and courseware, assessments and grading, and AI-powered teaching and study assistance, all running on students' own devices and integrating with campus LMS platforms. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Toronto, Top Hat is backed by Emergence Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Version One Ventures. Top Hat does not currently publish a public developer API or developer portal; this API Evangelist profile captures its public web, security, trust, and status surface.

Top Hat is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Edtech, Education, Higher Education, and Learning Management.

Top Hat’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, support, signup flow, and 11 more developer resources.

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24.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyEdtechEducationHigher EducationLearning ManagementStudent EngagementInteractive LearningCoursewareAssessment

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 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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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Top Hat Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Top Hat Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Top Hat Trust Center

ISO 27001, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security
Security
 Compliance
Compliance
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: top-hat
name: Top Hat
description: Top Hat is an interactive learning platform for higher education, used by instructors and students at colleges
  and universities to run more engaging courses. It combines in-class polling, quizzes, attendance, and discussions with interactive
  digital textbooks and courseware, assessments and grading, and AI-powered teaching and study assistance, all running on
  students' own devices and integrating with campus LMS platforms. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Toronto, Top Hat is
  backed by Emergence Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Version One Ventures. Top Hat does not currently
  publish a public developer API or developer portal; this API Evangelist profile captures its public web, security, trust,
  and status surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/top-hat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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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://tophat.com/wp-content/uploads/Top_Hat_meta_default.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- emergence-capital
- uncork-capital
- union-square-ventures
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Edtech
- Education
- Higher Education
- Learning Management
- Student Engagement
- Interactive Learning
- Courseware
- Assessment
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  url: https://tophat.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://tophat.com/blog/
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- type: Support
  url: https://support.tophat.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.tophat.com/register/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.tophat.com/login
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tophat
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tophat.com/company/legal/user-agreement/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tophat.com/company/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.tophat.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://tophat.com/company/security/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://tophat.com/company/security/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/top-hat-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/top-hat-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/top-hat-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
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