Search investor name
What it does
Returns any investors whose name fuzzily matches the given query term.
Why you’d use it
To look up the Specter ID for an investor from their name before chaining the Investors API for the full profile.
Key behaviors
- Query: required URL parameter (minimum 3 characters) with the name to search for.
- Response: array of basic Specter investor information, each with a
match_confidencefrom 0 to 1, sorted by descending confidence. Use the Investors API to fetch full details. - No matches: returns an empty list when no investor clears a
match_confidenceof 0.5.
match_confidence is derived from trigram similarity and is absolute — comparable across separate calls, unlike the company and people search scores which are relative to a single response.
The limit for this endpoint is 10.
This endpoint uses 1 credit per request, regardless of how many matches are returned.
Authorizations
Query Parameters
An investor name to search by. Must be at least 3 characters.
3Response
The list of matching investors, sorted by descending match confidence.
The Specter investor ID for this investor, can be used in investor endpoints.
"inv_7f8d9e2a1b3c4d5e6f7g8h9i0"
The investor's name.
"Sequoia Capital"
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.
0.92
The investor's website domain.
"sequoiacap.com"
The investor's headquarters location.
"Menlo Park, CA"
The year the investor was founded.
1972
The investor type (e.g. "Venture Capital").
"Venture Capital"