aid: adku
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/adku.png
name: Adku
description: Adku was a big-data e-commerce personalization startup founded around 2010 by former
  Googlers (CEO Ajit Varma with co-founders Carlos Whitt and Jesse Shieh), and an AngelPad alumnus.
  It built machine-learning technology to personalize the online shopping experience for visitors to
  e-commerce sites such as eBay, Amazon, and Zappos. Backed by Battery Ventures, Greylock Partners,
  and True Ventures (roughly $1.49M raised), Adku was acquired by Groupon in February 2012 and is no
  longer an operating, independent company. It has no public developer portal, API, or documentation
  surface; this record is retained in the API Evangelist network as a Battery Ventures portfolio lead
  for historical/enrichment tracking only.
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: groupon
x-acquired-date: '2012-02-06'
x-enrichment-note: Defunct/acquired company (Groupon, 2012). Domain adku.com does not resolve; no live
  website, API, OpenAPI, docs, or well-known surface exists. No provider artifacts could be produced
  without fabrication. Identity enriched from public records only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adku/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
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Personalization
- Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Advertising
- Acquired
- Battery Ventures Portfolio
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence