Search investor name
Returns investors whose name fuzzily matches the query term, each with a match_confidence from 0 to 1, sorted by descending confidence. Use the id from a result with Get investor by ID for the full profile.
Behaviour
- Returns at most 10 matches.
- Only matches with a
match_confidenceof at least 0.5 are returned; if nothing clears that bar, the response is an empty list. match_confidenceis absolute — derived from trigram similarity and comparable across separate calls, unlike the company and people search scores, which are relative to the other results in a single response.
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"