Growth Equity

Institutional Venture Partners

Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a later-stage venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1980 by Reid Dennis and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in San Francisco and London. One of the oldest venture firms in Silicon Valley, IVP concentrates on the fastest-growing, most prominent late-stage and growth-stage technology companies each year, typically writing checks in the $10M to $100M range and taking a long-term view toward value creation. The firm invests across enterprise software and SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, developer tools and cloud infrastructure, data and AI, consumer internet, media, gaming, and healthcare. Across roughly 45 years and 18 funds (Fund XVIII closed at $1.6B in 2024) IVP has backed more than 400 companies and seen 135+ IPOs, with roughly $7B–$8B in assets under management. Notable investments and exits include Netflix, Twitter, Snap, Coinbase, Dropbox, GitHub, Slack, Datadog, CrowdStrike, HashiCorp, UiPath, Robinhood, Klarna, Wise, Figma, Grammarly, Rubrik, Discord, Anthropic, Perplexity, and DeepL.

153 portfolio companies 153 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalGrowth EquityLate StageEnterprise SoftwareFintechCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsArtificial IntelligenceConsumer InternetSilicon Valley
Portfolio Strength across 153 profiled portfolio companies on the network
23 top-rated API companies 9 exemplar · 14 strong
41 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 39 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 32.4
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 20.4

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.

Institutional Venture Partners has 153 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 153 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Figma, UiPath, Anthropic, Mulesoft, GitHub.

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 9 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 32 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 26 Limited public surface area
Emerging 39 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 33 Almost no public developer surface

Properties

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Team

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Content

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Firm

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: ivp
name: Institutional Venture Partners
description: >-
  Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a later-stage venture capital and
  growth equity firm founded in 1980 by Reid Dennis and headquartered in Menlo
  Park, California, with offices in San Francisco and London. One of the oldest
  venture firms in Silicon Valley, IVP concentrates on the fastest-growing,
  most prominent late-stage and growth-stage technology companies each year,
  typically writing checks in the $10M to $100M range and taking a long-term
  view toward value creation. The firm invests across enterprise software and
  SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, developer tools and cloud infrastructure,
  data and AI, consumer internet, media, gaming, and healthcare. Across roughly
  45 years and 18 funds (Fund XVIII closed at $1.6B in 2024) IVP has backed
  more than 400 companies and seen 135+ IPOs, with roughly $7B–$8B in assets
  under management. Notable investments and exits include Netflix, Twitter,
  Snap, Coinbase, Dropbox, GitHub, Slack, Datadog, CrowdStrike, HashiCorp,
  UiPath, Robinhood, Klarna, Wise, Figma, Grammarly, Rubrik, Discord,
  Anthropic, Perplexity, and DeepL.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Growth Equity
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
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  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ivp.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ivp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Growth Equity
  - Late Stage
  - Enterprise Software
  - Fintech
  - Cybersecurity
  - Developer Tools
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Consumer Internet
  - Silicon Valley
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ivp.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.ivp.com/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/ivp-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.ivp.com/team/
  - type: Team
    url: team/ivp-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.ivp.com/team/approach/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.ivp.com/content/
  - type: News
    url: https://www.ivp.com/content/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://careers.ivp.com/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.ivp.com/contact/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/institutional-venture-partners
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ivpvc/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/ivp
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Late-stage / growth (venture growth, founder liquidity, select public-market)'
      - 'Typical check: $10M–$100M per company'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise software/SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, developer tools, cloud/data infrastructure, AI, consumer internet, media, gaming, healthcare'
      - 'Geography: United States and Europe (HQ US; London office since 2023)'
      - 'AUM: ~$7B–$8B (self-reported / third-party sources)'
      - 'Funds: 18 funds; Fund XVI $1.5B (2017), Fund XVII $1.8B (2021), Fund XVIII $1.6B (2024)'
      - 'Track record: 400+ portfolio companies, 135+ IPOs'
      - 'Founded: 1980'
      - 'Founder: Reid Dennis'
      - 'HQ: Menlo Park, California (offices in San Francisco and London)'
    sources:
      - https://www.ivp.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Venture_Partners
      - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/institutional-venture-partners
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Institutional Venture Partners
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