Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures is a global software venture capital firm that partners with expansion-stage enterprise technology companies it believes can become category leaders. Originally founded in 1996 as the venture arm of SAP, the firm spun out as an independent company in 2011 and rebranded to Sapphire Ventures in 2014. Sapphire manages over $10 billion in assets under management and typically invests Series B through IPO, with check sizes commonly ranging from roughly $2M to $30M, while its Sapphire Sport and Sapphire Partners arms address early-stage sports/media and fund investing respectively. The firm concentrates on Enterprise AI and B2B software, including data and analytics, cybersecurity, DevOps and developer tools, fintech, health tech, and vertical SaaS. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, New York, and London, Sapphire backs companies of consequence and supports them with a large platform team that drives executive talent and customer introductions. The portfolio spans 30+ IPOs and 80+ exits including DocuSign, Square, Wise, monday.com, JFrog, Auth0, MuleSoft, and LinkedIn.
Sapphire Ventures has 176 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 109 (62%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 67 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Outreach, Braze, CircleCI, DocuSign, Auth0.
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 14 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 24 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 35 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 24 Limited public surface area
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 161 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Sapphire Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 44.7 | 26.5 | +18.2 | 161 |
| Operational Transparency | 30.2 | 13.2 | +17 | 161 |
| Contract Quality | 29.7 | 17.7 | +12 | 161 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.2 | 23.8 | +11.4 | 161 |
| Discoverability | 64.6 | 58 | +6.6 | 161 |
| Contract Governance | 11.6 | 7 | +4.6 | 161 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 32% | 15% | +17 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 30% | 13% | +17 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 24% | 12% | +12 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 5% | 2% | +3 |
| Governance rules | 30% | 18% | +12 |
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.
- 1 Hightouch {"score" => 63.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 2 Clay {"score" => 60.5, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 3 WorkOS {"score" => 58.8, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 4 Anrok {"score" => 57.4, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 5 Braze {"score" => 56.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 6 Clari {"score" => 56.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 7 Huntress {"score" => 56.5, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 8 Contentful {"score" => 56.5, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 9 CircleCI {"score" => 56.1, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 10 6sense {"score" => 54.6, "band" => "agent-ready"}
Coverage caveat. 121 of 161 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.
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