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# 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](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id) for the full profile.
Costs 1 credit per request, regardless of how many matches are returned.
## What you need
An investor name to search on, at least 3 characters.
## Behaviour
- Returns at most 10 matches.
- Only matches with a `match_confidence` of at least 0.5 are returned; if nothing clears that bar, the response is an empty list.
- `match_confidence` is 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.
## What you do next
- **Get the full profile.** Pass a result's `id` to [Get investor by ID](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id).
## OpenAPI
````yaml /api-ref/bundle_api.yaml get /investors/search
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
title: Specter API
termsOfService: https://tryspecter.com/terms/
contact:
name: API support
email: api-support@tryspecter.com
version: 1.0.0
servers:
- description: Production
url: https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Enrich
description: >
Look up a company, person, or investor and, if Specter does not already
hold it, fetch it on demand. Includes email-based person enrichment.
- name: Search
description: |
Find records across every product from a single plain-English query.
- name: Companies
description: >
Company profiles, funding, headcount, traction, the per-company signals
and sub-resources attached to a single company, and identifier resolution.
- name: People
description: >
Specter people records: profile data, contact details, and per-person
lookups for a known person ID.
- name: Investors
description: >
Specter investor records: profile, activity, targeting, funds, portfolio
companies, and the funding rounds they have participated in.
- name: Transactions
description: |
Transaction detail by ID: funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPOs.
- name: News Signals
description: |
Company-level news signals: by ID, and for a saved list or company search.
- name: Revenue Signals
description: >
Revenue and profitability signals: by ID, by date, and for a saved list or
company search.
- name: Talent Signals
description: |
Talent signals: by ID and in bulk by ID.
- name: Investor Interest Signals
description: |
Investor interest signals: by ID and in bulk by ID.
- name: Company Lists
description: |
Create, query, and maintain lists of companies, including their results.
- name: Investor Lists
description: |
Create, query, and maintain lists of investors, including their results.
- name: People Lists
description: |
Create, query, and maintain lists of people, including their results.
- name: Saved Searches
description: |
List and delete searches saved via tryspecter.com.
- name: Company Saved Searches
description: |
Details and results for saved company searches.
- name: People Saved Searches
description: |
Details and results for saved people searches.
- name: Investor Saved Searches
description: |
Details and results for saved investor searches.
- name: Talent Signals Saved Searches
description: |
Details and results for saved Talent Signals searches.
- name: Investor Interest Saved Searches
description: |
Details and results for saved Investor Interest Signals searches.
- name: Network
description: >
Your team's LinkedIn network: the people and companies your teammates are
connected to, and your reach into a given company.
- name: Account
description: >
Organisation-level resources: your team's members, API call logs, and
credit balance.
paths:
/investors/search:
get:
tags:
- Investors
summary: Search investor name
description: >
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](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id) for the full profile.
Costs 1 credit per request, regardless of how many matches are
returned.
## What you need
An investor name to search on, at least 3 characters.
## Behaviour
- Returns at most 10 matches.
- Only matches with a `match_confidence` of at least 0.5 are returned;
if nothing clears that bar, the response is an empty list.
- `match_confidence` is 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.
## What you do next
- **Get the full profile.** Pass a result's `id` to [Get investor by
ID](/api-reference/investors/get-investor-by-id).
parameters:
- in: query
name: query
schema:
type: string
minLength: 3
required: true
allowEmptyValue: false
description: |
An investor name to search by. Must be at least 3 characters.
responses:
'200':
description: >-
The list of matching investors, sorted by descending match
confidence.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchInvestorResult'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'402':
$ref: '#/components/responses/OutOfCredits'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
'429':
$ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimits'
components:
schemas:
SearchInvestorResult:
properties:
id:
description: >-
The Specter investor ID for this investor, can be used in investor
endpoints.
type: string
example: inv_84f563826c689ceb42aff52a
name:
description: The investor's name.
type: string
example: Sequoia Capital
domain:
description: The investor's website domain.
nullable: true
type: string
example: sequoiacap.com
hq_location:
type: string
nullable: true
description: The investor's headquarters location.
example: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
founded_year:
type: integer
nullable: true
description: The year the investor was founded.
example: 1972
type:
description: The investor type (e.g. "Venture Capital").
nullable: true
type: string
example: organization
match_confidence:
description: >
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.
type: number
example: 1
required:
- id
- name
- match_confidence
ApiKeyMissing:
properties:
errorCode:
description: API_KEY_MISSING
example: API_KEY_MISSING
type: string
message:
description: No API Key was presented on the header X-API-KEY
example: No API Key was presented on the header X-API-KEY
type: string
ApiKeyNotValid:
properties:
errorCode:
description: API_KEY_NOT_VALID
example: API_KEY_NOT_VALID
type: string
message:
description: API key present, but not valid
example: API key present, but not valid
type: string
responses:
Unauthorized:
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiKeyMissing'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiKeyNotValid'
OutOfCredits:
description: Out of credits - API credit limit exceeded
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- errorCode
- message
properties:
errorCode:
type: string
enum:
- OUT_OF_CREDITS
message:
type: string
description: |
There are no more credits available to complete the request.
headers:
X-CreditLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: integer
description: The total number of credits allocated for the current period
X-CreditLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: integer
description: The number of credits remaining for the current period
X-CreditLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: number
format: float
description: The number of seconds until the credit limit resets
Forbidden:
description: Forbidden - There is no permissions to use the endpoint
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
errorCode:
description: NOT_PERMITTED
type: string
example: NOT_PERMITTED
message:
type: string
description: You do not have permission to access this resource.
example: You do not have permission to access this resource.
required:
- errorCode
- message
RateLimits:
description: Too Many Requests - API Rate limit exceeded
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- errorCode
- message
properties:
errorCode:
type: string
description: RATE_LIMITED
message:
type: string
description: You have been rate-limited
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
schema:
type: integer
description: The total rate limit allowed for this endpoint
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
schema:
type: integer
description: The number of requests remaining
X-RateLimit-Reset:
schema:
type: number
format: float
description: The number of seconds until the rate limit resets
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-Key
````