8VC
8VC is a technology investment firm founded in 2015 by Joe Lonsdale and Jake Medwell (with founding partners Drew Oetting and Kimmy Scotti) following the wind-down of Formation 8, and headquartered at 907 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas after relocating from San Francisco in 2020. The firm both invests in and co-founds early-stage companies, dedicating a significant share of its capital (roughly 25-30%) to building companies from scratch through its "8VC Build" venture-studio program and assembling teams of top specialists. 8VC concentrates on "national capability" and deep-tech categories including defense, life sciences and biotech, healthcare, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing and industrials, enterprise software, financial services, AI, and IT infrastructure. With approximately $6 billion in assets under management (2023) and a public portfolio of more than 170 companies, 8VC is known for its founder-led, mission-driven approach and notable investments including Palantir, Addepar, Anduril, Flexport, Vercel, Saronic, Epirus, Yugabyte, and Project44. The firm runs the 8VC Fellowship and Bio-IT Fellowship talent programs and maintains a stated policy of not accepting capital from foreign-government-connected sources.
8VC has 173 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 53 (31%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 120 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Nylas, Salesforceiq, Asana, Airbyte, Yugabyte.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Properties
Portfolio
Where the firm publishes its investments
Firm
The firm itself
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 154 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by 8VC, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 26.1 | 26.5 | -0.4 | 154 |
| Operational Transparency | 12 | 13.2 | -1.2 | 154 |
| Contract Governance | 5.5 | 7 | -1.5 | 154 |
| Discoverability | 56.3 | 58 | -1.7 | 154 |
| Contract Quality | 13.9 | 17.7 | -3.8 | 154 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.7 | 23.8 | -4.1 | 154 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 17% | 15% | +2 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 18% | 13% | +5 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 12% | 12% | 0 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 5% | 2% | +3 |
| Governance rules | 10% | 18% | -8 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
- 1 Nylas
- 2 Salesforce
- 3 Asana
- 4 Airbyte
- 5 Yugabyte
- 6 Candid Health
- 7 Vercel
- 8 Rocketlane
- 9 Structify
- 10 Esper
- 1 OpenGov {"score" => 61.3, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 2 Nylas {"score" => 59.6, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 3 Salesforce {"score" => 54.7, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 4 Asana {"score" => 53.7, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 5 Standard Metrics {"score" => 53.6, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 6 Socotra {"score" => 53.2, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 7 DataHub {"score" => 48.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 8 Freight Waves {"score" => 48.1, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 9 Wish {"score" => 46.4, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 10 Vercel {"score" => 45.2, "band" => "agent-ready"}
Coverage caveat. 143 of 154 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 2 November 2026, across 37080 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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