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.
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 916 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 209 (23%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 338 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Salesforce.com, Plaid, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, MongoDB.
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.
Exemplar24Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 362 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
New Enterprise Associates, 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)
20%
15%
+5
MCP server (first-party)
18%
13%
+5
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
19%
12%
+7
Security
98%
98%
0
Arazzo workflows
4%
2%
+2
Governance rules
19%
18%
+1
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 547 members; 539
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 362 carry a score
(67%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 309 of 362 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
2 November 2026, across 37080
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: nea
name: New Enterprise Associates
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.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
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://www.nea.com/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Fintech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Enterprise Software
- Life Sciences
- Digital Health
- United States
apis: []
common:
- url: https://www.nea.com/feed
type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
url: https://www.nea.com
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.nea.com/portfolio
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.nea.com/portfolio/nea-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://www.nea.com/team
- type: Team
url: https://www.nea.com/team/nea-team.yml
- type: InvestmentThesis
url: https://www.nea.com/about
- type: Blog
url: https://www.nea.com/blog
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-enterprise-associates
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/NEA
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/new-enterprise-associates
- type: Features
data:
- 'Stage: Seed, Series A, Growth (idea to IPO)'
- 'Sectors: technology (enterprise software, consumer, fintech, AI, infrastructure) and healthcare (biopharma, life sciences, digital health, medical devices)'
- 'Geography: United States (Menlo Park, Timonium, New York) and Europe (London)'
- 'AUM: $27B+ committed capital (self-reported, as of Dec 31 2024)'
- 'Founded: 1977'
- 'HQ: Menlo Park, CA'
sources:
- https://www.nea.com/about
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Enterprise_Associates
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: New Enterprise Associates
url: https://www.nea.com
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