Venture Capital

Electric Capital

Electric Capital is an engineering-led venture capital firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, investing in founders building frontier technologies across crypto, cryptography, distributed systems, and AI. The firm backs user-owned technology and cryptographic infrastructure that reduces reliance on intermediaries and gives users control, privacy, and access. Electric Capital invests from pre-seed through growth, with typical checks ranging from roughly $1M to $15M+, and has deployed more than $3B since inception across multiple funds (including a $1B raise announced in 2022). Its portfolio spans DeFi, layer-1 and layer-2 infrastructure, exchanges, developer tools, security, identity, and select AI, fintech, healthcare, and deep-tech companies, with notable investments including Solana, Kraken, EigenLayer/EigenCloud, dYdX, Magic Eden, Sui/Mysten Labs, NEAR, Consensys, and Aave. The firm is also known for authoring the widely cited annual Electric Capital Developer Report.

79 portfolio companies 79 publish APIs here 14 properties
Venture CapitalPre-SeedSeedSeries AGrowthCryptoWeb3DeFiBlockchain InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsArtificial IntelligenceNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 78 profiled portfolio companies on the network
2 top-rated API companies 2 exemplar · 0 strong
13 agent-ready companies 0 agent-native · 13 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 26.0
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.8

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.

Electric Capital has 79 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 79 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Kraken, Solana, Fordefi, Kuru, Dialect.

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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 23 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 18 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Team

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Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

Firm

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Other

Everything else declared in apis.yml

Cohort brief

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The 78 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Electric Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
78
of 79 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
26.3
+5.6 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
12
+2.3 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
1.5–70.6
median 22.2 · σ 16.5
How the 78 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 21Thin 12Emerging 25Minimal 17
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 37 17.9 +19.1 78
Discoverability 66.9 60.4 +6.5 78
Operational Transparency 14.4 11.3 +3.1 78
Contract Quality 20 17.5 +2.5 78
Contract Governance 7.4 6.4 +1 78
Access Clarity 21.4 22.3 -0.9 78

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) 32% 16% +16
MCP server (first-party) 12% 7% +5
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 4% 9% -5
Security 97% 88% +9
Arazzo workflows 6% 2% +4
Governance rules 8% 13% -5

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 Kraken 70.6
  2. 2 Solana 65.8
  3. 3 Fordefi 56.2
  4. 4 Kuru 51
  5. 5 Dialect 50.1
  6. 6 CoinList 48.6
  7. 7 Walrus Protocol 47.9
  8. 8 Radicle 47.3
  9. 9 SF Compute 47
  10. 10 Ava Protocol 46.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Fordefi 36.4
  2. 2 Kraken 36.1
  3. 3 Mysten Labs 34.5
  4. 4 Dialect 34.2
  5. 5 Boost 34.2
  6. 6 Nestcoin 32.5
  7. 7 Kuru 32.4
  8. 8 Re 32.3
  9. 9 Ava Protocol 32.2
  10. 10 CoinList 31.5
This roster declares 79 members; 78 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 78 carry a score (100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 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: electric-capital
name: Electric Capital
description: >-
  Electric Capital is an engineering-led venture capital firm founded in 2018 and
  headquartered in Palo Alto, California, investing in founders building frontier
  technologies across crypto, cryptography, distributed systems, and AI. The firm
  backs user-owned technology and cryptographic infrastructure that reduces reliance
  on intermediaries and gives users control, privacy, and access. Electric Capital
  invests from pre-seed through growth, with typical checks ranging from roughly
  $1M to $15M+, and has deployed more than $3B since inception across multiple funds
  (including a $1B raise announced in 2022). Its portfolio spans DeFi, layer-1 and
  layer-2 infrastructure, exchanges, developer tools, security, identity, and select
  AI, fintech, healthcare, and deep-tech companies, with notable investments including
  Solana, Kraken, EigenLayer/EigenCloud, dYdX, Magic Eden, Sui/Mysten Labs, NEAR,
  Consensys, and Aave. The firm is also known for authoring the widely cited annual
  Electric Capital Developer Report.
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://www.electriccapital.com/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Growth
  - Crypto
  - Web3
  - DeFi
  - Blockchain Infrastructure
  - Developer Tools
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - North America
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Growth
  - Crypto
  - Web3
  - DeFi
  - Blockchain Infrastructure
  - Developer Tools
  - AI
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/investments/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/electric-capital-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/team/
  - type: Team
    url: team/electric-capital-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/content/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/content/
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://electriccapital.substack.com/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.electriccapital.com/jobs
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/contact/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/electric-capital
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electric-capital
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/electriccapital
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/electric-capital
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Growth'
      - 'Typical check: $1M-$15M+'
      - 'Sectors: crypto, cryptography, distributed systems, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, AI, fintech, healthcare'
      - 'Geography: primarily North America, global'
      - 'Total invested: $3B+ since inception'
      - 'Fund: $1B raised (announced 2022)'
      - 'Founded: 2018'
      - 'HQ: Palo Alto, California'
    sources:
      - https://www.electriccapital.com/
      - https://www.electriccapital.com/investments/
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: https://apisjson.org
  - FN: Electric Capital
    url: https://www.electriccapital.com/

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