aid: powder
name: Powder
description: >-
  Powder was a Paris-based gaming company, founded in 2018 and backed by a $14M Series A led by
  Serena with General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven, Bpifrance Digital Venture and Secocha
  Ventures. It built AI-powered clipping software for gamers and content creators: a low-resource
  Windows screen recorder plus on-device machine learning that detected highlight moments in
  gameplay recordings and long Twitch, YouTube and Kick streams and turned them into short
  vertical clips, AutoEdits and automontages, with per-title models for 40-plus games including
  Fortnite, Valorant, Counter-Strike 2 and League of Legends, and NPU-accelerated local inference
  on AMD XDNA hardware. It was distributed as an end-user desktop app through Steam, the Microsoft
  Store and Razer Cortex, on a free tier with a $9.99/month Powder Pro subscription. Powder
  published no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract. The company has
  since wound down: its own apex domain now redirects every path to a first-party notice stating
  the app is no longer updated or maintained and that all subscriptions have been cancelled.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/powder/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.powder.gg/_next/static/media/og.fecfbdd8.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: serena-portfolio
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: discontinued
x-status-source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p8TjN7bCRdOnhrD5DjG02pmoGi4ylsGKmdCS-YV4jrg/edit
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Gaming
- Video
- Artificial Intelligence
- Content Creation
- Streaming
- Media
- Desktop Application
- Discontinued
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/powder-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.powder.gg/
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Product lifecycle and end-of-life notice
  url: lifecycle/powder-lifecycle.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy
  url: https://powderapp.notion.site/POWDER-T-C-fb5f1576921f4ec9a7fb9d243786ace3
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  name: Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy (combined document)
  url: https://powderapp.notion.site/POWDER-T-C-fb5f1576921f4ec9a7fb9d243786ace3
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-17'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    Powder shipped only a consumer Windows desktop clipping app with no public API,
    portal or SDK, and the company has since wound down — its apex host powder.gg now
    301-redirects every path, including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/ path, to a
    first-party notice saying the app is no longer updated or maintained.
  evidence:
    - url: https://powder.gg/openapi.json
      status: 301
    - url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p8TjN7bCRdOnhrD5DjG02pmoGi4ylsGKmdCS-YV4jrg/export?format=txt
      status: 200
    - url: https://www.powder.gg/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.powder.gg/llms.txt
      status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-17'