Venture Capital

GV

GV (formerly Google Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, founded in 2009 by Bill Maris and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with additional offices in New York, Cambridge, and London. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, GV operates with the reliability of a single LP, the autonomy of a traditional venture firm, and deep technical expertise, investing from seed through growth stage across technology and life sciences. Its focus areas span AI, enterprise, consumer, frontier tech, and life sciences, with a heavy recent emphasis on the AI frontier, from applications and developer tools to infrastructure and healthcare. GV manages over $13 billion in assets and supports roughly 400 active portfolio companies across North America, Europe, and Israel. The firm has backed notable companies including Uber, Slack, GitLab, Nest, Flatiron Health, Lemonade, Vercel, Isomorphic Labs, and insitro, with a track record of more than 80 IPOs and 230+ M&A exits.

657 portfolio companies 655 publish APIs here 12 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries AGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceLife SciencesEnterpriseDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureHealthcareFrontier TechNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 189 profiled portfolio companies on the network
29 top-rated API companies 13 exemplar · 16 strong
67 agent-ready companies 8 agent-native · 59 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 39.6
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 25.0

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.

GV has 657 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 189 (29%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 466 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, HubSpot *, Harness, Optimizely, Bugsnag *.

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 13 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 16 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 64 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 65 Limited public surface area
Emerging 26 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface

Rest of Portfolio

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

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Cohort brief

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The 526 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by GV, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
526
of 655 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
20.7
-3.7 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
9.4
-3.3 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.6–87.9
median 12.9 · σ 17.9
How the 526 split by band
Exemplar 13Strong 16Developing 65Thin 69Emerging 137Minimal 226
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 25.5 27.2 -1.7 526
Contract Governance 4.6 6.6 -2 526
Operational Transparency 12.1 14.4 -2.3 526
Discoverability 58.5 61.5 -3 526
Developer Ergonomics 19 23.8 -4.8 526
Contract Quality 15.1 20.4 -5.3 526

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) 9% 11% -2
MCP server (first-party) 12% 13% -1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 10% 12% -2
Security 95% 96% -1
Arazzo workflows 1% 2% -1
Governance rules 9% 13% -4

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 Stripe 87.9
  2. 2 HubSpot 87.5
  3. 3 Harness 86.2
  4. 4 Optimizely 78
  5. 5 Bugsnag 75.7
  6. 6 GitLab 72
  7. 7 Plaid 71.6
  8. 8 Snyk 71.6
  9. 9 Docusign 68.9
  10. 10 Cloudera 68.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Harness 66.7
  2. 2 Scope3 65.8
  3. 3 Optimizely 62.5
  4. 4 Stripe 58.3
  5. 5 Chronosphere 56.6
  6. 6 PostHog 55.7
  7. 7 Ripple Labs 51.8
  8. 8 Kensho 51.1
  9. 9 HubSpot 50.7
  10. 10 GoCardless 50.3
This roster declares 655 members; 624 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 526 carry a score (84%). 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.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: gv
name: GV
description: >-
  GV (formerly Google Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, founded in 2009 by Bill Maris and
  headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with additional offices in New York, Cambridge, and London.
  With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, GV operates with the reliability of a single LP, the autonomy of
  a traditional venture firm, and deep technical expertise, investing from seed through growth stage across
  technology and life sciences. Its focus areas span AI, enterprise, consumer, frontier tech, and life
  sciences, with a heavy recent emphasis on the AI frontier, from applications and developer tools to
  infrastructure and healthcare. GV manages over $13 billion in assets and supports roughly 400 active
  portfolio companies across North America, Europe, and Israel. The firm has backed notable companies
  including Uber, Slack, GitLab, Nest, Flatiron Health, Lemonade, Vercel, Isomorphic Labs, and insitro,
  with a track record of more than 80 IPOs and 230+ M&A exits.
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.gv.com/favicon.png
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Growth Equity
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Life Sciences
  - Enterprise
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Healthcare
  - Frontier Tech
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.gv.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.gv.com/portfolio
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/gv-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.gv.com/team?team=investing-team
  - type: Team
    url: team/gv-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.gv.com/about
  - type: News
    url: https://www.gv.com/news
  - type: News
    url: https://www.gv.com/press
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.gv.com
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google-ventures
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gvteam/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://www.twitter.com/gvteam
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Seed, Venture (Series A+), Growth"
      - "Sectors: AI, Enterprise, Consumer, Frontier Tech, Life Sciences"
      - "Geography: North America, Europe, Israel"
      - "AUM: $13B+ (self-reported)"
      - "Portfolio: ~400 active portfolio companies"
      - "Limited Partner: Alphabet (sole LP)"
      - "Exits: 80+ IPOs, 230+ M&A"
      - "Founded: 2009"
      - "HQ: San Francisco Bay Area (offices in New York, Cambridge, London)"
    sources:
      - https://www.gv.com/about
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GV_(company)
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: GV
    url: https://www.gv.com/

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