QED Investors is a global venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman, both early leaders at Capital One, and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. QED invests exclusively in fintech and financial-services technology, backing what it calls "pragmatic disruptors who are the future of finance" across credit and lending, banking and neobanks, banking-as-a-service and embedded finance, payments, insurance/insurtech, wealth management, proptech, and real-estate technology. The firm invests from pre-seed and seed through Series A and growth stages, with early-stage initial checks generally in the $3M-$10M range (roughly $15M average once follow-on is included) and $15M-$20M average from its growth fund. QED operates globally with investment teams across the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia/India, and Africa, and offices in Alexandria (VA), London, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil. It reports roughly $4B in assets under management, more than 250 portfolio companies, and over 30 unicorns, with notable investments including Nubank, Credit Karma, SoFi, Klarna, Remitly, Flywire, Klarna, Kavak, Creditas, and Bitso.
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.
QED Investors has 160 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 160 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Klarna, Astrada, Payabli, Weavr, Ntropy.
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.
Exemplar1Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 157 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
QED Investors, 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)
22%
16%
+6
MCP server (first-party)
10%
7%
+3
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
6%
9%
-3
Security
97%
88%
+9
Arazzo workflows
2%
2%
0
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.
This roster declares 160 members; 157
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 157 carry a score
(100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
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.
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QED Investors is a global venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Nigel Morris and Frank Rotman,
both early leaders at Capital One, and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. QED invests
exclusively in fintech and financial-services technology, backing what it calls "pragmatic
disruptors who are the future of finance" across credit and lending, banking and neobanks,
banking-as-a-service and embedded finance, payments, insurance/insurtech, wealth management,
proptech, and real-estate technology. The firm invests from pre-seed and seed through Series A and
growth stages, with early-stage initial checks generally in the $3M-$10M range (roughly $15M
average once follow-on is included) and $15M-$20M average from its growth fund. QED operates
globally with investment teams across the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia/India, and
Africa, and offices in Alexandria (VA), London, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil. It reports roughly
$4B in assets under management, more than 250 portfolio companies, and over 30 unicorns, with
notable investments including Nubank, Credit Karma, SoFi, Klarna, Remitly, Flywire, Klarna,
Kavak, Creditas, and Bitso.
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