Venture Capital

New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest and longest-running venture capital firms, founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich, Chuck Newhall, and Frank Bonsal. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Timonium (Maryland), New York, and London, NEA invests across the full company lifecycle — "from idea to IPO" — spanning seed, Series A, and later growth rounds. The firm has raised over $27 billion in committed capital (as of December 31, 2024) and organizes into specialized practice groups across two core sectors: technology (enterprise software, consumer, fintech, AI, infrastructure) and healthcare (biopharma, life sciences, digital health, and medical devices). NEA is known for an active, hands-on partnership model and long-term support of category-defining companies, with a portfolio that has produced many notable IPOs and acquisitions including Cloudflare, MongoDB, Robinhood, Coursera, Databricks, Plaid, and Tempus.

30 portfolio companies 30 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries AGrowthTechnologyHealthcareFintechArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareLife SciencesDigital HealthUnited States
Portfolio Strength across 30 profiled portfolio companies on the network
8 top-rated API companies 4 exemplar · 4 strong
12 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 8 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 31.5
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 22.0

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.

New Enterprise Associates has 30 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 30 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Plaid, Merge, Databricks, Cloudflare, Perplexity.

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 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Plaid 31 APIs 75.2 Merge 118 APIs 73.4 Databricks 57 APIs 72.2 Cloudflare 87 APIs 69.9
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Perplexity 12 APIs 64.3 Slash 26 APIs 62.4 Narmi 44 APIs 57.9 Ledge 2 APIs 56.6
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
MongoDB 53 APIs 49.8 Robinhood 5 APIs 47.4 Sana 10 APIs 46.9 Pulumi 35 APIs 45.5
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Curana Health 1 API 37.3 Patreon 2 APIs 37.0 Coursera 3 APIs 29.7
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
GoodLeap 20.2 Tempus 4 APIs 18.8 Kindred 15.3 Comprehensive Pharmacy Services 13.8 Fizz 13.0
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface
Escient Pharmaceuticals 11.6 Marathon Health 11.6 Strive Health 11.6 CRISPR Therapeutics 11.2 Pair Eyewear 10.5 MBX Biosciences 5.4 NeoTract 5.4 Radiology Partners 5.4 Trillium Therapeutics 4.3 InterMune 3.5

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Content

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The firm itself

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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description: >-
  New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest and longest-running
  venture capital firms, founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich, Chuck Newhall, and Frank
  Bonsal. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in Timonium (Maryland),
  New York, and London, NEA invests across the full company lifecycle — "from idea to
  IPO" — spanning seed, Series A, and later growth rounds. The firm has raised over
  $27 billion in committed capital (as of December 31, 2024) and organizes into
  specialized practice groups across two core sectors: technology (enterprise software,
  consumer, fintech, AI, infrastructure) and healthcare (biopharma, life sciences,
  digital health, and medical devices). NEA is known for an active, hands-on partnership
  model and long-term support of category-defining companies, with a portfolio that has
  produced many notable IPOs and acquisitions including Cloudflare, MongoDB, Robinhood,
  Coursera, Databricks, Plaid, and Tempus.
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      - 'Sectors: technology (enterprise software, consumer, fintech, AI, infrastructure) and healthcare (biopharma, life sciences, digital health, medical devices)'
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      - 'AUM: $27B+ committed capital (self-reported, as of Dec 31 2024)'
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