URX was a San Francisco mobile deep-linking and app-search startup that connected mobile users to relevant in-app commerce experiences. Backed by roughly $15M from investors including GV (Google Ventures) and CyberAgent, it was acquired by Pinterest in May 2016 and its product was wound down. The urx.com domain is now parked and listed for sale on a domain marketplace, and no API, developer portal, or public developer artifacts remain. Profiled in the API Evangelist network as a historical GV portfolio company.
URX * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Deep Linking, Mobile, and Advertising.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
Machine-Readable Auth+10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency+9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics+8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
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its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted:
not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted.
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aid: urx
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- url: https://urx.com
status: 302
note: declared website redirects to atom.com — a domain sales/parking service, so the domain has lapsed rather than moved
to an acquirer (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/urx.png
name: URX *
description: URX was a San Francisco mobile deep-linking and app-search startup that connected mobile users to relevant in-app
commerce experiences. Backed by roughly $15M from investors including GV (Google Ventures) and CyberAgent, it was acquired
by Pinterest in May 2016 and its product was wound down. The urx.com domain is now parked and listed for sale on a domain
marketplace, and no API, developer portal, or public developer artifacts remain. Profiled in the API Evangelist network
as a historical GV portfolio company.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/urx/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-21'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
acquired-by: Pinterest
acquired: 2016-05
domain-status: parked-for-sale
domain-note: urx.com responds 302 to a domain-marketplace listing (atom.com/name/URX), verified 2026-07-21
evidence:
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/pinterest-acquires-mobile-ad-startup-urx-1462298027
- https://fortune.com/2016/05/03/pinterest-urx-acquisition/
- https://globalventuring.com/blog/2016/05/06/urx-links-itself-to-pinterest/
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Deep Linking
- Mobile
- Advertising
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://urx.com
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