Upwave

Upwave (formerly Survata) is the Brand Outcomes Measurement Platform — it brings science to top-of-funnel advertising by measuring Brand Lift, validating Brand Reach, and surfacing optimization insights for brand campaigns across CTV, digital, linear TV, audio, and social channels. Advertisers, agencies, and media platforms use Upwave dashboards and its Bayes AI layer to quantify how campaigns move awareness, favorability, consideration, and intent. Upwave is delivered as a SaaS application with a managed partner ecosystem of ad servers and DSPs, and does not publish a public developer portal or API documentation. It is a portfolio company of Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, and Initialized Capital.

Upwave is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise Saas, Advertising, Brand Analytics, and Brand Lift.

Upwave’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

15.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyEnterprise SaasAdvertisingBrand AnalyticsBrand LiftMeasurementMarket ResearchCTV

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 15.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 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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Security Posture 1

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

Upwave Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: upwave
name: Upwave
description: Upwave (formerly Survata) is the Brand Outcomes Measurement Platform — it brings science to top-of-funnel advertising
  by measuring Brand Lift, validating Brand Reach, and surfacing optimization insights for brand campaigns across CTV, digital,
  linear TV, audio, and social channels. Advertisers, agencies, and media platforms use Upwave dashboards and its Bayes AI
  layer to quantify how campaigns move awareness, favorability, consideration, and intent. Upwave is delivered as a SaaS application
  with a managed partner ecosystem of ad servers and DSPs, and does not publish a public developer portal or API documentation.
  It is a portfolio company of Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, and Initialized Capital.
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.upwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Frame-5.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/upwave/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise Saas
- Advertising
- Brand Analytics
- Brand Lift
- Measurement
- Market Research
- CTV
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Login
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- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.upwave.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.upwave.com/privacy-policy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
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- type: LLMsTxt
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