Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in late 2017 by repeat entrepreneurs David Sacks and Bill Lee, built "by founders for founders" and rooted in the operator playbook of the PayPal Mafia. The firm invests across early and growth stages, writing checks that range from micro-seed positions through double-digit millions, and specializes in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and enterprise software prized for high-growth, high-margin, recurring-revenue economics. Craft is known for its rigorous, metrics-driven SaaS operating framework and hands-on support spanning talent, go-to-market, community, and finance. Beyond core SaaS, the portfolio spans artificial intelligence, developer tools, fintech and crypto, cybersecurity, digital health, defense, and frontier technology. The firm manages roughly $3.3 billion in assets across four early-stage funds and two growth funds, including Craft Ventures IV ($712M) and Craft Ventures Growth II ($608M). Notable investments include Airbnb, Affirm, Reddit, Uber, Lyft, Palantir, Slack, ElevenLabs, Supabase, Anduril, and Neuralink. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and Austin, Texas, and a primarily United States geographic focus.
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.
Craft Ventures has 111 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 70 (63%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 41 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are ElevenLabs, Twilio, ClickUp, UserGems, People Data Labs.
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.
Exemplar5Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 102 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Craft Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
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)
29%
11%
+18
MCP server (first-party)
29%
13%
+16
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
25%
12%
+13
Security
100%
96%
+4
Arazzo workflows
2%
2%
0
Governance rules
19%
13%
+6
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.
This roster declares 111 members; 108
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 102 carry a score
(94%). 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.
aid: craft-ventures
name: Craft Ventures
description: >-
Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in late
2017 by repeat entrepreneurs David Sacks and Bill Lee, built "by founders for
founders" and rooted in the operator playbook of the PayPal Mafia. The firm
invests across early and growth stages, writing checks that range from micro-seed
positions through double-digit millions, and specializes in B2B SaaS,
marketplaces, and enterprise software prized for high-growth, high-margin,
recurring-revenue economics. Craft is known for its rigorous, metrics-driven
SaaS operating framework and hands-on support spanning talent, go-to-market,
community, and finance. Beyond core SaaS, the portfolio spans artificial
intelligence, developer tools, fintech and crypto, cybersecurity, digital health,
defense, and frontier technology. The firm manages roughly $3.3 billion in
assets across four early-stage funds and two growth funds, including Craft
Ventures IV ($712M) and Craft Ventures Growth II ($608M). Notable investments
include Airbnb, Affirm, Reddit, Uber, Lyft, Palantir, Slack, ElevenLabs,
Supabase, Anduril, and Neuralink. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices
in New York City and Austin, Texas, and a primarily United States geographic focus.
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source:
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generated: '2026-08-28'
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onboarding: unknown
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source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://www.craftventures.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth Equity
- Software-as-a-Service
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Fintech
- United States
tags_raw:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth Equity
- SaaS
- B2B
- Marketplaces
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Fintech
- United States
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url: https://www.craftventures.com/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.craftventures.com/portfolio
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/craft-ventures-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://www.craftventures.com/team
- type: Team
url: team/craft-ventures-team.yml
- type: Blog
url: https://www.craftventures.com/blog/all
- type: Twitter
url: https://x.com/craft_ventures
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/craft-ventures/
- type: Podcast
url: https://www.youtube.com/@craft_ventures
- type: Features
data:
- 'Stage: Early (Seed, Series A) and Growth'
- 'Typical check: micro-seed through double-digit millions'
- 'Sectors: B2B SaaS, marketplaces, enterprise software, AI, developer tools, fintech, crypto, cybersecurity, digital health, defense, frontier tech'
- 'Geography: United States (primary)'
- 'AUM: approximately $3.3 billion (across four early-stage funds and two growth funds)'
- 'Funds: Craft Ventures I-IV, Craft Ventures Growth I-II (Fund IV $712M, Growth II $608M)'
- 'Founded: late 2017'
- 'Founders: David Sacks, Bill Lee'
- 'HQ: San Francisco, CA (offices in New York City and Austin, TX)'
sources:
- https://www.craftventures.com/
- https://medium.com/craft-ventures/announcing-1-3-billion-for-craft-ventures-iv-and-growth-ii-19ae15e705bc
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Craft Ventures
url: https://www.craftventures.com/
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