Vurb

Vurb was a mobile search and discovery startup founded in 2011 by Bobby Lo, backed by DCVC and Redpoint Ventures. Its card-based mobile app (Vurb Cards, Decks) unified search across partners like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and Netflix, and won TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014. Snap Inc. (Snapchat) acquired Vurb in August 2016 for roughly $110M+, and the product was subsequently taken offline and removed from app stores. vurb.com now serves only a shutdown notice. There is no public API, developer portal, or documentation surface; this profile is retained as a network record of a defunct, acquired company with no API surface to enrich.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 5.5/100 · 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 5.5 / 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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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vurb
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
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  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Vurb
description: Vurb was a mobile search and discovery startup founded in 2011 by Bobby Lo, backed by DCVC and Redpoint Ventures.
  Its card-based mobile app (Vurb Cards, Decks) unified search across partners like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and Netflix, and
  won TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014. Snap Inc. (Snapchat) acquired Vurb in August 2016 for roughly $110M+, and the product was
  subsequently taken offline and removed from app stores. vurb.com now serves only a shutdown notice. There is no public API,
  developer portal, or documentation surface; this profile is retained as a network record of a defunct, acquired company
  with no API surface to enrich.
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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