Product Introduction
- The VC Fundings & Acquisitions API is a RESTful interface that delivers structured venture capital funding rounds and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) data programmatically. It provides real-time access to verified investment details, company valuations, investor participation, and transaction timelines.
- The core value lies in automating access to critical market intelligence, enabling users to bypass manual data aggregation and focus on strategic analysis. It serves as a single source of truth for tracking investment trends, competitor movements, and acquisition opportunities.
Main Features
- The API offers granular filtering capabilities, allowing users to query funding rounds by date range, funding stage, industry vertical, and investor participation using standardized parameters.
- M&A endpoints provide transaction metadata, including buyer/seller entities, deal size, equity stakes, and post-acquisition integration status, updated hourly for accuracy.
- All responses are delivered in JSON format with nested objects for investors, funding amounts in multiple currencies, and historical valuation changes, ensuring machine-readable compatibility.
Problems Solved
- Eliminates the need for manual scraping of fragmented data sources like SEC filings, press releases, and news aggregators, which often contain inconsistent formatting.
- Targets financial analysts, venture capital firms, and SaaS platforms requiring embedded market intelligence for internal tools or client-facing dashboards.
- Typical use cases include portfolio monitoring, benchmarking startup valuations, identifying acquisition targets, and backtesting investment strategies against historical funding patterns.
Unique Advantages
- Unlike competitors limited to either funding or M&A data, this API combines both datasets with cross-referenced entities, enabling correlation analysis between investment history and exit events.
- Proprietary entity resolution algorithms merge data from 200+ regulatory and news sources while de-duplicating records and resolving conflicting valuation reports.
- Competitive edge stems from sub-15-minute latency on new funding alerts, ISO-compliant financial data formatting, and SOC 2-certified infrastructure for enterprise compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- How do I obtain an API key? Users must create a verified account on LeadsOnTrees.com, navigate to their profile dashboard, and generate keys with granular permissions for specific endpoints.
- What is the data freshness SLA? Funding announcements are added within 60 minutes of public disclosure, with M&A transactions updated every 2 hours from global regulatory filings.
- Can I filter by geographic regions? Yes, all endpoints support ISO 3166 country codes and U.S. state abbreviations, with optional radius-based location filtering using decimal degree coordinates.
- What sources power the dataset? The system aggregates data from SEC Form D filings, Crunchbase Pro, PitchBook, verified press releases, and direct partnerships with 83 VC syndicates.
- Are there rate limits? Standard tiers allow 500 requests/minute with burst capacity up to 1,000 requests, while enterprise plans offer customizable throttling rules and SLA-backed uptime.