Wavii

Wavii was a Seattle-based startup founded in 2008 by Adrian Aoun that built a news-summarization app using natural-language-processing and machine-learning to convert web content (news articles and blogs) into short structured story summaries. Backed by Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures and Kapor Capital, Wavii was acquired by Google in April 2013 (reported at over $30M) and immediately shut down its consumer service, with the team moving to Google to work on natural-language products. The company is defunct and operates no public product or API. This profile was surfaced as a Battery Ventures portfolio company; the enrichment pass confirmed no live developer surface exists.

Wavii is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Acquired, News Summarization, and Natural Language Processing.

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Company Defunct AcquiredNews SummarizationNatural Language Processing Machine-Learning

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: wavii
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: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/wavii.png
name: Wavii
description: Wavii was a Seattle-based startup founded in 2008 by Adrian Aoun that built a news-summarization app using natural-language-processing
  and machine-learning to convert web content (news articles and blogs) into short structured story summaries. Backed by Battery
  Ventures, Felicis Ventures and Kapor Capital, Wavii was acquired by Google in April 2013 (reported at over $30M) and immediately
  shut down its consumer service, with the team moving to Google to work on natural-language products. The company is defunct
  and operates no public product or API. This profile was surfaced as a Battery Ventures portfolio company; the enrichment
  pass confirmed no live developer surface exists.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wavii/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: google
x-acquired-date: 2013-04
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- News Summarization
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine-Learning
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- News Summarization
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavii
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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