NEA (New Enterprise Associates): agent readiness, investment criteria and pitch path

Menlo Park, United States · founded 1978 · North America · scanned 31 October 2026

Agent-Ready Index24.758th of 97
Agent tasks0of 3 verified tasks
Readiness levelL1Basic Web Presence
Checks passed5/25all decided

WEEK BY WEEK

The index is scanned again every week; this firm's history starts with the 26 Oct edition (24.7).

Every weekly edition is reviewed by a person before it goes live. Week-by-week data for all firms: history.json.

FIVE PARTS OF THE INDEX

Discoverability40%
Content for agents33%
Bot access50%
APIs, MCP and auth0%
Agent tasks0%

Each part counts 20%. Parts are the share of their checks passed; agent tasks give half credit for criteria only in page prose and for a pitch form.

THREE AGENT TASKS

✗ No

Can an agent discover the investment criteria?

“We’re seasoned company-builders—skilled at navigating evolving macroeconomic environments while offering deep domain expertise across healthcare and technology.” (sectors · html)
✗ No

Can it access APIs or MCP tools?

No MCP server card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools.

✗ Email or none

Can it find a structured pitch-submission path?

No pitch form, tool or pitch email found.

FIRM PROFILE

Fund size

Not stated on its site.

Ticket

No ticket size an agent could read.

Stage, in its words

No stage focus an agent could read.

Backed (as listed on its site)
Horizon3aiCloudflareFactoryDatabricksMongodbCuspaiMarathon HealthRadiology Partners
WebsitePortfolioLinkedInReceipts (JSON)

EVERY CHECK

Discoverability

✓robots.txt — A valid robots.txt is published (1 User-agent group).
✓Sitemap — robots.txt lists 1 sitemap(s).
✗Link headers — No Link headers on the homepage.
✗DNS-AID — DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) records not found under _agents.
✗Organization identity — No Organization structured data on the homepage.

Content for agents

✗Markdown on request — Accept: text/markdown returns text/html; charset=utf-8, not Markdown.
✗llms.txt — No /llms.txt found.
✓Readable without JavaScript — The server HTML carries the page text (191 of 189 words).

Bot access

✓AI bot rules — No AI-specific groups; the wildcard rules apply to AI crawlers.
✗Content Signals — No Content-Signal directive in robots.txt.
✗AI usage signals — No AI usage preferences declared (Content Signals, IETF Content-Usage, TDMRep or noai).
–Web Bot Auth — No Web Bot Auth directory (informational: only for sites that run their own bots).
✓AI agents can get in — 7 of 7 AI crawlers are allowed and reached the page.

APIs, MCP and auth

✗API catalog — No API catalog found.
✗OAuth discovery — No OAuth/OIDC discovery metadata found.
✗Protected Resource — No valid /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
✗auth.md — auth.md not found.
✗MCP server card — MCP Server Card not found.
✗A2A agent card — A2A Agent Card not found.
✗Agent Skills — Agent Skills index not found.
✗WebMCP — No WebMCP tools were registered while the page loaded.
✗ARD manifest — No ARD capability manifest found.
✗Personal Agent Protocol — No Personal Agent Protocol manifest (/.well-known/poppy.json).

Agent actions

✗Criteria for agents — No key facts found for an agent to act on.
✗API / MCP access — No API or MCP entry point for agents (no MCP card, API catalog, OpenAPI document or WebMCP tools).
✗Pitch path agents can finish — No structured action path found for agents.

Commerce

–x402 — x402 payment protocol not detected (not a commerce site).
–MPP — MPP payment discovery not detected (not a commerce site).
–UCP — UCP profile not found (not a commerce site).
–ACP — ACP discovery document not found (not a commerce site).
–AP2 — AP2 not detected (no A2A Agent Card) (not a commerce site).

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FAQ

What is NEA (New Enterprise Associates)'s ticket size?

NEA (New Enterprise Associates) did not state a ticket size anywhere an agent could read on 31 October 2026.

How do you pitch NEA (New Enterprise Associates)?

We found no pitch form, tool or pitch email on NEA (New Enterprise Associates)'s site on 31 October 2026.

Is NEA (New Enterprise Associates) agent-ready?

NEA (New Enterprise Associates) scores 24.7 out of 100 in the Agent-Ready VC Index (rank 58 of the firms we could fully check) and reaches agent-readiness Level 1 (Basic Web Presence), passing 5 of 25 checks.

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