aid: carmera
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/carmera.png
name: Carmera *
description: 'CARMERA was a New York City based road-intelligence and HD mapping company that
  provided "change-as-a-service" map maintenance for autonomous driving, mobility-as-a-service
  and consumer navigation. It used consumer-grade cameras mounted on commercial fleet vehicles
  as crowdsourced visual probes to detect permanent road inventory change (signs, signals, lane
  markings) and temporary closure events (construction), then regenerated both HD and SD maps in
  near real time. Its commercial offering was described as detection APIs that identify
  map-impacting events plus vector APIs that deliver map updates, layered over a customer-supplied
  or CARMERA-supplied base map. The company was backed by GV and was acquired in July 2021 by
  Woven Planet (now Woven by Toyota), the advanced mobility subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation.
  Its APIs were sold under enterprise agreements and were never published as a public developer
  program; as of this enrichment pass the carmera.com domain no longer resolves and no developer
  portal, documentation, SDK, or API artifact survives.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carmera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-detail: Acquired July 2021 by Woven Planet (Woven by Toyota), the advanced mobility
  subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Primary domain carmera.com no longer resolves (NS
  delegated to a parking registrar, no A record); carmera.io and carmera.ai serve domain-lander
  pages unrelated to the original company.
x-acquired-by: woven-by-toyota
x-acquired-date: '2021-07'
x-acquirer-url: https://woven.toyota/en/
x-defunct-evidence:
- source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woven_Planet_Holdings
  note: Lists the July 2021 CARMERA acquisition by Woven by Toyota.
- source: http://web.archive.org/web/20211227182124/https://www.carmera.com/
  note: 'Final archived homepage carries the banner: "We''re excited to announce that we''ve been
    acquired by Woven Planet, the advanced mobility subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation!"'
- source: dns
  note: carmera.com returns no A record (probed 2026-07-20); api./docs./developer.carmera.com do
    not resolve.
x-no-api-surface: true
x-no-api-surface-reason: 'Enrichment probes found no live developer surface. Archived site
  (2021-12-27) exposed only about/, solutions/, fleets/, join/, privacy/, terms/ and a Medium blog
  — no developer portal, documentation, API reference, or spec. Registry probes: npm search
  "carmera" 0 results; pypi.org/pypi/carmera 404; no github.com/carmera organization (the handle is
  an unrelated personal account).'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Mapping
- HD Maps
- Geospatial
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Automotive
- Mobility
- Acquired
- Defunct
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