aid: bebop
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/bebop.png
name: Bebop
description: Bebop (bebop.co) was a stealth-mode enterprise software startup founded by
  Diane Greene, co-founder and former CEO of VMware, building a development platform intended
  to make it easier to build and maintain enterprise applications. The company never shipped
  a public product, developer portal, or API, and was acquired by Google on November 19, 2015
  for approximately $380 million, at which point Diane Greene was named head of Google's newly
  consolidated enterprise cloud business (Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps).
  The acquired technology was later folded into Google Hire, which Google shut down in 2019.
  Bebop is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical a16z portfolio record; it has
  no live domain, no public API surface, and no developer artifacts to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bebop/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Google
x-acquired-date: '2015-11-19'
x-acquisition-amount-usd: 380000000
x-founders:
- Diane Greene
x-former-domain: bebop.co
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Acquired
- Enterprise Software
- Application Development
- Cloud
- Historical
- No API
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Company acquired by Google 2015; bebop.co does not resolve (no A record, SPF
    "v=spf1 -all", Google Domains NS). No developer portal, docs, GitHub org, or API
    surface exists to enrich. github.com/bebop (bebop.bio, synthetic biology) and
    github.com/bebop-inc (Tokyo) are unrelated companies.