Venture Capital

Thrive Capital

Thrive Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner and headquartered in the Puck Building in New York City. The firm builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies across the full lifecycle, from early-stage seed bets through growth and late-stage positions, and also incubates new companies through its Thrive Incubations program. Thrive concentrates its capital in a relatively small number of high-conviction positions across artificial intelligence, fintech, enterprise software, consumer internet, media and entertainment, healthcare, defense technology, and developer tools. The firm has scaled its funds steadily from a $5M first fund in 2009 to Thrive X, its tenth fund, which closed in early 2026 at over $10 billion (roughly $1B for early-stage and $9B for growth), bringing the firm to approximately $50 billion in assets under management. Nitin Nohria, the former dean of Harvard Business School, serves as executive chairman. Thrive is widely known as one of the earliest and most significant backers of OpenAI, Stripe, and SpaceX, and its portfolio includes Instagram, GitHub, Databricks, Ramp, Scale AI, Anduril, Robinhood, and Plaid.

45 portfolio companies 45 publish APIs here 7 properties

Venture Capital Seed Series A Growth Equity Artificial Intelligence Fintech Enterprise Consumer Developer Tools Healthcare New York North America

Portfolio Strength across 45 profiled portfolio companies on the network

9 top-rated API companies 3 exemplar · 6 strong

10 agent-ready companies 1 agent-native · 9 agent-ready

Average quality of the book:

Composite thin 32.2

Agent-Readiness agent-aware 17.3

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.

Thrive Capital has 45 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 45 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, OpenAI, Plaid, Slack, Airtable.

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 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Stripe48 APIs80.6 OpenAI15 APIs76.8 Plaid71 APIs68.7

Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Slack32 APIs64.7 Airtable3 APIs63.7 Instagram1 API61.9 GitHub38 APIs60.7 Databricks1 API58.6 Unity12 APIs56.5

Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Ramp1 API53.2 Twitch6 APIs52.1 Spotify1 API49.8 Scale AI1 API47.0 Spring3 APIs46.4 Robinhood1 API44.9 Monzo1 API42.6 Mapbox12 APIs42.5

Thin 11 Limited public surface area

Anysphere1 API38.6 Affirm5 APIs38.3 Cursor1 API35.3 Patreon1 API34.9 GroupMe1 API34.1 SpaceX1 API30.3 Lemonade1 API29.9 OpenGov21 APIs28.7 Greenhouse4 APIs27.3 Anduril Industries1 API26.9 Opendoor1 API26.7

Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented

Codecademy23.0 Artsy1 API21.7 Glossier1 API19.6 ClassPass2 APIs16.4 Nubank5 APIs15.6 Wiz1 API14.6 A2412.3 Kickstarter12.0

Minimal 9 Almost no public developer surface

Cadre10.5 Warby Parker7.5 Compass5.2 Fanatics5.0 Neverware5.0 Skims5.0 Hims & Hers3.9 Physical Intelligence3.1 Oscar Health1.7

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

InvestmentThesis

InvestmentThesis

Portfolio

Portfolio

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team

Team

Firm

The firm itself

Website

Website

Contact

Contact

Crunchbase

Crunchbase

LinkedIn

Cohort brief

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The 45 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Thrive Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

all scored

Mean Kin Score

31.7

+11.0 vs catalog 20.7

Mean Agent Readiness

17.2

+7.5 vs catalog 9.7

Spread

1.7–83.2

median 29.9 · σ 21.2

How the 45 split by band

Exemplar 2Strong 6Developing 9Thin 8Emerging 11Minimal 9

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Quality	36.2	17.5	+18.7	45
Operational Transparency	21.9	11.3	+10.6	45
Developer Ergonomics	28	17.9	+10.1	45
Access Clarity	29.8	22.3	+7.5	45
Contract Governance	12.1	6.4	+5.7	45
Discoverability	64.9	60.4	+4.5	45

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)	24%	16%	+8
MCP server (first-party)	4%	7%	-3
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	20%	9%	+11
Security	100%	88%	+12
Arazzo workflows	18%	2%	+16
Governance rules	40%	13%	+27

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 Stripe 83.2
2 Plaid 68.2
3 OpenAI 64.2
4 GitHub 62.4
5 Slack 62.3
6 Airtable 62.1
7 Databricks 59.1
8 Unity 58.2
9 Ramp 53
10 Robinhood 48

Source (apis.yml)

aid: thrive-capital
name: Thrive Capital
description: >-
  Thrive Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner and headquartered in the
  Puck Building in New York City. The firm builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled
  companies across the full lifecycle, from early-stage seed bets through growth and late-stage positions,
  and also incubates new companies through its Thrive Incubations program. Thrive concentrates its capital
  in a relatively small number of high-conviction positions across artificial intelligence, fintech,
  enterprise software, consumer internet, media and entertainment, healthcare, defense technology, and
  developer tools. The firm has scaled its funds steadily from a $5M first fund in 2009 to Thrive X, its
  tenth fund, which closed in early 2026 at over $10 billion (roughly $1B for early-stage and $9B for
  growth), bringing the firm to approximately $50 billion in assets under management. Nitin Nohria, the
  former dean of Harvard Business School, serves as executive chairman. Thrive is widely known as one of
  the earliest and most significant backers of OpenAI, Stripe, and SpaceX, and its portfolio includes
  Instagram, GitHub, Databricks, Ramp, Scale AI, Anduril, Robinhood, and Plaid.
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://thrivecap.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Growth Equity
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Fintech
  - Enterprise
  - Consumer
  - Developer Tools
  - Healthcare
  - New York
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://thrivecap.com/
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://thrivecap.com/incubations
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/thrive-capital-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: team/thrive-capital-team.yml
  - type: Contact
    url: https://thrivecap.com/contact
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/thrive-capital
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thrive-capital
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Early-stage (Seed / Series A), Growth, Late-stage"
      - "Sectors: AI, fintech, enterprise software, consumer internet, media/entertainment, healthcare, defense, developer tools"
      - "Geography: Primarily United States / global technology"
      - "AUM: ~$50B (as of 2026, self/press-reported)"
      - "Latest fund: Thrive X, over $10B closed early 2026 (~$1B early-stage / ~$9B growth)"
      - "Founded: 2009"
      - "HQ: Puck Building, New York City, USA"
    sources:
      - https://thrivecap.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrive_Capital
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Thrive Capital
    url: https://thrivecap.com/

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