aid: aviate
name: Aviate
description: 'Aviate was an "intelligent homescreen" launcher for Android, built by
  ThumbsUp Labs (founded 2011 by Paul Montoy-Wilson, William Choi, and Mark Daiss).
  The app reorganized a phone home screen contextually — surfacing apps, contacts,
  and information based on time, location, and activity. It raised a $1.8M seed round
  in May 2013 from Highland Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Freestyle Capital,
  and Draper Associates, and was acquired by Yahoo in January 2014. Yahoo discontinued
  the Aviate launcher on March 8, 2018. The company is defunct: it never shipped a
  public API, developer portal, or SDK, aviate.com is now a parked domain listed for
  sale, aviate.yahoo.com redirects to downloads.yahoo.com, and the ThumbsUp Labs GitHub
  organization has no public repositories.'
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/aviate.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aviate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail:
  founded: '2011'
  company: ThumbsUp Labs, Inc.
  seed_round: '2013-05-10'
  acquired_by: Yahoo
  acquired: '2014-01-07'
  product_discontinued: '2018-03-08'
  api_surface: none
  evidence:
  - url: https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/10/market-for-apperating-systems-heats-up-as-highland-capital-andreesen-horowitz-others-put-1-8m-into-aviate-an-intelligent-homescreen-for-android/
    note: $1.8M seed round including Andreessen Horowitz
  - url: https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/yahoo-announces-that-it-has-acquired-intelligent-homescreen-startup-aviate/
    note: Yahoo acquisition announcement
  - url: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/02/yahoo-ends-support-aviate-launcher-march-8/
    note: Yahoo ends support for Aviate Launcher, March 8 2018
  probes:
  - {url: 'https://aviate.com/', status: 307, note: redirects to afternic.com domain-for-sale
      parking}
  - {url: 'https://aviate.yahoo.com/', status: 301, note: redirects to downloads.yahoo.com}
  - {url: 'https://developer.aviate.com/', status: 0, note: does not resolve}
  - {url: 'https://api.aviate.com/', status: 0, note: does not resolve}
  - {url: 'https://www.getaviate.com/', status: 0, note: does not resolve}
  - {url: 'https://api.github.com/users/thumbsuplabs', status: 200, note: 'org exists,
      0 public repositories'}
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Mobile
- Android
- Consumer Applications
- Contextual Computing
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: ThumbsUp Labs GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/ThumbsUpLabs
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