aid: circular
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/circular.png
name: Circular
description: >-
  Circular was a Spanish hiring community that connected tech recruiters with software
  developers, describing itself as a "Hiring Community for Tech Recruiters & Developers."
  It operated a referral-driven talent network in which recruiters shared vetted candidates
  they could not place themselves, and developers received job opportunities through that
  trusted pool rather than through cold outreach. The company was backed by Point Nine
  Capital and ran its candidate and recruiter landing experiences on a Next.js application
  served from circular.io and static.circular.io. Circular has since shut down and merged
  into Manfred (getmanfred.com), the largest tech community in Spain, with its own migration
  notice stating "Circular cierra sus puertas para integrarse en Manfred." The circular.io
  domain remains registered to Singular People Europe S.L. but has been fully undelegated,
  and Point Nine no longer lists Circular in its portfolio. Circular never published a public
  developer program, API, SDK, or specification. This profile is retained as a historical
  record; there is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/circular/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- point-nine
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-merged-into: manfred
x-successor-url: https://www.getmanfred.com/circular-to-manfred
x-shutdown-note: >-
  Circular announced it was closing to integrate into Manfred ("Circular cierra sus puertas
  para integrarse en Manfred: la mayor comunidad tech de Espana"). No exact shutdown date is
  published on the migration page. The last archived circular.io homepage returning HTTP 200
  is the Internet Archive capture of 2024-12-28, and that capture already carried a
  recruiterMigrationSignupFlagUrl pointing at getmanfred.com/circular-to-manfred, so the
  migration was already in progress by late December 2024.
x-domain-status: undelegated
x-domain-note: >-
  circular.io is still registered (IONOS SE, created 2012-10-27, registry expiry 2027-10-27,
  last updated 2025-10-23) to registrant organization SINGULAR PEOPLE EUROPE S.L (ES), the
  Spanish entity behind Manfred. The domain publishes no NS, A, MX, TXT, or SOA records and
  does not resolve, so there is no live host to probe and no Website pointer is wired.
x-headquarters: Spain
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Recruiting
- Hiring
- Talent
- Jobs
- Developers
- Community
- Spain
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1