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GET
Search investor name

Authorizations

X-API-Key
string
header
required

Query Parameters

query
string
required

An investor name to search by. Must be at least 3 characters.

Minimum string length: 3

Response

The list of matching investors, sorted by descending match confidence.

id
string
required

The Specter investor ID for this investor, can be used in investor endpoints.

Example:

"inv_7f8d9e2a1b3c4d5e6f7g8h9i0"

name
string
required

The investor's name.

Example:

"Sequoia Capital"

match_confidence
number
required

How closely the investor name matched the query, from 0 to 1, derived from trigram (pg_trgm) similarity. Only matches with a confidence of at least 0.5 are returned.

Unlike the company and people search endpoints, this score is absolute — it is comparable across separate calls rather than normalised against the other results in a single response.

Example:

0.92

domain
string | null

The investor's website domain.

Example:

"sequoiacap.com"

hq_location
string | null

The investor's headquarters location.

Example:

"Menlo Park, CA"

founded_year
integer | null

The year the investor was founded.

Example:

1972

type
string | null

The investor type (e.g. "Venture Capital").

Example:

"Venture Capital"