# Alien Labs

> Alien Labs, Inc. was a San Francisco software startup (founders Cristian Strat, Mircea Pasoi, Liana Dumitru; seed investor Bloomberg Beta) behind Summify — a social news digest acquired by Twitter in January 2012 — and Memo, a Slack-native team wiki used by 8,000+ teams. Memo closed signups on 2018-01-16 and shut down on 2018-03-16, with most of the engineering team joining Coinbase. The company is defunct and publishes no API, SDK, or developer documentation.

Generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-07-19. Method: generated from apis.yml and repo artifacts.

## Status

- [Company status: defunct](lifecycle/alien-labs-lifecycle.yml): No live API surface, developer portal, status page, or versioning policy. Retained as a historical network record.

## APIs

None. Alien Labs never published a public API. Memo was a *consumer* of the Slack API (a Slack app), not an API provider.

## Artifacts

- [apis.yml](apis.yml): APIs.json 0.20 profile for Alien Labs.
- [Lifecycle](lifecycle/alien-labs-lifecycle.yml): Product timeline, shutdown and acquisition record, domain ownership observations, GitHub org inventory.

## Products (historical)

- [Memo](https://web.archive.org/web/20180401/https://memo.ai/): Slack-native team knowledge base — star a Slack message to save it as a note, rich-text/code-block editor, boards, search, auto-reminders, `/memo-find` slash command. Shut down 2018-03-16.
- [Summify](https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/twitter-acquires-summify/): Personalized social news digest over Twitter and Facebook. Acquired by Twitter 2012-01-19 and wound down.

## Code

- [GitHub organization (Memo.AI)](https://github.com/alien-labs): 17 public repositories, last updated 2022-04-11. Only three are first-party — 2010-era Summify embed plugins:
  - [drupal-summify](https://github.com/alien-labs/drupal-summify)
  - [vanilla-summify](https://github.com/alien-labs/vanilla-summify)
  - [vanilla2-summify](https://github.com/alien-labs/vanilla2-summify)

## Optional

- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alien-labs)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alien-labs)
- [Bloomberg Beta portfolio](https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/2%20-%20In%20our%20portfolio.md)

## Domain notes

The `memo.ai`, `alienlabs.io`, and `alienlabs.com` domains all resolve (HTTP 200) but none are controlled by Alien Labs today; `alienlabs.io` has no Wayback Machine history and is unrelated. Do not treat them as company properties.