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.
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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The firm itself
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 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.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- 1 Harness 66.7
- 2 Scope3 65.8
- 3 Optimizely 62.5
- 4 Stripe 58.3
- 5 Chronosphere 56.6
- 6 PostHog 55.7
- 7 Ripple Labs 51.8
- 8 Kensho 51.1
- 9 HubSpot 50.7
- 10 GoCardless 50.3
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