Avid Ventures website screenshot

Avid Ventures

Avid Ventures is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Addie Lerner Katz, backing founders from pre-incorporation through growth across fintech, consumer, software, and emerging AI. The firm emphasizes hands-on, vertically integrated support — recruiting, go-to-market and customer introductions, and fundraising help — investing across the U.S., Europe, and Israel. It launched with a $68M debut fund in February 2021 and raised an $87M Fund II in September 2024 (roughly $165M in total capital under management). Surfaced as a portfolio-adjacent firm of Foundry Group and profiled in the API Evangelist network as a venture-capital company record.

Avid Ventures is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Early Stage, Fintech, and Consumer.

Avid Ventures’ developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 4 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub
7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanyVenture CapitalEarly StageFintechConsumerSoftwareArtificial Intelligence

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/avid-ventures: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Avid Ventures Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube
YouTube

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: avid-ventures
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/avid-ventures.png
name: Avid Ventures
description: Avid Ventures is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Addie Lerner Katz, backing founders
  from pre-incorporation through growth across fintech, consumer, software, and emerging AI. The firm emphasizes hands-on,
  vertically integrated support — recruiting, go-to-market and customer introductions, and fundraising help — investing across
  the U.S., Europe, and Israel. It launched with a $68M debut fund in February 2021 and raised an $87M Fund II in September
  2024 (roughly $165M in total capital under management). Surfaced as a portfolio-adjacent firm of Foundry Group and profiled
  in the API Evangelist network as a venture-capital company record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/avid-ventures/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- foundry-group
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Early Stage
- Fintech
- Consumer
- Software
- Artificial Intelligence
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/avid-ventures-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.avidventures.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.avidventures.com/#news
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addielernerkatz/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/addielerner
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@AvidVC
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence