aid: danger
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/danger.png
name: Danger
description: 'Danger, Inc. was a Palo Alto, California mobile computing company founded
  on December 9, 1999 by Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson, all former Apple,
  WebTV, and Philips engineers. Danger built the Danger Hiptop, sold in the United
  States as the T-Mobile Sidekick, an early client-server ("cloud") smartphone whose
  downloadable application catalog prefigured the app stores later shipped by Android
  and iOS. Andy Rubin left Danger in 2003 to found Android. Microsoft acquired Danger
  on February 11, 2008 for a price reported at roughly $500 million and folded the
  team into "Project Pink," which shipped as the short-lived Microsoft Kin. Most former
  Danger staff had left Microsoft by October 2009 and the company was wound down by
  approximately 2011. Danger was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a historic
  Redpoint Ventures portfolio holding. It is defunct: the danger.com domain no longer
  resolves and there is no developer portal, documentation, or API surface to catalog.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/danger/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
  founded: '1999-12-09'
  acquired_by: Microsoft
  acquired_date: '2008-02-11'
  wound_down: '2011'
  domain: danger.com
  domain_status: NXDOMAIN
  evidence:
  - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Inc.
    kind: encyclopedia
    note: founding, products, Microsoft acquisition, wind-down
  - source: dig A danger.com
    kind: dns-probe
    note: no A record; domain does not resolve
  note: 'Unrelated live namesakes checked and excluded: danger.co (parked GoDaddy for-sale
    page), danger.systems (open-source Danger CI code-review bot, not VC-backed).'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Mobile
- Smartphones
- Consumer Electronics
- Acquired
- Redpoint Ventures
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1