Companies

Firmographics, funding, team intelligence, and real-time signals across 55M+ companies. Specter’s companies dataset provides a continuously updated profile of each company — from early-stage startups to public enterprises. Each company has a stable company_id used across every endpoint.

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Data categories

• Profile — name, description, tagline, HQ, founding year, operating status.
• Classification — industry, tech verticals, business model, customer focus.
• Team & headcount — employee count, department and location breakdowns, founders (founder_info with specter_person_id).
• Funding & financials — funding history, investors, rounds, post-money valuation.
• Transactions — acquisitions and IPOs.
• Traction & signals — web traffic, engagement metrics, growth highlights, strategic signal IDs.
• Social & reviews — social presence and product reviews (G2, Trustpilot, Glassdoor, Chrome).
• News & external data — press mentions, awards, patents and trademarks.

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Highlights

The highlights (and new_highlights) array surfaces notable, AI-generated flags on a company. Documented values include:

• headcount_surge — rapid team growth.
• strong_web_traffic_growth — increasing web traction.
• strong_social_growth — rising social engagement.
• top_tier_investors — backed by leading funds.
• no_recent_funding — may be due a new round.

The list is being expanded, so treat it as non-exhaustive. Pair highlights with search filters to build target lists.

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Endpoints

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How to use the API

Start with what you have

• A domain, website, LinkedIn URL, or name → Resolve company ID → take the company_id (free, up to 50 at once).
• Want the full record for a domain or URL, and to source it if Specter doesn’t have it → Enrich companies.
• A company ID already → Get company by ID.

Expand from a company

• Team and founders → Get company people — carries person IDs you can follow to Get person info by ID.
• Funding history → Get company funding rounds — each round carries investor_id and is_lead_investor, chainable to the Investors API.
• Acquisitions → Get company acquisitions — double-sided, with both the acquirer and acquiree company IDs.
• Similar companies → Get similar companies, or the bulk variant Bulk get similar companies by ID.
• Competitive landscape → Get company competitors — ranked competitors and the dimensions the market splits on (1 credit per request).
• Real-time signals → Get Latest Revenue for a Company, Get Latest Valuation for a Company, Get News Signals for a company, and Get Revenue Signals for a company.

Note: the company profile’s embedded investors and acquirer are names only — the chainable IDs live on the sub-resource endpoints (funding rounds, acquisitions).

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Notes

• Resolve company ID is free and resolves up to 50 identifiers per request; exact identifiers (domain, website, LinkedIn URL) return one match, while a name returns up to 10 ranked candidates. It’s the batch, no-cost way to get a company_id; Search company name is the single-query, 1-credit name search.
• Most fields are nullable — only core identity (company_id, organization_name) is guaranteed.
• Enrichment may return more than one company when domains alias to each other.
• 404 = company not found. For the acquisitions and IPOs endpoints, 200 with an empty array [] means the company exists but has no such records.
• Sub-resource endpoints return the IDs you chain on across companies, people, and investors.
• Get company competitors is a POST with an optional body — limit (1–30, default 30) and refresh (force a fresh compute). It’s cache-first and auto-recomputes results older than 30 days (last_updated shows when). Each competitor carries a competitiveness_score (0–1) and, when the rival is in Specter’s data set, a company_id you can chain to Get company by ID.