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.
Trinity Ventures has 111 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 111 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are BirdEye, Outreach, New Relic, Auth0, Funnel.
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.
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Emerging 23 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 61 Almost no public developer surface
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 111 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.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Governance | 4 | 6.4 | -2.4 | 111 |
| Operational Transparency | 8.9 | 11.3 | -2.4 | 111 |
| Discoverability | 57.5 | 60.4 | -2.9 | 111 |
| Access Clarity | 19.1 | 22.3 | -3.2 | 111 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.5 | 17.9 | -3.4 | 111 |
| Contract Quality | 12.1 | 17.5 | -5.4 | 111 |
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) | 16% | 16% | 0 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 9% | 7% | +2 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 9% | 9% | 0 |
| Security | 65% | 88% | -23 |
| Arazzo workflows | 3% | 2% | +1 |
| Governance rules | 5% | 13% | -8 |
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 Birdeye 72.8
- 2 Outreach 70.5
- 3 Microsoft Azure 57.3
- 4 Funnel 55.9
- 5 Auth0 53.4
- 6 InfluxData 53.2
- 7 Infoblox 49.6
- 8 MileIQ 47.3
- 9 VTS 44.6
- 10 Brocade 44
- 1 Birdeye 61
- 2 Microsoft Azure 49.6
- 3 Outreach 46.4
- 4 Funnel 45.7
- 5 MileIQ 39.8
- 6 VTS 37.2
- 7 Contentful 36.1
- 8 Auth0 34.7
- 9 Crescendo 34.7
- 10 InfluxData 33.2
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