aid: raya
name: Raya
image: https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/77/6f/1c/776f1cab-941a-a60e-9a13-8cee1a625276/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007ephone-0-1-0-0-sRGB-85-220.png/512x512bb.jpg
description: 'Raya (legal entity Raya App Inc) is a private, membership-based global community for
  dating, friendship, and professional networking, founded by Daniel Gendelman in 2014 and launched
  in February 2015 out of Los Angeles, California. Membership is application-only: applications are
  reviewed on an ongoing basis by a global committee, an Instagram handle is required for identity
  verification, and accepted members choose a 1, 6, or 12 month paid subscription. The product is
  iOS-only (App Store id 957215308, minimum iOS 17.0) and is known for photo-slideshow profiles set
  to music, screenshot detection, and a community drawn heavily from creative industries. Public
  sources report roughly $15.5M raised from investors including Cowboy Ventures, Dreamers VC and
  S32, and the company appears on secondary marketplaces such as Forge Global and EquityZen. It is a
  consumer application company, not an API provider: enrichment probed rayatheapp.com, raya.co,
  api.rayatheapp.com, api.raya.co and icecream.rayatheapp.com and found no developer portal, no
  documentation, no OpenAPI/GraphQL/AsyncAPI contract, no MCP server, and no A2A agent card. The
  api.rayatheapp.com host is a private first-party mobile backend that returns 404 to every
  unauthenticated path. This profile is identity-only pending a public API surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/raya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-secondary-market: https://forgeglobal.com/raya_stock/
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Social Networking
- Dating
- Community
- Membership
- Mobile
- iOS
- Subscription
- Los Angeles
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/raya-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/about
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/membership
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/app/apply
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.rayatheapp.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: mailto:contact@rayatheapp.com
- type: Careers
  url: https://rayatheapp.com/careers
- type: Jobs
  url: https://jobs.lever.co/raya/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/RayaTheApp
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/raya
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rayatheapp
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/raya-llms.txt