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 656 publish APIs here 12 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries AGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceLife SciencesEnterpriseDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureHealthcareFrontier TechNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 192 profiled portfolio companies on the network
45 top-rated API companies 19 exemplar · 26 strong
89 agent-ready companies 11 agent-native · 78 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 41.3
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 27.3

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 192 (29%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 464 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

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

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 19 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 26 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 52 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 57 Limited public surface area
Ambition3 APIs39.2Driver1 API38.5Veem1 published contract37.9FlutterFlow1 API37.8Cognosys *1 published contract37.5Gusto1 published contract37.2Snorkel AI1 published contract37.2FullStory3 published contracts37.1Rocket Lawyer4 published contracts37.0Sync Labs1 published contract36.5Medium2 published contracts36.2Clever Care1 published contract36.0Lattice *2 published contracts36.0Poynt *1 API36.0Blockaid1 published contract35.7Dapper Labs1 published contract35.7Incorta1 API35.5mabl2 published contracts35.4Phoebe2 APIs35.3Beamable4 published contracts34.5Lime *1 published contract34.1Upbound1 published contract33.7Doppler1 published contract33.5Courier1 published contract33.4Parsable1 API33.3Redpanda10 APIs33.2Adapter1 published contract32.9Duo Security *1 published contract32.9LedgerX *2 APIs32.8MirrorTab1 published contract32.7EasyPost1 published contract32.4Infinitus1 API31.9Cosmos1 published contract30.9Apptimize *1 published contract30.8Deepset5 published contracts30.7Desmos1 API30.7Synthesia1 published contract30.7Granular *1 published contract30.6Unbabel1 published contract30.2Checkr1 published contract30.1Abacus *3 APIs30.0CacheFlow *2 published contracts29.8Stamped *2 published contracts29.8Pangea1 published contract29.7Clarifai *1 published contract29.3Dialpad1 published contract29.1Yieldmo1 published contract29.1Nectar Social2 APIs28.9Nextdoor *1 published contract28.5Reaction Commerce *1 API28.5Egnyte1 published contract28.3Instawork1 API28.3Guild.ai1 API28.2Scandit2 APIs27.4Blacksmith1 published contract27.1NoRedInk1 API27.0SideQuest1 published contract26.9
Emerging 35 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

Rest of Portfolio

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

Makani *

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Cohort brief

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The 529 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
529
of 656 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
even vs catalog
Mean Agent Readiness
10.4
-2.4 vs catalog 12.8
Spread
–
median · σ
How the 529 split by band
Exemplar 19Strong 26Developing 53Thin 60Emerging 139Minimal 232
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 26.3 26.5 -0.2 529
Operational Transparency 12.9 13.2 -0.3 529
Discoverability 56.1 58 -1.9 529
Contract Governance 5 7 -2 529
Contract Quality 14.2 17.7 -3.5 529
Developer Ergonomics 20.2 23.8 -3.6 529

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) 15% 15% 0
MCP server (first-party) 14% 13% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 12% 12% 0
Security 98% 98% 0
Arazzo workflows 1% 2% -1
Governance rules 11% 18% -7

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 HubSpot
  2. 2 Harness
  3. 3 Plaid
  4. 4 Stripe
  5. 5 GitLab
  6. 6 Snyk
  7. 7 Optimizely
  8. 8 Bugsnag
  9. 9 ThousandEyes
  10. 10 Slack
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Scope3 {"score" => 64.3, "band" => "agent-native"}
  2. 2 Harness {"score" => 63.2, "band" => "agent-native"}
  3. 3 Optimizely {"score" => 62.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
  4. 4 Recorded Future {"score" => 58.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
  5. 5 Stripe {"score" => 58.5, "band" => "agent-native"}
  6. 6 PostHog {"score" => 57.3, "band" => "agent-ready"}
  7. 7 Chronosphere {"score" => 55.4, "band" => "agent-native"}
  8. 8 ThousandEyes {"score" => 55.3, "band" => "agent-ready"}
  9. 9 Bugsnag {"score" => 53.1, "band" => "agent-ready"}
  10. 10 Roboflow {"score" => 52.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
This roster declares 656 members; 648 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 529 carry a score (82%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 478 of 529 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 2 November 2026, across 37080 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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