aid: flutter
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/flutter.png
name: Flutter
description: >-
  Flutter was an early-stage gesture-recognition startup founded in 2010 by Mehul
  Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal and based in California. Its consumer app used
  computer-vision hand-gesture recognition over a built-in webcam to control media
  players such as iTunes, Spotify, VLC, and QuickTime; it launched in 2012, reached
  number one free app in dozens of countries on the Mac App Store, and was named by
  Apple among the best free apps of 2012. The company raised early funding from Y
  Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and NEA before Google acquired it on
  October 2, 2013, after which the product was discontinued. It has no active
  developer program, public API, or maintained developer portal today. This profile
  is retained as a historical portfolio-lead record; there is no live provider
  surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flutter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Y Combinator
- NEA
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Google on 2013-10-02; product discontinued, no active API surface.
x-acquired-by: Google
x-acquired-date: '2013-10-02'
x-founded: '2010'
x-founders:
- Mehul Nariyawala
- Navneet Dalal
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Gesture Recognition
- Computer Vision
- Consumer Software
- Media Control
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutter_(company)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence