Homebrew
Homebrew is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Hunter Walk (a former product leader at Google and YouTube) and Satya Patel (a former VP of Product at Twitter, partner at Battery Ventures, and product leader at Google). Named after the Homebrew Computer Club, the firm practices high-conviction, concentrated seed investing, taking board-level positions and acting as an extension of the founder's team. Roughly 90% of its investments are pre-seed and seed, with initial checks in the $100K-$500K range and the ability to follow on up to $25M+ in later rounds. Homebrew backs mission-driven founders working on large, urgent, and valuable problems across fintech, AI/ML, healthcare, climate, defense, logistics, real estate, and consumer, focused on companies operating in the Americas. After a decade of institutional funds that backed companies such as Chime, Plaid, Gusto, and Mercury, Homebrew announced in 2021 that it would stop raising outside LP capital and invest only its own money going forward under the banner "Homebrew Forever."
Homebrew has 103 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 103 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Regal, Plaid, Finix, Scrunch AI, Warp.
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.
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 18 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Emerging 32 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 31 Almost no public developer surface
Properties
Portfolio
Where the firm publishes its investments
Firm
The firm itself
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 100 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Homebrew, 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 | 29 | 22.3 | +6.7 | 100 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.8 | 17.9 | +3.9 | 100 |
| Contract Quality | 20 | 17.5 | +2.5 | 100 |
| Discoverability | 61.6 | 60.4 | +1.2 | 100 |
| Contract Governance | 7.3 | 6.4 | +0.9 | 100 |
| Operational Transparency | 11.2 | 11.3 | -0.1 | 100 |
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) | 27% | 16% | +11 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 12% | 7% | +5 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 8% | 9% | -1 |
| Security | 97% | 88% | +9 |
| Arazzo workflows | 3% | 2% | +1 |
| 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.
- 1 Regal 79.6
- 2 Plaid 68.2
- 3 Finix Payments 65.8
- 4 Scrunch AI 61
- 5 Color 54.1
- 6 Airweave 53.7
- 7 Sweep 52.9
- 8 Warp 52.8
- 9 Goethena 51.7
- 10 Windfall Data 51.2
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