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 ToolsAINorth America
Portfolio Strength across 79 profiled portfolio companies on the network
2 top-rated API companies 2 exemplar · 0 strong
20 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 17 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 28.5
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 18.0

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 Solana, Kraken, Fordefi, Magic Eden, Hibachi.

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 22 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Emerging 28 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 15 Almost no public developer surface

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Team

Partners and investing staff

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

Firm

The firm itself

Other

Everything else declared in apis.yml

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.
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x-category: Venture Capital
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  onboarding: unknown
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://www.electriccapital.com/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
  - 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/