Venture Capital

The firms funding the API economy. Each profile carries the firm’s identity and properties, its raw apis.yml, and — the point of the section — its portfolio graph: which of its companies publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, ranked by their API Evangelist rating. Firms are ordered by how far their portfolio reaches into the network.

104 firms 21386 portfolio companies 3793 publish APIs here

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in July 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and headquar...

186 on network · 1100 portfolio

Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a global software-focused venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock an...

181 on network · 797 portfolio

Accel

Accel is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo A...

178 on network · 766 portfolio

Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is one of the oldest and largest venture capital firms in the world, founded in 1911 out of the fortune o...

118 on network · 520 portfolio

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhat...

116 on network · 603 portfolio

GV

GV (formerly Google Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, founded in 2009 by Bill Maris and headquartered in the San Francisc...

115 on network · 658 portfolio

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996 by Neil Rimer, David Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco, and headquartere...

106 on network · 318 portfolio

500 Global

500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) is a global venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine...

102 on network · 2121 portfolio

General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a global venture capital and investment firm founded in 2000 by Joel Cutler and David Fialkow, headquartered in Cambr...

96 on network · 597 portfolio

ICONIQ Capital

ICONIQ Capital is a global investment firm founded in December 2011 by Divesh Makan, Michael Anders, and Chad Boeding, headquartered in S...

88 on network · 166 portfolio

SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific angel investo...

80 on network · 141 portfolio

Y Combinator

Y Combinator is the most influential startup accelerator in the world, founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan ...

79 on network · 839 portfolio

Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional o...

79 on network · 229 portfolio

Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 1961 and headquartered in Menlo Pa...

75 on network · 429 portfolio

Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additio...

73 on network · 672 portfolio

Institutional Venture Partners

Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a later-stage venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1980 by Reid Dennis and headquart...

72 on network · 153 portfolio

SoftBank Vision Fund

SoftBank Vision Fund (managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers) is one of the world's largest technology-focused investment funds, launche...

69 on network · 333 portfolio

Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest and best-known venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1965 in Cambridge, Massachus...

69 on network · 158 portfolio

Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, a multi-stage, domain-focused venture business founded in 2001 wi...

68 on network · 271 portfolio

Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976 and headquartered in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California, that...

68 on network · 215 portfolio

Techstars

Techstars is a global pre-seed startup accelerator and investor founded in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis i...

63 on network · 973 portfolio

Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perki...

57 on network · 230 portfolio

Felicis Ventures

Felicis Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Aydin Senkut and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The ...

57 on network · 211 portfolio

CRV

CRV (formerly Charles River Ventures) is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1970 to commercialize r...

57 on network · 154 portfolio

BOND

BOND is a San Francisco-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Mary Meeker, Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf, and Juliet de ...

54 on network · 120 portfolio

Amplify Partners

Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with a second office...

49 on network · 114 portfolio

Craft Ventures

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in late 2017 by repeat entrepreneurs David Sacks and Bill Lee, built...

44 on network · 111 portfolio

Union Square Ventures

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a thesis-driven, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham and head...

42 on network · 206 portfolio

GGV Capital

GGV Capital (Granite Global Ventures) was a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, Cal...

41 on network · 118 portfolio

8VC

8VC is a technology investment firm founded in 2015 by Joe Lonsdale and Jake Medwell (with founding partners Drew Oetting and Kimmy Scott...

36 on network · 173 portfolio

Seedcamp

Seedcamp is Europe's original first-cheque seed fund, founded in May 2007 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It backs founders ...

35 on network · 316 portfolio

DCVC (Data Collective)

DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep-tech venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California. ...

35 on network · 292 portfolio

Benchmark

Benchmark is an American early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and ...

35 on network · 41 portfolio

Dragoneer Investment Group

Dragoneer Investment Group is a San Francisco-based growth-oriented investment firm founded in 2012 by Marc Stad, a former TPG Capital an...

35 on network · 41 portfolio

Bloomberg Beta

Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies making business work better, with a particular focus on t...

34 on network · 257 portfolio

Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is a U.S.-based investment firm founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead (former Tiger Management head of macro trading and CFO) t...

34 on network · 191 portfolio

Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is a London-headquartered venture capital firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded technology companies. Fo...

33 on network · 193 portfolio

Initialized Capital

Initialized Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, and Harjeet (Harj) Taggar, with of...

33 on network · 184 portfolio

Point Nine Capital

Point Nine Capital is a thesis-driven, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It is one o...

33 on network · 174 portfolio

Uncork Capital

Uncork Capital is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Clavier, who formalized his angel portfol...

33 on network · 174 portfolio

Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners (now branded simply "Matrix") is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri, investing from idea t...

32 on network · 130 portfolio

Partech

Partech is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 1982 in Silicon Valley by European pioneers and headquartered in Paris, ...

31 on network · 269 portfolio

Emergence Capital

Emergence Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused exclusiv...

30 on network · 86 portfolio

Thrive Capital

Thrive Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner and headquartered in the Puck Building in New York City. The f...

29 on network · 45 portfolio

Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven crypto investment firm founded in 2017 by Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, investing in cryptocurrencies...

28 on network · 134 portfolio

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. The firm ba...

28 on network · 125 portfolio

Mayfield Fund

Mayfield Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1969 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, with ...

27 on network · 143 portfolio

Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, best known for th...

26 on network · 61 portfolio

Coatue Management

Coatue Management is a global technology-focused investment manager founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, headquartered in New York City w...

26 on network · 29 portfolio

Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1987 as a management buyout spin-out from General Electric's venture un...

24 on network · 341 portfolio

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional office...

24 on network · 143 portfolio

Creandum

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Staffan Helgesson and headquartered in Stockholm, Swed...

23 on network · 154 portfolio

QED Investors

QED Investors is a global venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman, both early leaders at Capital One, and h...

22 on network · 160 portfolio

Trinity Ventures

Trinity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with more than three...

22 on network · 111 portfolio

Threshold Ventures

Threshold Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California that backs founder-led technology companies at ...

22 on network · 86 portfolio

D1 Capital Partners

D1 Capital Partners is a New York City-based global investment firm founded in July 2018 by Daniel Sundheim, the former Chief Investment ...

22 on network · 50 portfolio

Scale Venture Partners

Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Foster City, California, that invests primarily at Serie...

22 on network · 42 portfolio

Tiger Global Management

Tiger Global Management is an American investment firm founded in 2001 by Chase Coleman III, headquartered at 9 West 57th Street in New Y...

22 on network · 32 portfolio

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded by Don Valentine in 1972 and headquartered at 2800 Sand Hill...

21 on network · 21 portfolio

Wing Venture Capital

Wing Venture Capital is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2013 by Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg (both former partners at Sequoia Capi...

20 on network · 105 portfolio

Altimeter Capital

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm founded in 2008 by Brad Gerstner in Boston, Massachusetts, launched during the ...

20 on network · 26 portfolio

Speedinvest

Speedinvest is one of Europe's most active early-stage venture capital firms, founded in 2011 by Oliver Holle and headquartered in Vienna...

19 on network · 288 portfolio

Lux Capital

Lux Capital is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Josh Wolfe, Peter Hebert, and Robert Paull that backs entrep...

19 on network · 102 portfolio

Electric Capital

Electric Capital is an engineering-led venture capital firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, investing in foun...

19 on network · 78 portfolio

Kindred Ventures

Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based, earliest-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Steve Jang and led today as a partnersh...

18 on network · 117 portfolio

Homebrew

Homebrew is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Hunter Walk (a former product leader at Google and Y...

18 on network · 103 portfolio

Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Paul Conway, Santo Politi, Todd Dagres, and Bijan Sabet, with offi...

18 on network · 48 portfolio

Northzone

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 in Oslo and now headquartered in London, with additional offices in New Y...

17 on network · 140 portfolio

Version One Ventures

Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in July 2012 by Boris Wertz and headquartered in Vancouver, British C...

17 on network · 83 portfolio

DCM Ventures

DCM Ventures (formerly Doll Capital Management, and commonly known as DCM) is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Dixo...

16 on network · 151 portfolio

Foundry Group

Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. ...

16 on network · 110 portfolio

Polychain Capital

Polychain Capital is a San Francisco-based investment firm founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, the first employee and former Head of Ris...

15 on network · 82 portfolio

HV Capital

HV Capital is one of Europe's leading early-stage and growth venture capital firms, headquartered in Munich with an office in Berlin. Fou...

14 on network · 141 portfolio

Addition

Addition is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Lee Fixel, the former head of Tiger Global Management's private...

14 on network · 24 portfolio

Cowboy Ventures

Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Aileen Lee (who coined the term "unicorn" for billion-dollar star...

13 on network · 88 portfolio

Social Capital

Social Capital is a technology investment firm founded in 2011 by Chamath Palihapitiya (a former Facebook executive) and headquartered in...

13 on network · 21 portfolio

First Round Capital

First Round Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan, headquartered in San Francis...

12 on network · 25 portfolio

Anthemis Group

Anthemis Group is a London-based venture capital and asset management firm founded in 2010 by Amy Nauiokas (Group CEO) and Sean Park (Gro...

11 on network · 154 portfolio

Bullpen Capital

Bullpen Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Paul Martino, Duncan Davidson, and Richard Melmon that p...

11 on network · 92 portfolio

Sierra Ventures

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Peter Wendell in 1982 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, in th...

11 on network · 84 portfolio

True Ventures

True Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Jon Callaghan and Phil Black and headquartered in Palo Alto / San...

11 on network · 50 portfolio

Fifth Wall

Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Brendan F. Wallace and Brad Greiwe and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, ...

11 on network · 46 portfolio

Shasta Ventures

Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 and based in Silicon Valley (Portola Valley / Menlo Park, on and a...

11 on network · 29 portfolio

Earlybird Venture Capital

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, with additional offices in ...

10 on network · 118 portfolio

EQT Ventures

EQT Ventures is the early-stage venture capital business within EQT Group, launched in 2016 and operating out of Stockholm with investmen...

10 on network · 94 portfolio

Forerunner Ventures

Forerunner Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Kirsten Green and headquartered in San Francisco, Californi...

9 on network · 80 portfolio

Atomico

Atomico is a London-headquartered European venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype and Kazaa. Atomi...

9 on network · 35 portfolio

New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest and longest-running venture capital firms, founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich...

9 on network · 30 portfolio

HongShan (HSG)

HongShan (HSG), formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing across tec...

7 on network · 101 portfolio

Obvious Ventures

Obvious Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ev Williams, James Joaquin, and Vishal Vasi...

6 on network · 90 portfolio

Playground Global

Playground Global is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin, Bruce Leak, Matt Hershenson, and Peter ...

5 on network · 43 portfolio

Susa Ventures

Susa Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Chad Byers, Leo Polovets, and Seth Berman on t...

5 on network · 21 portfolio

Hillhouse Investment

Hillhouse Investment (formerly Hillhouse Capital) is a global investment firm founded in 2005 by Lei Zhang with seed capital from the Yal...

5 on network · 14 portfolio

Prosus Ventures

Prosus Ventures is the venture-capital arm of Prosus, the Amsterdam-headquartered global consumer-internet and technology group (part of ...

4 on network · 85 portfolio

IDG Capital

IDG Capital is a global investment firm founded in Boston in 1993 and headquartered in Hong Kong, widely recognized as one of the first f...

4 on network · 75 portfolio

Qiming Venture Partners

Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Duane Kuang and Gary Rieschel, headquartered in ...

3 on network · 374 portfolio

Costanoa Ventures

Costanoa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in June 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additio...

3 on network · 24 portfolio

Lemnos Labs

Lemnos Labs, Inc. is an early-stage deeptech venture capital firm that invests at the earliest phases of hardware company formation, help...

1 on network · 19 portfolio

Sapphire Ventures

Sapphire Ventures is a global software venture capital firm that partners with expansion-stage enterprise technology companies it believe...

0 on network · 177 portfolio

Ribbit Capital

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Micky Malka and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, investing globally in...

0 on network · 149 portfolio

Paradigm

Paradigm is a research-driven, frontier-technology investment firm founded in 2018 by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia ...

0 on network · 103 portfolio

Leadout Capital

Leadout Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Portola Valley, California, founded in 2018 by Ali Rosenthal — an...

0 on network · 46 portfolio

Arthur Ventures

Arthur Ventures is a Minneapolis, Minnesota venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B software companies with a global reach. ...

0 on network · 0 portfolio

Bonfire Ventures

Bonfire Ventures is a Los Angeles-based, seed-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Mark Mullen and Jim Andelman that invests exclusiv...

0 on network · 0 portfolio