Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software-focused venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. The firm invests in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies at every stage from early (Series A) through growth and late-stage pre-IPO, deploying checks that range from roughly $5M up to $500M+ and pairing capital with a dedicated in-house operations team (Insight Onsite) that provides talent, sales, marketing, and product expertise to accelerate scaling. Sector emphasis spans enterprise software broadly, including cybersecurity, fintech, AI/ML, DevOps, data infrastructure, and healthtech. With approximately $90B in regulatory assets under management as of 2025 and more than 875 companies backed worldwide, Insight is one of the largest technology investors in the world, with a portfolio and exit history that includes Twitter, Shopify, DocuSign, Wix, SentinelOne, HelloFresh, N26, Alteryx, and AppDynamics.
The largest growth-equity API book after a16z, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the estate that discovers best is the one least ready for agents.
Insight Partners has 796 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 796 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Rudderstack, OpenAI, Anthropic, Qonto, Optimizely.
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 11 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 40 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 130 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 118 Limited public surface area
Emerging 208 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 286 Almost no public developer surface
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 793 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Insight Partners, 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 | 26.8 | 22.3 | +4.5 | 793 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 22.2 | 17.9 | +4.3 | 793 |
| Operational Transparency | 13 | 11.3 | +1.7 | 793 |
| Discoverability | 61.7 | 60.4 | +1.3 | 793 |
| Contract Governance | 7.5 | 6.4 | +1.1 | 793 |
| Contract Quality | 17 | 17.5 | -0.5 | 793 |
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) | 21% | 16% | +5 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 10% | 7% | +3 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 10% | 9% | +1 |
| Security | 91% | 88% | +3 |
| Arazzo workflows | 2% | 2% | 0 |
| Governance rules | 10% | 13% | -3 |
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 RudderStack 80.2
- 2 Optimizely 75.1
- 3 Qonto 74.6
- 4 6sense 73.1
- 5 Explorium 69.9
- 6 New Relic 68.8
- 7 Anthropic 68.6
- 8 Showpad 66.2
- 9 Finix Payments 65.8
- 10 Valimail 64.6
- 1 Explorium 59.9
- 2 Knak 58.8
- 3 Frame.io 54.9
- 4 Lytx 54.5
- 5 Fastino Labs 54.2
- 6 UserTesting 53
- 7 Wallapop 52.7
- 8 RudderStack 52
- 9 Jasper 51.5
- 10 LawVu 51.5
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