Recent Funding API

A read-only JSON API of recently funded startups: funding rounds with a source link for every amount, investors, founders, accelerators, acquisitions and new VC funds.

The Recent Funding API gives you the data behind recentfunding.com as JSON: startups and their funding rounds, investors, founders, accelerators, acquisitions and new VC funds. Every amount links to the page it came from.

It's a plain REST API. Every endpoint is a GET that returns JSON, and every request needs an API key. A key is free and takes only an email. For the new rounds every day, use Pro.

Quickstart

1. Get a key. Sign in on your dashboard with your email. Your key is created there and shown once.

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Sign in with your email (we send a one-time code). Your key is created on your dashboard and shown once.

2. Make a request.

export RF_KEY=rf_live_…
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?limit=5"

3. Read the response. Lists come back as an array plus a next_offset for the next page:

{"companies": [{"slug": "…", "name": "…", "stage": "seed", "amount_usd": "…", "announced_at": "…", "raise_source_url": "https://…"}], "count": 5, "next_offset": 5}

A few more requests to try:

# Seed-stage AI agent companies, largest round first
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?stage=seed&industry=ai-agents&sort=raise"

# One company and all its rounds
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies/shepherd"

# Crypto rounds since September 1, 2026
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/rounds?crypto=true&since=2026-09-01"

Track your requests, errors and keys on your dashboard.

Authentication

Send your key in the Authorization header:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?limit=5"

X-API-Key: rf_live_… works too. For tools that can't set headers, add ?api_key=rf_live_… to the URL. Prefer a header, since URLs end up in logs.

• A key is shown once. We store only a hash, so a lost key can't be recovered: create a new one.
• Manage keys (create, name, revoke) on your dashboard.
• A missing key returns 401 api_key_required. An unknown or revoked key returns 401 invalid_api_key.
• Keep keys out of front-end code anyone can read.

Plans and limits

Which plan? If you're building anything that needs the new funding rounds every day across the industry (a deal-flow feed, a CRM sync, an alerting bot, an AI agent), choose Pro. It gets every new round and stealth startup as it lands, with MCP and the live feed. For occasional live lookups, pay as you go costs less under about 490 calls a month; above that, Pro costs less. Free is for trying the API on older data.

Pay as you go is a prepaid balance: top up 10, 25 or 50 dollars on your dashboard for 100, 250 or 500 calls. Your first top-up adds 100 free calls. Credits never expire. When the balance runs out, your keys are on Free again. Pro and Max quotas are per month across all your keys, reset on the 1st (UTC), and MCP tool calls count like API calls.

Pro and Max start with a 7-day free trial. Start your Pro trial or compare pricing.

Free keys allowed 100 requests a day until 2026-10-30; they now allow 50.

On Free, answers leave out companies and rounds newer than 14 days and stealth companies. Each answer then includes an access object saying how many were left out and how to get live data. Asking for one such company returns 403 plan_required. On pay as you go, every answer carries an X-RecentFunding-Balance header with the calls left.

Every response tells you where you stand:

Past a daily limit, requests return 429 rate_limited. Past a monthly quota, they return 429 monthly_quota_exceeded with resets_at and a Retry-After header. Checking your own usage (GET /api/v1/usage) is free and never counts.

Pagination

List endpoints take limit and offset and return next_offset. Pass it back as offset until it is null.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?limit=500&offset=0"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?limit=500&offset=500"

The maximum limit is shown in each endpoint's parameter table. New companies appear at the top of the default sort, so for a stable export use sort=oldest.

Errors

Errors use standard HTTP status codes and one JSON shape:

{"error": {"status": 400, "code": "invalid_parameter", "message": "\"sort\" must be one of: newest, oldest, raise, announced, name.", "param": "sort"}}

Companies

GET/api/v1/companies

Lists startups, newest first by default. Amount filters and sort=raise use the company's latest round.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies?stage=seed&sort=announced&limit=20"

Returns {"companies": [Company], "count", "next_offset"}. See Company.

GET/api/v1/companies/{slug}

One company with every funding round on record, newest first, and the people behind it.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies/shepherd"

Returns {"company": Company, "rounds": [CompanyRound], "founders": [...]}. An unknown slug returns 404.

Rounds

GET/api/v1/rounds

Funding rounds with a known amount, most recently announced first.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/rounds?since=2026-10-01&limit=50"

Returns {"rounds": [Round], "count", "next_offset"}. See Round.

Investors

GET/api/v1/investors

Investors ranked by deals in the last 12 months (default), portfolio size, round capital or most recent deal. round_capital is the size of the rounds an investor joined, not its own check.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/investors?type=funds&active=1&limit=25"

GET/api/v1/investors/{slug}

One investor: its portfolio (latest deal first), top categories, deals by stage and year, and frequent co-investors. Where researched, it also has the team, disclosed limited partners and disclosed positions, each with a source_url.

Founders

GET/api/v1/founders

People at active companies, one row per person and company, with role, picture, links and the page that names them. Email addresses and phone numbers are never published.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/founders?scope=founders&team=solo&limit=50"

Accelerators

GET/api/v1/accelerators

Every accelerator program with its company count, batches and what its companies raised.

GET/api/v1/accelerators/{key}

One program, its batches and its companies, newest batch first.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/accelerators/yc?limit=100"

Categories and markets

GET/api/v1/categories

Every category (finer than industry, such as prediction-markets) with company counts, sourced capital and the latest raise. No parameters.

GET/api/v1/categories/{key}

The companies in one category, with sourced capital, first raise and latest raise.

GET/api/v1/market-map

Capital raised by industry over a recent window against the window before, the stage mix and the top companies. Only rounds with a known amount count.

GET/api/v1/market-map/companies

The companies behind one market-map figure, most capital first.

GET/api/v1/landscapes

Each market landscape with its segments, company counts and sourced capital. No parameters.

GET/api/v1/landscapes/{key}

Every company in a landscape, each in one segment, with its rounds.

Acquisitions and private equity

GET/api/v1/acquisitions

Startup acquisitions, most recently announced first. Acquisitions are never counted as funding.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/acquisitions?scope=startups&limit=50"

Fields worth knowing:

• price_usd is set only with price_source_url, the article that states it. Otherwise it is null.
• price_estimate is our estimated range for an undisclosed deal. It is never a price (method).
• buyer_type is pe for a private equity buyer. deal_type is take_private for a listed company taken private.

GET/api/v1/pe-firms

Private equity firms with their acquisitions, add-ons and take-privates, most recent deal first.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/pe-firms?sort=deals_12m&acquired=1&limit=20"

aum_usd always comes with aum_source_url: an SEC Form ADV filing for US firms, or the firm's own published figure.

GET/api/v1/pe-firms/{slug}

One firm, every acquisition it made and similar firms.

Funds

GET/api/v1/funds

New venture capital funds, most recently announced first. The list is compiled by Shai Goldman and credited in every response. Funds are never counted as startup rounds.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/funds?year=2026&limit=50"

amount_usd is set only with amount_source_url.

Stats and rankings

GET/api/v1/stats

Totals by stage, industry and source. No parameters.

GET/api/v1/leaderboard

Companies ranked on one metric, highest first. Ties share a rank.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/leaderboard?metric=raised_ytd&limit=10"

GET/api/v1/usage

Your key's requests today and over the last 30 days, by endpoint. Free: it never counts against your limit.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/usage"

Live feed

New funding rounds pushed over a WebSocket as they are added. Messages have the same fields as [/api/v1/rounds](#get-api-v1-rounds) plus added_at. Available on Pro and Max.

const ws = new WebSocket("wss://vc-radar-production.up.railway.app/v1/stream?api_key=" + RF_KEY + "&stage=seed&min_amount=1000000");
ws.onmessage = e => {
  const m = JSON.parse(e.data);
  if (m.type === "round") console.log(m.name, m.stage, m.amount_usd, m.source_url);
};

• Filters: stage, min_amount, crypto. backlog (0 to 100, default 10) replays the latest matching rounds first.
• The first message is {"type": "hello"}. The server pings every 30 seconds; reconnect when the socket closes.
• Close codes: 4001 invalid key, 4003 plan required, 4029 too many connections (five per key).

Contacts

The people to talk to at a company, with confirmed work emails: the founders we list, then decision makers (founders, C-level, VPs, directors), and the addresses the company publishes on its site.

GET https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/companies/{slug}/contacts

• Each person has name, title, email (a work address confirmed by checking the mailbox, or null), email_status, linkedin and source. Personal Gmail or Yahoo addresses are never returned.
• One lookup is one company for your account. Looking the same company up again within 30 days is free.
• Pro includes 50 lookups a month and Max 100. A free key gets 3 in total. After that, each company uses 10 credits (one dollar) from a pay as you go balance; without one the answer is 402 contacts_quota.
• In MCP the tool is get_company_contacts.
• Use them for relevant business outreach only, and stop when someone asks you to. Anyone can remove their address with POST /api/v1/contacts/opt-out and {"email": "..."}, or by emailing hello@recentfunding.com.

MCP

Use Recent Funding from Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients. The server is https://recentfunding.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). Every endpoint is a tool with the same parameters (list_companies, get_company, list_rounds and so on).

claude mcp add --transport http recent-funding https://recentfunding.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY"

Calling tools needs Pro or Max. Tool calls count toward your daily limit.

Objects

Image fields (logo, company_logo, avatar) are absolute URLs. Records are identified by slug (companies, investors) or key (categories, accelerators). A null amount means unknown, not zero.

Company

CompanyRound

Round

Acquisition

PeFirm

Fund

Stats

LeaderboardEntry

Data and sources

Every amount links to where it came from: raise_source_url on companies, source_url on rounds. raise_provider says how it was found (google-news, website, press, agent-review and so on). Amounts that no public source supports are left out. The data updates daily. How we source and verify the data explains the method.

Responses send Cache-Control: public, max-age=60 and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so you can call the API from a browser. Please cache on your side, use filters instead of downloading everything, and back off on 429 and 503.

The machine-readable spec is openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1).

For AI agents

• Make a key in one request, with the email of the person you work for and what it's for. use_case is required on your first key: a sentence on what you are building. Later keys for the same email can leave it out.

curl -X POST https://recentfunding.com/api/keys/new -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{"email": "you@example.com", "company": "Acme Ventures", "use_case": "weekly deal-flow digest of seed rounds in fintech"}'

• Tell us what you're building, or want to build, any time. No key needed, and we read every answer. Add wishes for data you'd like us to add. In MCP, the tool is tell_us_what_you_are_building, open on every plan.

curl -X POST https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/building -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{"building": "A weekly digest of seed rounds in fintech for our sales team", "wishes": "Partner names on each round", "volume": "200 calls a day"}'

• To reach a company's founders or decision makers, call GET /api/v1/companies/{slug}/contacts (MCP: get_company_contacts). See Contacts: only confirmed work emails, 50 companies a month on Pro, and allow a 120 second timeout for a company nobody has looked up yet.
• On every request, send X-On-Behalf-Of naming who you work for (X-On-Behalf-Of: Acme Ventures (acme.vc)) and name your tool in User-Agent. Tell the person you send this.
• When a response or error includes upgrade, pass upgrade.tell_your_user to the person you work for, word for word. Don't open the checkout link or pay yourself.
• Start from llms.txt for a short guide.