Funding Rounds

 

Use the startups/fundingrounds node to get information about funding rounds.
A limit on the number of objects to be returned, between 1 and 100.

Retrieving Funding Rounds

GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

[
    {
        "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
        "Amount": 4000000,
        "Series": "Series B",
        "Date": "2019-11-18T00:00:00"
    },
    ...
    {
        "Id": "ddf73889-12aa-45d1-8a68-0004c4d76fa4",
        "Amount": 2223399,
        "Series": "Seed",
        "Date": "2019-12-19T00:00:00"
    }
]

The data response payload contains the array of Funding Rounds.

Funding Round properties

Id Funding Round Id
Date Date that the Funding Round was published
Series Funding Round type
Amount Total amount in USD raised in Funding Round

Retrieving specific Funding Round

GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/{fundingroundId}
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

{
    "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
    "Amount": 4000000,
    "Series": "Series B",
    "Date": "2019-11-18T00:00:00"
}

The data response payload contains specific Funding Round.

Retrieving Funding Rounds of specific Startup

GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/{startupId}/fundingrounds/
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

[
    {
        "Id": "b17a6fee-f297-4205-85b4-b5c5b633acde",
        "Amount": 3000000,
        "Series": "Seed",
        "Date": "2012-10-22T00:00:00"
    },
    {
        "Id": "e642cfc9-3611-4117-8a92-d50da7614474",
        "Amount": 10300000,
        "Series": "Series A",
        "Date": "2014-03-25T00:00:00"
    }
]

You can also use the Expand parameter for startups node to get Funding Rounds related to specific Startup

When you query a funding round it returns a set of basic fields by default, as the examples above show. However, you can specify which fields you want returned by using the select parameter and listing each field. This overrides the defaults and returns the fields you specify, and the Id of the object, which is always returned.

GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/{fundingroundId}?$select=Amount
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

{
    "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
    "Amount": 4000000
}

This parameters can be used with collections and specific records.

Retrieving Related Entities

Related Funding Round entities

Partners Funding Round Partners
References News related to Funding Round

Retrieving Funding Round with Partners

Partners properties

Id Startup or Fund depending on the PartnerType
PartnerType Partner Type (Startup, Fund)
InvestmentRole Investment Role (InvestmentObject, Investor, LedInvestor) 
GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/{fundingroundId}?$expand=Partners
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

{
    "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
    "Amount": 4000000,
    "Series": "Series B",
    "Date": "2019-11-18T00:00:00",
    "Partners": [
        {
            "Id": "45f4d348-7bd2-48ff-95da-c564131764c0",
            "PartnerType": "Startup",
            "InvestmentRole": "InvestmentObject"
        }
    ]
}

Retrieving Funding Round with references

Reference properties

Id News Id
Title News title
Date News published date
Description News description
Category News category
Author News author
Source Source website page 
GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/{fundingroundId}?$expand=References
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

{
    "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
    "Amount": 4000000,
    "Series": "Series B",
    "Date": "2019-11-18T00:00:00",
    "References": [
        {
            "Id": "5a29cfc5-3648-48b6-a081-f3a47fd27b9e",
            "Title": "French ride-sharing startup, Heetch aims to take...",
            "Date": "2019-11-20T00:00:00",
            "Description": "Based out of Paris, Heetch, a ride-sharing app...",
            "Category": "app\r\nFrench Startups\r\nfunding\r\nMobility",
            "Author": "Editorial team",
            "Source": "https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/french-ride..."
        }
    ]
}

You can specify which fields you want returned by using the select parameter and listing each field. This overrides the defaults and returns only the fields you specify, and the Id of the object, which is always returned.

GET https://vcapi.parsers.me/v2/startups/fundingrounds/{fundingroundId}?$expand=References&$select=Reference.Title,Reference.Description
Authorization: Bearer {your-auth-token} or query string parameter

Success responce:

Status 200 OK

{
    "Id": "2b796157-ec9d-4f3a-8456-0002c2ed4f58",
    "References": [
        {
            "Id": "5a29cfc5-3648-48b6-a081-f3a47fd27b9e",
            "Title": "French ride-sharing startup, Heetch..",
            "Description": "Based out of Paris, Heetch, a ride-sharing app..."
        }
    ]
}

This parameters can be used with collections and specific records.