XCOM

XCOM (XCOM Technologies Inc.) was a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, backed by Battery Ventures and Matrix Partners. Level 3 Communications acquired the company in April 1998 in a stock-for-stock deal valued at roughly $165 million, using XCOM's proprietary technology to help build its competitive telecommunications network. The company is defunct as an independent entity and publishes no website, developer portal, or API surface; the xcom.com domain now belongs to the unrelated 2K Games XCOM video game franchise.

XCOM is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Telecommunications, CLEC, Networking, and Defunct.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyTelecommunicationsCLECNetworkingDefunctAcquired

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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 — 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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Source (apis.yml)

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  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/xcom.png
name: XCOM
description: XCOM (XCOM Technologies Inc.) was a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
  backed by Battery Ventures and Matrix Partners. Level 3 Communications acquired the company in April 1998 in a stock-for-stock
  deal valued at roughly $165 million, using XCOM's proprietary technology to help build its competitive telecommunications
  network. The company is defunct as an independent entity and publishes no website, developer portal, or API surface; the
  xcom.com domain now belongs to the unrelated 2K Games XCOM video game franchise.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-defunct
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: Level 3 Communications
x-acquired-date: 1998-04
x-identity-evidence:
- https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/ (listed as "XCOM *", exited investment)
- New York Times, 1998-04-07, "Level 3 Communications Adding Xcom Technologies"
- Wall Street Journal, "Level 3 Agrees to Acquire XCOM In $165 Million Bid"
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Company
- Telecommunications
- CLEC
- Networking
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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