aid: alien-labs
name: Alien Labs
description: >-
  Alien Labs, Inc. was a San Francisco software startup founded by Cristian Strat, Mircea Pasoi
  and Liana Dumitru, and a seed-stage portfolio company of Bloomberg Beta. Under the Alien Labs
  banner the team shipped Summify, a social news digest acquired by Twitter in January 2012, and
  later Memo — "the wiki that's always up-to-date" — a Slack-native team knowledge base that let
  8,000+ teams star a Slack message to save it as a searchable note, edit rich-text and code-block
  documents in context, and retrieve them with a /memo-find slash command. Memo stopped accepting
  new signups on January 16, 2018 and shut down on March 16, 2018; most of the engineering team
  joined Coinbase. The company operates no live developer portal, documentation, or public API
  today, and this profile is retained as a historical network record rather than an active API
  provider.
accessModel:
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233019?v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alien-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bloomberg-beta
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Memo shut down 2018-03-16; engineering team acquired by Coinbase. No live API surface.
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Slack Apps
- Knowledge Management
- Team Collaboration
- Note Taking
- Search
- Startups
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/alien-labs
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alien-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alien-labs-llms.txt
- type: CrunchBase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alien-labs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alien-labs
- type: Archive
  url: https://web.archive.org/web/20180401/https://memo.ai/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1