aid: bebop-sensors
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
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  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  source: []
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bebop-sensors.png
name: BeBop Sensors
description: BeBop Sensors was a Berkeley, California smart-fabric sensor company founded in 2014 that
  designed and manufactured flexible, fabric-based pressure and touch sensors for OEMs across robotics,
  medical devices, automotive interiors, and virtual reality. Its best known products were haptic VR
  gloves and "intelligent sensing technology" surfaces that turned ordinary materials into multi-touch,
  pressure-sensitive inputs. The company raised a $10M+ Series A led by Bullpen Capital and shipped
  custom sensor hardware paired with bespoke firmware and integration software for enterprise customers.
  BeBop sold engineered hardware under contract rather than a self-serve developer product, and never
  published a public API, developer portal, or SDK. The company is no longer operating and its former
  domain has been repurposed by an unrelated third party.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bebop-sensors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bullpen-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment-status: dead-domain
x-enrichment-note: 'Re-verified 2026-07-20; the 2026-07-18 finding stands. The registered
  domain bebopsensors.com / www.bebopsensors.com no longer belongs to the BeBop Sensors
  smart-fabric sensor company: it returns HTTP 200 serving an unrelated French-language
  Canadian online casino affiliate WordPress site (title "Casino en ligne Canada | Top
  10 meilleurs casinos payants en 2026", content dated 2026-03 to 2026-06). /api,
  /developer, /docs, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt all 404. The Website
  pointer to that domain was REMOVED this pass so the network does not attribute casino
  content to this company; the domain of record is retained here in the note only.
  Additional 2026-07-20 probes: GitHub org BeBopSensors (created 2016-01-31) exists but
  has 0 public repositories; no npm or PyPI packages under the name; getbebop.com is a
  parked HugeDomains for-sale listing. The last Wayback capture of the real company site
  is 2023-03-26, and the 2022-06-01 capture describes APIs only as part of bespoke
  custom-engineering engagements ("we can partner with you to create custom hardware and
  software, including APIs"), never as a public product. Note on provenance: several
  aggregator pages claim Sensata Technologies acquired BeBop in January 2022, but that
  claim is NOT corroborated by any primary source - the company''s own archived site from
  June 2022 contains zero mentions of Sensata, and the Sensata newsroom/SEC results
  surfaced are about a different acquisition (Custom Sensors & Technologies). The
  acquisition is therefore recorded as unverified and deliberately not asserted as fact.
  No API, SDK, docs, developer portal, or event surface exists to harvest; no artifacts
  were generated because doing so would require fabrication.'
tags:
- Company
- Haptics
- Sensors
- Wearables
- Virtual Reality
- Smart Fabric
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
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  date: '2026-07-20'
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