aid: amiato
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/amiato.png
name: Amiato
description: 'Amiato was a Palo Alto, California big-data startup founded in 2011 by
  Nathan Binkert and Mehul A. Shah, originally incubated at Y Combinator in 2012 under
  the name Nou Data. Amiato built a real-time analytics pipeline around its Schema-lift
  technology, which extracted records from NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Couchbase,
  automatically inferred and transformed them into a relational schema, and loaded them
  continuously into Amazon Redshift so that unstructured operational data could be queried
  by conventional business-intelligence tools. The company raised roughly $2M from investors
  including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Data Collective (DCVC)
  and angel Bobby Yazdani. Amazon Web Services quietly acquired Amiato in May 2014 (reported
  publicly in April 2015) in what was widely characterized as a talent acquisition; most
  of the team joined Amazon''s database and Redshift product groups and Amiato ceased
  independent operations. The company is defunct: the amiato.com domain no longer resolves
  and there is no surviving public API, developer portal, documentation, or SDK surface
  to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amiato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Y Combinator
- Ignition Partners
- Data Collective
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: Amazon Web Services
x-acquired-date: '2014-05'
x-former-name: Nou Data
x-founded: '2011'
x-headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Big Data
- Data Integration
- ETL
- Business Intelligence
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Analytics
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Searched and probed; company is defunct (acquired by AWS May 2014), amiato.com
    does not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN), no API surface exists. Identity fields enriched
    from verified public sources; no artifacts fabricated.