> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api.tryspecter.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Investors

> Investor records for VC, PEs, Funds, Angels etc.,— targeting, activity, funds raised and portfolios and linked to the companies and rounds they touch.

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`).
* **Activity** — `number_of_investments`, `number_of_lead_investments`, `number_of_exits`, `number_of_funds`.
* **Signals** — investor interest signals (`strategic_signal_ids`).
* **Linkages** — `person_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 focus** — `investment_stage` (Seed through Growth).
* **Sector focus** — `industry_target`, `specter_industry_target`, `specter_tech_verticals_target`.
* **Deal activity** — `number_of_investments`, `number_of_lead_investments`, `number_of_exits`.
* **Fund scale** — `number_of_funds` and `fund_details` (amounts raised).

```json Example (trimmed) theme={null}
{
  "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

| Method | Endpoint                                                                            | Returns                                |
| ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `GET`  | [Look up investors](/api-reference/investors/look-up-investors)                     | Look up an investor by name or domain  |
| `POST` | [Bulk get investors by ID](/api-reference/investors/bulk-get-investors-by-id)       | Look up to 50 investors in one request |
| `GET`  | [Search investor name](/api-reference/investors/search-investor-name)               | Search investors by name               |
| `GET`  | [Get investor by ID](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id)                   | A full investor profile by ID          |
| `GET`  | [Get investor funding rounds](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-funding-rounds) | An investor's investment history       |

## How to use the API

**Start with what you have**

* Name or domain → [Look up investors](/api-reference/investors/look-up-investors).
* Partial name → [Search investor name](/api-reference/investors/search-investor-name) → take the `investor_id`.
* Investor ID → [Get investor by ID](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id).

**Expand from an investor**

* Portfolio → follow each ID in `portfolio_companies` to [Get company by ID](/api-reference/companies/get-company-by-id).
* Deals → [Get investor funding rounds](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-funding-rounds).
* Interest signals → follow `strategic_signal_ids` to [Get Investor Interest Signal by ID](/api-reference/talent-and-interest-signals/get-investor-interest-signal-by-id).
* Angel or firm → when `person_id` is set, [Get person info by ID](/api-reference/people/get-person-info-by-id); when `company_id` is set, [Get company by ID](/api-reference/companies/get-company-by-id) for the firm's company record.

## 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.