Upthere

Upthere was a consumer cloud-storage company backed by GV and founded by former Apple software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. Its Upthere Home app was designed as "one home" for photos, videos, music, and documents, stored directly in the Upthere cloud with fast search, private sharing, and shared "Loops". Western Digital acquired Upthere in 2017 and later discontinued the service; upthere.com now 302-redirects every path to a retired Western Digital support notice. Upthere never published a public developer API, and no API surface remains — this profile records the company identity and the posture of the surviving domain.

Upthere is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Cloud Storage, File Sharing, and Photos.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyConsumerCloud StorageFile SharingPhotosMediaDefunctAcquired

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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 — 4/100 · 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Upthere Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
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LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: upthere
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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/upthere.png
name: Upthere
description: Upthere was a consumer cloud-storage company backed by GV and founded by former Apple software engineering chief
  Bertrand Serlet. Its Upthere Home app was designed as "one home" for photos, videos, music, and documents, stored directly
  in the Upthere cloud with fast search, private sharing, and shared "Loops". Western Digital acquired Upthere in 2017 and
  later discontinued the service; upthere.com now 302-redirects every path to a retired Western Digital support notice. Upthere
  never published a public developer API, and no API surface remains — this profile records the company identity and the posture
  of the surviving domain.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Cloud Storage
- File Sharing
- Photos
- Media
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://upthere.com
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/upthere-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/upthere-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/upthere-llms.txt
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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