Venture Capital

Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, New York, London, and Tel Aviv. Battery invests across every stage of a company's life, from seed and early-stage venture through growth equity and private-equity buyouts, giving the firm a distinctive multi-stage perspective on technology markets. Its core areas of focus are application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, and industrial tech plus life-science tools. As of 2025 the firm reports having invested in more than 530 companies over its 40-plus-year history, of which roughly 70 have gone public and another 185 have been merged or acquired. Battery is currently investing out of its 15th flagship fund, Battery Ventures XV, capitalized at $3.25 billion, and has raised more than $16 billion across all of its funds since inception. The firm describes itself as decisive, hard-working, and thesis-driven, backing category-defining companies including Affirm, Amplitude, AppDynamics, Avalara, Akamai, Coupa, Wonolo, and many others. This profile tracks Battery Ventures' identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.

672 portfolio companies 671 publish APIs here 17 properties
Venture CapitalGrowth EquitySeedEarly StageBuyoutApplication SoftwareInfrastructure SoftwareIndustrial TechLife Science ToolsBostonUnited StatesGlobal
Portfolio Strength across 184 profiled portfolio companies on the network
46 top-rated API companies 18 exemplar · 28 strong
76 agent-ready companies 1 agent-native · 75 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 41.5
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 25.6

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Battery Ventures has 672 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 184 (27%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 487 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Harness, Braze, Gainsight, Confluent, Optimizely.

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 18 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 28 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 53 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 51 Limited public surface area
Emerging 31 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

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1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.

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The 355 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Battery Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
355
of 671 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
27.2
+2.8 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
13.9
+1.2 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
0.9–86.2
median 21.6 · σ 20.1
How the 355 split by band
Exemplar 18Strong 28Developing 54Thin 57Emerging 101Minimal 97
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 28.7 23.8 +4.9 355
Access Clarity 31.3 27.2 +4.1 355
Operational Transparency 18.3 14.4 +3.9 355
Discoverability 62.8 61.5 +1.3 355
Contract Quality 21.5 20.4 +1.1 355
Contract Governance 7.3 6.6 +0.7 355

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.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 11% 11% 0
MCP server (first-party) 14% 13% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 10% 12% -2
Security 77% 96% -19
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 9% 13% -4

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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Harness 86.2
  2. 2 Braze 81
  3. 3 Gainsight 80.9
  4. 4 Confluent 79.1
  5. 5 Optimizely 78
  6. 6 MX Technologies 75.6
  7. 7 Postman 72.4
  8. 8 ClickHouse 70.5
  9. 9 Bloomreach 70.4
  10. 10 BigPanda 69.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Harness 66.7
  2. 2 Bloomreach 63.7
  3. 3 Optimizely 62.5
  4. 4 ClickHouse 61.8
  5. 5 Unify 60
  6. 6 UserGems 59.9
  7. 7 Postman 57.6
  8. 8 Smartling 57.1
  9. 9 Braze 55.9
  10. 10 Shortcut Software 55.6
This roster declares 671 members; 644 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 355 carry a score (55%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 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.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: battery-ventures
name: Battery Ventures
description: >-
  Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm founded in
  1983 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in
  San Francisco, Menlo Park, New York, London, and Tel Aviv. Battery invests
  across every stage of a company's life, from seed and early-stage venture
  through growth equity and private-equity buyouts, giving the firm a
  distinctive multi-stage perspective on technology markets. Its core areas of
  focus are application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology,
  and industrial tech plus life-science tools. As of 2025 the firm reports
  having invested in more than 530 companies over its 40-plus-year history, of
  which roughly 70 have gone public and another 185 have been merged or
  acquired. Battery is currently investing out of its 15th flagship fund,
  Battery Ventures XV, capitalized at $3.25 billion, and has raised more than
  $16 billion across all of its funds since inception. The firm describes itself
  as decisive, hard-working, and thesis-driven, backing category-defining
  companies including Affirm, Amplitude, AppDynamics, Avalara, Akamai, Coupa,
  Wonolo, and many others. This profile tracks Battery Ventures' identity and
  its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
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  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/battery-ventures.png
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Growth Equity
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Buyout
  - Application Software
  - Infrastructure Software
  - Industrial Tech
  - Life Science Tools
  - Boston
  - United States
  - Global
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/battery-ventures/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.battery.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.battery.com/company/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.battery.com/list-of-all-companies/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/battery-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.battery.com/people/
  - type: Team
    url: team/battery-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.battery.com/about/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.battery.com/blog/
  - type: News
    url: https://www.battery.com/news-events/
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://www.battery.com/venture-growth-newsletter/
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://www.battery.com/private-equity-newsletter/
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://www.battery.com/corporate-development-newsletter/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.battery.com/jobs
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.battery.com/contact/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/battery-ventures/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/batteryventures
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/battery-ventures
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Seed, Early (venture), Growth equity, Buyout (all stages)"
      - "Sectors: application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, industrial tech, life-science tools"
      - "Geography: Global (United States, Europe, Israel)"
      - "AUM: $3.25B current flagship fund (Battery Ventures XV); $16B+ raised since inception (self-reported)"
      - "Founded: 1983"
      - "HQ: Boston, MA"
      - "Offices: Boston, San Francisco, Menlo Park, New York, London, Tel Aviv"
      - "Track record: 530+ companies invested; ~70 IPOs; ~185 M&A exits (self-reported, 2025)"
    sources:
      - https://www.battery.com/about/
      - https://www.battery.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Battery Ventures
    url: https://www.battery.com/

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