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Ludlow Ventures

Ludlow Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Detroit, Michigan. Led by partners Jonathon Triest and Brett deMarrais, the firm invests in exceptional founders across sectors with a relationship-driven, people-first philosophy, backing companies at the earliest stages rather than chasing trends. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Foundry Group. Sector: venture-capital.

Ludlow Ventures is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Early Stage, Seed, and Startups.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Ludlow Ventures
description: 'Ludlow Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 and based in Detroit, Michigan. Led by
  partners Jonathon Triest and Brett deMarrais, the firm invests in exceptional founders across sectors with a relationship-driven,
  people-first philosophy, backing companies at the earliest stages rather than chasing trends. It was surfaced in the API
  Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Foundry Group. Sector: venture-capital.'
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