Matchstick Ventures

Matchstick Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing across the North and Rockies (the Upper Midwest and Mountain West). The firm backs seed and pre-seed founders where innovative ideas, large markets, and diverse "underdog" founders intersect, describing itself as a catalyst for its founders, partners, and regional startup communities. Its portfolio spans consumer, commerce, developer, and B2B software companies including Soona, StackHawk, Spekit, Branch, Inspectorio, Airspace Link, Fiveable, Parallax, River, Tilt, Base, Ordermark, and Upsie.

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

Matchstick Ventures’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 6 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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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

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

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Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Other 2

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Team

Team

Portfolio

Portfolio

Source (apis.yml)

aid: matchstick-ventures
name: Matchstick Ventures
description: Matchstick Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing across the North and Rockies (the Upper
  Midwest and Mountain West). The firm backs seed and pre-seed founders where innovative ideas, large markets, and diverse
  "underdog" founders intersect, describing itself as a catalyst for its founders, partners, and regional startup communities.
  Its portfolio spans consumer, commerce, developer, and B2B software companies including Soona, StackHawk, Spekit, Branch,
  Inspectorio, Airspace Link, Fiveable, Parallax, River, Tilt, Base, Ordermark, and Upsie.
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