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).

Example (trimmed)

{
  "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	Look up an investor by name or domain
POST	Bulk get investors by ID	Look up to 50 investors in one request
GET	Search investor name	Search investors by name
GET	Get investor by ID	A full investor profile by ID
GET	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.
• Partial name → Search investor name → take the investor_id.
• Investor ID → Get investor by ID.

Expand from an investor

• Portfolio → follow each ID in portfolio_companies to Get company by ID.
• Deals → Get investor funding rounds.
• Interest signals → follow strategic_signal_ids to Get Investor Interest Signal by ID.
• Angel or firm → when person_id is set, Get person info by ID; when company_id is set, 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.