Venture Capital

Bloomberg Beta

Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies making business work better, with a particular focus on the future of work, machine intelligence, and technologies reshaping how companies operate. Founded in 2013 and capitalized entirely by Bloomberg L.P. (though it invests independently), the firm runs approximately $450M across five $75M funds - its 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 vintages plus a first opportunity fund for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies. Bloomberg Beta writes seed and early-stage checks (roughly $1M-$7M), leads or co-leads rounds, and is known for operating in public: its entire "operating manual," investment criteria, and full publicly announced portfolio live openly on GitHub, and it open-sources its Series Seed, SAFE, and note investment documents. The firm operates from San Francisco (140 New Montgomery St.) and New York (731 Lexington Ave.), backs founders across developer tools, infrastructure, security, AI, and enterprise software, and measures itself primarily on founder NPS.

257 portfolio companies 255 publish APIs here 13 properties

Venture Capital Seed Early Stage Developer Tools Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Future Of Work Enterprise San Francisco New York

Portfolio Strength across 67 profiled portfolio companies on the network

16 top-rated API companies 5 exemplar · 11 strong

21 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 19 agent-ready

Average quality of the book:

Composite thin 37.4

Agent-Readiness agent-aware 21.5

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.

Bloomberg Beta has 257 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 67 (26%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 188 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are LaunchDarkly, Stedi, Diffbot, Netlify, Slack.

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

LaunchDarkly3 published contracts80.8 Stedi8 published contracts78.8 Diffbot11 published contracts75.4 Netlify3 published contracts72.4 Slack32 published contracts68.4

Strong 11 Solid coverage with minor gaps

StrongDM3 APIs64.9 GONG!12 published contracts64.7 ValiMail4 published contracts64.2 Syft Data1 published contract62.0 InfluxData2 published contracts60.7 Gridspace1 published contract59.3 Fieldwire6 published contracts56.7 Agentuity1 API55.6 Replicant4 published contracts55.4 Sumble1 published contract55.3 Fiddler Labs1 API54.8

Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Thin 17 Limited public surface area

DigitalGenius1 API38.7 Range1 API38.2 AppZen2 published contracts37.9 Ellipsis1 API37.3 Qpoint1 API36.0 Workflowy2 APIs35.0 Bonusly1 published contract34.4 Tonic.ai1 published contract34.4 Intricately1 API32.4 Everledger1 API31.8 Pinpoint1 published contract31.6 Virgil Security1 API31.5 Meetup1 API31.0 Black Crow AI2 APIs30.9 Domino Data Lab1 API29.3 TabTabTab1 API29.0 Prox1 API26.6

Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented

Everlance1 API24.2 Graphistry1 API21.7 Bluefish AI1 API21.4 Gradescope1 published contract21.4 Charter3 APIs20.7 Next Big Idea Club1 published contract18.6 LeapYear1 API16.5 Compaas27 APIs15.5 Flexport1 published contract15.5 The Block3 APIs14.6 Shield AI1 API13.4 Flashpoint1 API11.7

Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface

Oomnitza1 API8.4 Kaggle1 API5.9 Eva1 API3.3 Pico1 API0.0 Subspace2 published contracts0.0

Rest of Portfolio

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

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Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio

Portfolio

InvestmentThesis

InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team

Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

News

News

Firm

The firm itself

Website

Website

Website

Website

Crunchbase

Crunchbase

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other

Everything else declared in apis.yml

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Pitch

Pitch

Cohort brief

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The 200 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Bloomberg Beta, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

200

of 255 on the roster

Mean Kin Score

19.6

-3.3 vs catalog 22.9

Mean Agent Readiness

8.2

-3.8 vs catalog 12

Spread

0–80.8

median 13.4 · σ 17.7

How the 200 split by band

Exemplar 5Strong 9Developing 18Thin 19Emerging 70Minimal 79

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Access Clarity	27.6	26.4	+1.2	200
Contract Governance	4.2	6.3	-2.1	200
Operational Transparency	11.1	13.6	-2.5	200
Developer Ergonomics	20.5	23.1	-2.6	200
Discoverability	55.2	58.2	-3	200
Contract Quality	9.8	17.6	-7.8	200

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

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	17%	15%	+2
MCP server (first-party)	16%	12%	+4
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	9%	11%	-2
Security	96%	98%	-2
Arazzo workflows	1%	2%	-1
Governance rules	6%	13%	-7

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 LaunchDarkly 80.8
2 Stedi 78.8
3 Diffbot 75.4
4 Netlify 71.9
5 Slack 68.4
6 Gong 64.7
7 Valimail 64.2
8 Syft Data 62
9 InfluxData 60.7
10 Gridspace 59.3

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bloomberg-beta
name: Bloomberg Beta
description: >-
  Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies
  making business work better, with a particular focus on the future of work,
  machine intelligence, and technologies reshaping how companies operate. Founded
  in 2013 and capitalized entirely by Bloomberg L.P. (though it invests
  independently), the firm runs approximately $450M across five $75M funds - its
  2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 vintages plus a first opportunity fund for follow-on
  investments in existing portfolio companies. Bloomberg Beta writes seed and
  early-stage checks (roughly $1M-$7M), leads or co-leads rounds, and is known for
  operating in public: its entire "operating manual," investment criteria, and full
  publicly announced portfolio live openly on GitHub, and it open-sources its Series
  Seed, SAFE, and note investment documents. The firm operates from San Francisco
  (140 New Montgomery St.) and New York (731 Lexington Ave.), backs founders across
  developer tools, infrastructure, security, AI, and enterprise software, and
  measures itself primarily on founder NPS.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5019271?v=4
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Future Of Work
  - Enterprise
  - San Francisco
  - New York
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Future of Work
  - Enterprise
  - San Francisco
  - New York
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.bloombergbeta.com/
  - type: Website
    url: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/2%20-%20In%20our%20portfolio.md
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/bloomberg-beta-portfolio.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/3%20-%20Criteria%20for%20investing.md
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/1%20-%20Manual.md
  - type: Team
    url: team/bloomberg-beta-team.yml
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta
  - type: Pitch
    url: https://bit.ly/meet-betafund
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bloomberg-beta
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloombergbeta
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/bloombergbeta
  - type: News
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Beta
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Seed, Early Stage'
      - 'Typical check: $1M-$7M'
      - 'Sectors: developer tools, infrastructure, security, AI, future of work, enterprise software'
      - 'Geography: United States (San Francisco and New York)'
      - 'AUM: ~$450M across five $75M funds (self-reported)'
      - 'Funds: 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 vintages + first opportunity fund'
      - 'Founded: 2013'
      - 'HQ: San Francisco, CA (with New York, NY office)'
      - 'Capitalized by: Bloomberg L.P. (invests independently)'
    sources:
      - https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/1%20-%20Manual.md
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Beta
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Bloomberg Beta
    url: https://www.bloombergbeta.com/

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