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.
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 95 (62%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 58 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Harness, Anthropic, GitHub, Klarna, Attentive.
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.
Exemplar7Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 136 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Institutional Venture Partners, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
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
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
21%
11%
+10
MCP server (first-party)
27%
13%
+14
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
24%
12%
+12
Security
99%
96%
+3
Arazzo workflows
9%
2%
+7
Governance rules
28%
13%
+15
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.
This roster declares 153 members; 142
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 136 carry a score
(96%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
22 September 2026, across 27674
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.
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
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://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: '0.23'
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
url: https://www.ivp.com/
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