aid: bump
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/bump.png
name: Bump
description: 'Bump Technologies was a Mountain View, California mobile software company
  (2008-2014) behind Bump, an iOS and Android app that let two people exchange contacts,
  photos and files by physically bumping their phones together. Bump servers correlated
  accelerometer, location and network signals from two handsets to match the pair,
  then brokered the transfer. The company published a first-party Bump API and iOS/Android
  SDKs so third-party apps could embed the same proximity-matching handshake. Backed
  by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and a $16M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz in
  January 2011, Bump was acquired by Google in September 2013 and both the app and
  its developer API were discontinued on January 31, 2014. The company''s bu.mp domain
  still serves its shutdown notice and the archived SDK repositories remain public
  under the bumptech GitHub organization; there is no live API surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bump/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Google (2013-09-16); app and developer API discontinued
  2014-01-31. No live API surface.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Mobile
- File Sharing
- Data Transfer
- Proximity
- SDK
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  name: Bump (shutdown notice)
  url: http://bu.mp/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: Bump Technologies on GitHub
  url: https://github.com/bumptech
- type: Packages
  name: Bump SDKs (archived)
  url: packages/bump-packages.yml
- type: SourceCode
  name: Bump API iOS SDK (archived)
  url: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios
- type: SourceCode
  name: Bump API Android SDK (archived)
  url: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Bump lifecycle and shutdown record
  url: lifecycle/bump-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Bump domain security probe
  url: security/bump-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: Bump llms.txt
  url: llms/bump-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io