# Vouch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vouch-co/  
**Website:** https://www.vouch.us  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Vouch is a San Francisco, California business insurance broker and risk advisor purpose-built for high-growth startups and the venture ecosystem. Founded in 2018 by Sam Hodges and Travis Hedge and backed by investors including Ribbit Capital, SVB Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, and MS&AD Ventures, Vouch offers a tailored portfolio of commercial coverages — Directors & Officers (D&O), Errors & Omissions (E&O / Tech E&O / Professional Services E&O), Cyber, Employment Practices Liability (EPL), General Liability, Business Property, Fiduciary, Crime, and contract-required coverages — sold to technology, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, and professional services companies. The business model is broker-of-record commissions and, since 2021, a Vouch-owned insurance carrier underwriting select lines. Vouch is best known in the developer community for its embedded insurance program, which lets ecosystem partners (Carta, StartupOS, and similar founder platforms) pre-fill applications, surface quotes, and bind coverage inline via Vouch's partner API. Public developer documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and a self-serve sandbox are not exposed; the partner API and Vouch Corporate documentation (hosted on GitBook) are gated to onboarded venture, technology, and service-provider partners contracted through hello@vouch.us.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 21.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Vouch Co Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Insurance, Business Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Insurtech, Startup Insurance, Directors and Officers, Errors And Omissions, Cyber Insurance, Employment Practices Liability, General Liability, Embedded Insurance, Risk Management, Brokerage, Underwriting, Venture Ecosystem

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vouch-co/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.