Maple VC

Maple VC is an early-stage ("believing first") venture capital firm that writes first checks into founders at the seed stage, before their companies achieve mainstream recognition. The firm invests globally across four operator communities — San Francisco, Canada, Cambridge, and Korea — and is run by operators drawn from early teams at Uber, DigitalOcean, and Shopify. Notable portfolio companies include Clay, Neo Financial, AutoLeap, Playbook, BenchIQ, Finny, and Blacklake. Maple VC is a venture capital firm and does not operate a developer platform, public API, or API documentation.

Maple VC is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Investor.

Maple VC’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 7 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 CapitalSeed StageEarly StageInvestorStartupsVenture Funding

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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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

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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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
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name: Maple VC
description: Maple VC is an early-stage ("believing first") venture capital firm that writes first checks into founders at
  the seed stage, before their companies achieve mainstream recognition. The firm invests globally across four operator communities
  — San Francisco, Canada, Cambridge, and Korea — and is run by operators drawn from early teams at Uber, DigitalOcean, and
  Shopify. Notable portfolio companies include Clay, Neo Financial, AutoLeap, Playbook, BenchIQ, Finny, and Blacklake. Maple
  VC is a venture capital firm and does not operate a developer platform, public API, or API documentation.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/maple/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
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modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Seed Stage
- Early Stage
- Investor
- Startups
- Venture Funding
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/maple-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.maplevc.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.maplevc.com/blog
- type: Portfolio
  url: https://www.maplevc.com/portfolio
- type: Team
  url: https://www.maplevc.com/team
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.maplevc.com/contact
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://linkedin.com/company/maple-vc
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/MapleVCFund