Venture Capital

Trinity Ventures

Trinity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with more than three decades of history backing mission-driven entrepreneurs across technology and consumer markets. The firm takes a deliberately personal, low-capital-to-partner approach to early-stage investing, positioning itself as "the call you want to make, not the call you have to make" and emphasizing intellectual candor and lasting founder relationships. Trinity invests primarily at seed, Series A and Series B, with checks generally ranging from roughly $1 million to $15 million and averaging around $5 million. Its focus spans enterprise software and cloud infrastructure, developer tools, fintech, digital media and marketing technology, consumer products and services, healthcare, and artificial intelligence. Over nine funds the firm has managed on the order of $1.3 billion in assets and produced a track record that includes multiple unicorns, IPOs and roughly 130 acquisitions. Notable investments include Starbucks, New Relic, Auth0, Turo, Care.com, Zulily, Blue Nile, Aruba Networks, Infoblox, Cohesity, Outreach, InfluxData, Contentful and Docker. Trinity invests primarily in the United States.

111 portfolio companies 111 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries ASeries BEnterprise SoftwareDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureFintechArtificial IntelligenceUnited States
Portfolio Strength across 33 profiled portfolio companies on the network
7 top-rated API companies 5 exemplar · 2 strong
12 agent-ready companies 1 agent-native · 11 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 38.6
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 25.2

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.

Trinity Ventures has 111 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 33 (30%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 78 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are BirdEye, New Relic, Outreach, Auth0, Cohesity.

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 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

Properties

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Team

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Firm

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Cohort brief

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The 70 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Trinity Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
70
of 111 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
25
+0.6 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
13.4
+0.7 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
2.6–75
median 16.5 · σ 19.2
How the 70 split by band
Exemplar 5Strong 2Developing 9Thin 12Emerging 21Minimal 21
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 31.7 27.2 +4.5 70
Operational Transparency 16.3 14.4 +1.9 70
Developer Ergonomics 24.1 23.8 +0.3 70
Contract Quality 20.3 20.4 -0.1 70
Contract Governance 5.6 6.6 -1 70
Discoverability 60 61.5 -1.5 70

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) 15% 11% +4
MCP server (first-party) 16% 13% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 12% 12% 0
Security 80% 96% -16
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 7% 13% -6

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 Birdeye 75
  2. 2 Microsoft Azure 73.3
  3. 3 Outreach 73.2
  4. 4 Auth0 67.9
  5. 5 Cohesity 66.5
  6. 6 InfluxData 58.6
  7. 7 Funnel 55.8
  8. 8 Infoblox 49.1
  9. 9 Brocade 45.2
  10. 10 MileIQ 44.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Birdeye 63.3
  2. 2 Contentful 60.8
  3. 3 Outreach 54.4
  4. 4 Funnel 50.9
  5. 5 Microsoft Azure 48.4
  6. 6 Pipefy 47.1
  7. 7 Cohesity 44.2
  8. 8 MileIQ 39.8
  9. 9 Auth0 37.9
  10. 10 VTS 37.2
This roster declares 111 members; 110 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 70 carry a score (64%). 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: trinity-ventures
name: Trinity Ventures
description: >-
  Trinity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1986 and
  headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with more than three decades of
  history backing mission-driven entrepreneurs across technology and consumer
  markets. The firm takes a deliberately personal, low-capital-to-partner
  approach to early-stage investing, positioning itself as "the call you want to
  make, not the call you have to make" and emphasizing intellectual candor and
  lasting founder relationships. Trinity invests primarily at seed, Series A and
  Series B, with checks generally ranging from roughly $1 million to $15 million
  and averaging around $5 million. Its focus spans enterprise software and cloud
  infrastructure, developer tools, fintech, digital media and marketing
  technology, consumer products and services, healthcare, and artificial
  intelligence. Over nine funds the firm has managed on the order of $1.3 billion
  in assets and produced a track record that includes multiple unicorns, IPOs and
  roughly 130 acquisitions. Notable investments include Starbucks, New Relic,
  Auth0, Turo, Care.com, Zulily, Blue Nile, Aruba Networks, Infoblox, Cohesity,
  Outreach, InfluxData, Contentful and Docker. Trinity invests primarily in the
  United States.
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.trinityventures.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Series A
  - Series B
  - Enterprise Software
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - United States
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/about
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/portfolio
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/trinity-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/trinity-ventures-team.yml
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.trinityventures.com/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/contact
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-ventures
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trinity-ventures
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Seed, Series A, Series B (early-stage)'
      - 'Typical check: approximately $1M-$15M, averaging around $5M'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, fintech, digital media, marketing technology, consumer, healthcare, AI'
      - 'Geography: United States (primary)'
      - 'AUM: approximately $1.3 billion across nine funds (self-reported / third-party)'
      - 'Founded: 1986'
      - 'HQ: Menlo Park, CA'
      - 'Track record: multiple unicorns, 8 IPOs, roughly 130 acquisitions'
    sources:
      - https://www.trinityventures.com/about
      - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trinity-ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Trinity Ventures
    url: https://www.trinityventures.com/

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