Bass Associates

Bass Associates is an early- and growth-stage venture capital firm historically based at 435 Tasso Street, Palo Alto, California, and appears on the Battery Ventures "list of all companies" as an exited entry. Public investor databases record roughly 32 investments and 10 exits alongside co-investors such as Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins and CRV, with its last recorded investment (Teloquent, growth equity) in January 2002 and its last recorded exit in December 2003. The 2026 enrichment pass found no operating website, no developer portal, no documentation and no API surface of any kind: the firm appears dormant and is not an API provider. It was surfaced into the API Evangelist network by the VC-portfolio crawl as a Battery Ventures portfolio lead, but the underlying entity is itself an investor rather than an operating software company.

Bass Associates is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, and Dormant.

📡 Profile data on GitHub

2.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

0 APIs

Company Venture Capital Investment Finance Dormant

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 2.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: bass-associates
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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/bass-associates.png
name: Bass Associates
description: 'Bass Associates is an early- and growth-stage venture capital firm historically based at 435 Tasso Street, Palo
  Alto, California, and appears on the Battery Ventures "list of all companies" as an exited entry. Public investor databases
  record roughly 32 investments and 10 exits alongside co-investors such as Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins and CRV, with
  its last recorded investment (Teloquent, growth equity) in January 2002 and its last recorded exit in December 2003. The
  2026 enrichment pass found no operating website, no developer portal, no documentation and no API surface of any kind: the
  firm appears dormant and is not an API provider. It was surfaced into the API Evangelist network by the VC-portfolio crawl
  as a Battery Ventures portfolio lead, but the underlying entity is itself an investor rather than an operating software
  company.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bass-associates/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-classification: venture-capital-firm
x-status: dormant
x-api-surface: none
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Investment
- Finance
- Dormant
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Searched Battery Ventures company list, CB Insights and general web; probed bassassociates.com and bass-associates.com
    (both 200 but unrelated entities — a Toronto labour-relations consultancy and an Arizona collections law firm). No provider
    domain, no API, no docs, no artifacts to derive.

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