Basis Set Ventures

Basis Set Ventures is an AI-native, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Dr. Lan Xuezhao and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The firm invests at the seed and early stages in founders building artificial intelligence across AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, molecular and materials discovery, agentic development tooling, intelligent collaboration, and automated workflows. Basis Set announced a $250M Fund IV and describes itself as "the first capital when it's just you and your vision," pairing capital with an operator-led founder concierge team. Portfolio companies include Path Robotics, Quince, Sakana AI, Tigris Data, Mem0, OpenArt, Cusp, Simular, Vizcom, and Entire. This is an API Evangelist network profile of the firm; Basis Set Ventures does not publish a public API, developer portal, or SDKs, so this record captures firm identity, web properties, and derived security posture rather than API artifacts.

Basis Set Ventures is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Seed Stage.

Basis Set Ventures’ developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 8 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyVenture CapitalArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSeed StageEarly StageAI InfrastructureAutonomous SystemsStartups

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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

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Portfolio

Portfolio

Team

Team

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Basis Set Ventures
description: Basis Set Ventures is an AI-native, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Dr. Lan Xuezhao and headquartered
  in the San Francisco Bay Area. The firm invests at the seed and early stages in founders building artificial intelligence
  across AI infrastructure, autonomous systems, molecular and materials discovery, agentic development tooling, intelligent
  collaboration, and automated workflows. Basis Set announced a $250M Fund IV and describes itself as "the first capital when
  it's just you and your vision," pairing capital with an operator-led founder concierge team. Portfolio companies include
  Path Robotics, Quince, Sakana AI, Tigris Data, Mem0, OpenArt, Cusp, Simular, Vizcom, and Entire. This is an API Evangelist
  network profile of the firm; Basis Set Ventures does not publish a public API, developer portal, or SDKs, so this record
  captures firm identity, web properties, and derived security posture rather than API artifacts.
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