aid: apcera
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/apcera.png
name: Apcera
description: Apcera was an enterprise container and policy management platform founded in 2012 by
  Derek Collison, offering a "trusted cloud" runtime that layered fine-grained, policy-driven governance
  over workloads, containers, and services across hybrid infrastructure. Backed by a16z and DCVC, the
  company took a majority investment from Ericsson in 2015, was fully acquired by Ericsson in 2016, and
  the platform was subsequently wound down around 2017. The company is defunct - its primary domain
  (apcera.com) no longer resolves to a company site (it 301-redirects to an unrelated third party), and
  there is no live developer portal, API documentation, OpenAPI definition, or reachable API host to
  enrich. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio-lead record only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apcera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: apcera.com 301-redirects to techfamed.com (unrelated); no live API surface as of 2026-07-17
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Containers
- Cloud
- Policy
- Governance
- Infrastructure
- Defunct
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