uNow (UniversityNow)

UniversityNow, Inc. (uNow) was a San Francisco-based higher-education startup founded in 2011 and backed by 500 Startups (500 Global) that built competency-based, self-paced online degree programs for working adults. It operated New Charter University, acquired Patten University in 2012, and its learning platform was sold to Penn Foster Education Group in 2016 and National University System in 2018. The company is defunct and unow.com now redirects to a dead page; it published no public API.

uNow (UniversityNow) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, Higher Education, EdTech, and Online Learning.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEducationHigher EducationEdTechOnline LearningCompetency-Based EducationDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: uNow (UniversityNow)
description: UniversityNow, Inc. (uNow) was a San Francisco-based higher-education startup founded in 2011 and backed by 500
  Startups (500 Global) that built competency-based, self-paced online degree programs for working adults. It operated New
  Charter University, acquired Patten University in 2012, and its learning platform was sold to Penn Foster Education Group
  in 2016 and National University System in 2018. The company is defunct and unow.com now redirects to a dead page; it published
  no public API.
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- Higher Education
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Competency-Based Education
- Defunct
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- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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