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Prosus Ventures

Prosus Ventures is the venture-capital arm of Prosus, the Amsterdam-headquartered global consumer-internet and technology group (part of the Naspers group), founded in 2015 to make early-stage and growth-stage technology investments in high-growth markets outside the United States and China. The firm invests to "fuel the ecommerce flywheel," backing companies across food delivery, fintech, consumer services, logistics, e-commerce and marketplaces, plus a strong and growing focus on early-stage AI startups that reshape the e-commerce value chain (shopping and advertising tech, customer support, AI agents and operations) and frontier technologies such as quantum computing, robotics, space and biotech. Prosus Ventures typically invests from seed through Series B and into growth rounds, with a primary geographic focus on India, Latin America and Europe, plus activity in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and ANZ. In fiscal year 2025 the group committed and invested over $400 million across 40+ closed transactions, including roughly $88 million into AI. Its public portfolio spans 80+ companies including Meesho, Urban Company, PharmEasy, Klar, ElasticRun, BandLab, Ema, Corti and Oxford Ionics. The venture team is led by CEO Martin Tschopp with regional heads across India, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

85 portfolio companies 85 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalCorporate VCSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthE-CommerceFintechArtificial IntelligenceMarketplaceFood DeliveryLogisticsIndiaLatin AmericaEuropeAmsterdam
Portfolio Strength across 23 profiled portfolio companies on the network
3 top-rated API companies 0 exemplar · 3 strong
8 agent-ready companies 1 agent-native · 7 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 35.9
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 21.3

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.

Prosus Ventures has 85 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 23 (27%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 62 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Corti, Fundamental Research Labs, Martian, Brainfish, SpotDraft.

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.

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

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Cohort brief

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The 78 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Prosus Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
78
of 85 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
18.5
-5.9 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
7.6
-5.1 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
3.3–61
median 12.2 · σ 15.8
How the 78 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 3Developing 8Thin 10Emerging 20Minimal 37
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Governance 5 6.6 -1.6 78
Discoverability 58.9 61.5 -2.6 78
Access Clarity 22.7 27.2 -4.5 78
Developer Ergonomics 18.4 23.8 -5.4 78
Operational Transparency 8.6 14.4 -5.8 78
Contract Quality 10.9 20.4 -9.5 78

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
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 9% 11% -2
MCP server (first-party) 9% 13% -4
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 3% 12% -9
Security 100% 96% +4
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 4% 13% -9

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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Corti 61
  2. 2 Fundamental Research Labs 60.1
  3. 3 Martian 55.3
  4. 4 Brainfish 52.5
  5. 5 SpotDraft 50.7
  6. 6 Airmeet 49
  7. 7 Zest Equity 47.4
  8. 8 Plerion 46.3
  9. 9 Onsi 44.1
  10. 10 Nexad 43.6
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Brainfish 62.1
  2. 2 Rain 39.4
  3. 3 Nexad 38.1
  4. 4 watchTowr 36.5
  5. 5 Zest Equity 36.4
  6. 6 Onsi 35.1
  7. 7 Corti 32.9
  8. 8 SpotDraft 30.9
  9. 9 Fundamental Research Labs 29.6
  10. 10 Plerion 27.2
This roster declares 85 members; 82 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 78 carry a score (95%). 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.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: prosus-ventures
name: Prosus Ventures
description: >-
  Prosus Ventures is the venture-capital arm of Prosus, the Amsterdam-headquartered global consumer-internet
  and technology group (part of the Naspers group), founded in 2015 to make early-stage and growth-stage
  technology investments in high-growth markets outside the United States and China. The firm invests to
  "fuel the ecommerce flywheel," backing companies across food delivery, fintech, consumer services,
  logistics, e-commerce and marketplaces, plus a strong and growing focus on early-stage AI startups that
  reshape the e-commerce value chain (shopping and advertising tech, customer support, AI agents and
  operations) and frontier technologies such as quantum computing, robotics, space and biotech. Prosus
  Ventures typically invests from seed through Series B and into growth rounds, with a primary geographic
  focus on India, Latin America and Europe, plus activity in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and ANZ. In
  fiscal year 2025 the group committed and invested over $400 million across 40+ closed transactions,
  including roughly $88 million into AI. Its public portfolio spans 80+ companies including Meesho, Urban
  Company, PharmEasy, Klar, ElasticRun, BandLab, Ema, Corti and Oxford Ionics. The venture team is led by
  CEO Martin Tschopp with regional heads across India, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
deliveryModel:
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  confidence: low
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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  label: Unknown
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image: https://www.prosus.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Corporate VC
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Corporate VC
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Series B
  - Growth
  - E-Commerce
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Marketplace
  - Food Delivery
  - Logistics
  - India
  - Latin America
  - Europe
  - Amsterdam
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Corporate VC
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Series B
  - Growth
  - Ecommerce
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Marketplaces
  - Food Delivery
  - Logistics
  - India
  - Latin America
  - Europe
  - Amsterdam
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.prosus.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.prosus.com/prosus-ventures
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/prosus-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: team/prosus-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.prosus.com/prosus-ventures
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.prosus.com/our-insights
  - type: News
    url: https://www.prosus.com/our-insights
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.eu.lever.co/prosus
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/prosus-ventures
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosus
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Seed through Series B and growth"
      - "Sectors: ecommerce & marketplaces, fintech, food delivery & logistics, consumer services, AI, frontier tech (quantum, robotics, space, biotech)"
      - "Geography: India, Latin America, Europe (plus SE Asia, Middle East, ANZ)"
      - "FY2025 deployment: $400M+ across 40+ transactions, ~$88M into AI (self-reported)"
      - "Portfolio: 80+ public companies"
      - "Founded: 2015"
      - "HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands"
      - "Parent: Prosus / Naspers"
    sources:
      - https://www.prosus.com/prosus-ventures
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosus
      - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/prosus-ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Prosus Ventures
    url: https://www.prosus.com/prosus-ventures

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