Trace Data

Trace Data (tracedata.io) was a data-security startup founded by James Donelan that built a platform integrating data observability, privacy, and security to track when and where company data is accessed as it moves across APIs, SaaS, and cloud, backed by venture investors including Accel. The company appears defunct: its website has been offline since after April 2021, and the tracedata.io DNS zone is now served by Netskope nameservers. No public API, developer portal, documentation, SDKs, or GitHub surface remains.

Trace Data is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Big Data, Data Security, Data Observability, and Data Privacy.

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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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CompanyBig DataData SecurityData ObservabilityData PrivacySecurity

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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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Security Posture 1

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

Trace Data Domain Security

DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 WebsiteArchive
WebsiteArchive

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: trace-data
accessModel:
  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/trace-data.png
name: Trace Data
description: 'Trace Data (tracedata.io) was a data-security startup founded by James Donelan that built a platform integrating
  data observability, privacy, and security to track when and where company data is accessed as it moves across APIs, SaaS,
  and cloud, backed by venture investors including Accel. The company appears defunct: its website has been offline since
  after April 2021, and the tracedata.io DNS zone is now served by Netskope nameservers. No public API, developer portal,
  documentation, SDKs, or GitHub surface remains.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trace-data/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Big Data
- Data Security
- Data Observability
- Data Privacy
- Security
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://www.tracedata.io
- type: WebsiteArchive
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210421101044/https://www.tracedata.io/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trace-data-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trace-data-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1