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Profiles, fund activity, and investment signals across 330K+ investors. Specter’s investor dataset covers venture firms, private equity, angels, and institutional investors. Each investor has a stable investor_id (prefixed inv_) used across every endpoint.

Data categories

  • Profile — name, description, HQ, founding year, organisation size, social profiles.
  • Classification — investor types (e.g. venture_capital, angel_group), investment stage, and industry / tech-vertical targeting.
  • Fund details — named funds with announce date and amount raised (fund_details).
  • Portfolio — backed companies as Specter company IDs (portfolio_companies).
  • Activitynumber_of_investments, number_of_lead_investments, number_of_exits, number_of_funds.
  • Signals — investor interest signals (strategic_signal_ids).
  • Linkagesperson_id (when the investor is an individual, e.g. an angel) and company_id (the firm’s company record); either, both, or neither may be null.

Targeting & activity

What to screen investors on — all real fields on the record:
  • Stage focusinvestment_stage (Seed through Growth).
  • Sector focusindustry_target, specter_industry_target, specter_tech_verticals_target.
  • Deal activitynumber_of_investments, number_of_lead_investments, number_of_exits.
  • Fund scalenumber_of_funds and fund_details (amounts raised).
Example (trimmed)
{
  "investor_id": "inv_609dba55408c4490fe58cf8e",
  "investor_name": "Bessemer Venture Partners",
  "investor_types": ["venture_capital"],
  "investment_stage": ["Series A", "Series B"],
  "number_of_investments": 1581,
  "number_of_exits": 325,
  "fund_details": [
    { "name": "BVP Fund XII", "announced_on": "2023-04-12", "raised_amount_usd": "3850000000" }
  ],
  "portfolio_companies": ["5e3bbf6b00c8f4c966a1e53d"],
  "strategic_signal_ids": ["ddea4a84-ffdc-459d-bb10-3d7db9c6c193"]
}

Endpoints

MethodEndpointReturns
GETLook up investorsLook up an investor by name or domain
POSTBulk get investors by IDLook up to 50 investors in one request
GETSearch investor nameSearch investors by name
GETGet investor by IDA full investor profile by ID
GETGet investor funding roundsAn investor’s investment history

How to use the API

Start with what you have Expand from an investor

Notes

  • Lookups may return more than one investor when several share a domain.
  • Bulk lookups return matched results only — unknown identifiers are omitted.
  • strategic_signal_ids is empty when the investor has no active interest signals.
  • Funding rounds are paginated, newest first. Use returned IDs to traverse across companies, people, and deals.