Cradle
Cradle is a Dutch–Swiss biotechnology software company founded in 2021 with headquarters in Amsterdam and an office in Zurich, building an AI-powered protein engineering platform for industrial biotech and biopharma R&D teams. The platform combines proprietary generative AI models — trained on billions of natural protein sequences and on data produced in Cradle's own Amsterdam wet lab — with a web application and REST API/Python SDK so that scientists can design, simulate, and co-optimize amino-acid sequence variants across multiple measurable properties such as activity, binding affinity, stability, expression, and developability. Core platform capabilities include AI candidate generation, multi-property co-optimization, virtual plate design, experimental data management with full versioning and audit trails, task orchestration (analyze data, diversify, engineer, select, search, train) across modalities including antibodies/mAbs, enzymes, vaccines, therapeutic peptides, and food ingredients, plus a Custom Predictors framework letting customers plug in their own ML models. Cradle is sold as enterprise SaaS to R&D organizations — disclosed customers and partners include Johnson & Johnson Janssen, Bayer, Novozymes/Novonesis, and Twist Bioscience, with the platform serving six of the top 25 global pharma companies and over 50 active R&D programs. The company has raised approximately $115M to date across a seed round (Index Ventures, 2022), a $24M Series A (Index Ventures, 2023), and a $73M Series B (IVP, 2024). Co-founders are Stef van Grieken (CEO), Jelle Prins, Elise de Reus, Eli Bixby, and Harmen van Rossum.
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API Evangelist profiles Cradle the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cradle scores 15.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Cradle
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cradle. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
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Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cradle Platform API
The Cradle Platform API is an enterprise REST API for programmatic access to Cradle's AI-driven protein engineering platform. It is organized under per-workspace v2 endpoints an...
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cradle — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 6
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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