aid: bloomsbury
name: Bloomsbury
description: >-
  Bloomsbury AI was a London-based natural-language-processing startup, backed
  by Seedcamp, that built Cape — an API making it easy to build software that
  answers questions about the contents of documents (machine reading /
  document question answering). Bloomsbury AI was acquired by Facebook in 2018;
  the hosted Cape API is terminated and bloomsbury.ai now serves only a
  farewell page. The team open sourced the Cape stack (web services, document
  QA, machine reader, and clients) under the bloomsburyai GitHub organization,
  which remains publicly available as archival source. This API Evangelist
  profile preserves that identity and the open-source footprint.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomsbury/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/35221555
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Question Answering
- Machine Reading
- Document Processing
- Open Source
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomsbury-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomsbury-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomsbury-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomsbury-packages.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomsburyai
- type: SourceCode
  name: Cape (open source)
  url: https://github.com/bloomsburyai/cape-webservices
- type: Website
  url: http://bloomsbury.ai
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence