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 44 profiled portfolio companies on the network
2 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 1 strong
12 agent-ready companies 0 agent-native · 12 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 33.9
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 19.6

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.

Electric Capital has 79 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 44 (56%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 35 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

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 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Kraken24 APIs68.0
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solana1 published contract65.9
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Fordefi2 published contracts53.3Kuru2 published contracts47.0Dialect6 published contracts45.8Walrus Protocol2 published contracts44.8Radicle1 published contract44.1Ava Protocol1 published contract43.6Jito Labs2 published contracts43.2SF Compute1 published contract43.2Bullet1 published contract43.1CoinList1 published contract43.0Mysten Labs3 APIs42.9Hyperbeat1 published contract41.3LegendTrade1 published contract40.7Consensys1 API40.6
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Squads2 APIs39.2Bitnomial2 APIs38.9Re1 published contract38.7Nestcoin1 published contract38.5Hibachi1 published contract38.0Boost2 published contracts37.1HealthEx1 API37.1Pendle2 published contracts36.7Espresso1 API35.3Monad1 published contract33.9Unto Labs2 APIs31.2Wasabi4 APIs30.9Sui1 published contract30.8Curve1 published contract28.1Privy1 published contract27.9Immunefi1 API27.0Iron Fish1 API27.0Hashflow2 APIs26.6
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
NEAR7 published contracts25.9Bitwise1 API24.5OpenBlock Labs1 API23.5Aave8 APIs21.8SpruceID1 published contract20.6Membrane1 API20.5Clusters1 published contract19.9EigenCloud5 APIs18.5dYdX1 API16.0Fluid1 API14.1

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Portfolio
Portfolio
 InvestmentThesis
InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team
Team
 Team
Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

Blog
Blog
 Newsletter
Newsletter

Firm

The firm itself

Website
Website
 Jobs
Jobs
 Contact
Contact
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Other

Everything else declared in apis.yml

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 77 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
77
of 79 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
25
+2.1 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
12.7
+0.7 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–68
median 21.8 · σ 15.5
How the 77 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 1Developing 14Thin 19Emerging 23Minimal 19
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 38.5 23.1 +15.4 77
Discoverability 62 58.2 +3.8 77
Operational Transparency 15 13.6 +1.4 77
Contract Quality 18.1 17.6 +0.5 77
Contract Governance 4.7 6.3 -1.6 77
Access Clarity 21.4 26.4 -5 77

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) 21% 15% +6
MCP server (first-party) 18% 12% +6
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 4% 11% -7
Security 99% 98% +1
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 68
  2. 2 Solana 65.9
  3. 3 Fordefi 53.3
  4. 4 Kuru 47
  5. 5 Dialect 45.8
  6. 6 Walrus Protocol 44.8
  7. 7 Radicle 44.1
  8. 8 Ava Protocol 43.6
  9. 9 SF Compute 43.2
  10. 10 Bullet 43.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Mysten Labs 48.6
  2. 2 Fordefi 36.4
  3. 3 Dialect 34.2
  4. 4 Kraken 34
  5. 5 Ava Protocol 33.9
  6. 6 Privy 33
  7. 7 Nestcoin 32.5
  8. 8 Boost 31.7
  9. 9 CoinList 31.5
  10. 10 Re 31.3
This roster declares 79 members; 77 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 77 carry a score (100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 70 of 77 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 3 October 2026, across 28834 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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