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Kiva Software

Kiva Software Corporation was a pioneer of the internet application server, founded in May 1994 by chairman and CEO Keng Lim and headquartered in Mountain View, California. In January 1996 Kiva shipped what is widely credited as the industry's first web application server, giving companies a platform for developing and deploying transaction-oriented business applications on the web — and the first Java application server to market, with C++ application development supported alongside it. The product line comprised the Kiva Enterprise Server (deployment and management runtime), the Kiva Application Builder (graphical development tool), and the Kiva SDK with Java and C++ foundation classes; the company also ran the Kiva Enterprise Alliance Program (KEAP) for end-to-end partner solutions. Customers included Bank of America, E-Trade, Travelocity, Internet Shopping Network, Hong Kong Telecom, and Pacific Bell Internet. Kiva raised roughly $13.9 million across two rounds from Weiss Peck & Greer, Greylock, Discovery Ventures, Sippl MacDonald Ventures, Norwest Venture Capital, and Trinity Ventures, and is listed in the Lightspeed Venture Partners portfolio as a 1996 early-stage investment. In December 1997 Netscape Communications acquired Kiva for approximately $180 million in stock (6.3 million Netscape shares), and the Kiva Enterprise Server became the Netscape Application Server — which went on to become the iPlanet Application Server under the AOL/Netscape–Sun Microsystems alliance, then Sun ONE Application Server and Sun Java System Application Server. Kiva has not operated independently since 1997, published no public developer API in the modern sense, and has no live web presence today (the historical www.kivasoft.com domain is now parked and listed for sale). This profile is retained as a historical Lightspeed and Trinity Ventures portfolio record — there is no active developer surface to enrich.

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Kin Score
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Kiva Software is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Kiva Software scores 5.0/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Kiva Software Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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Every other property we hold for Kiva Software — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

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Kiva Software is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.

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This is an independent, third-party profile of Kiva Software, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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