Frequently asked questions

Parsers VC is a venture capital data platform, running since 2019. We maintain a structured database of venture funds, startups, funding rounds, valuations, team members and venture news, collected by our own crawlers and reviewed by analysts. You can browse it on this website, filter and export it with a Pro plan, or query it through the REST API — including from an AI agent. The About page tells the longer story.

Browsing is free. Fund and startup profiles, the dashboard, the news feed and the directories of VC firms and startups are open to everyone; a directory search shows its first 10 matches without a subscription. A Pro plan removes that cap and adds XLSX export, and the API has a free plan with 500 credits a month — enough to try it against real data. The details are on the Pricing page.

All of them: the database is global and not limited to any region or sector. Funds and startups carry their country, region and city, industry tags and investment stage, so a search can be narrowed to, say, fintech startups in Germany whose last round was a Series A in the past year. We deliberately track not only the headline names but regional funds, early-stage companies and less media-visible segments that large platforms tend to under-represent.

Five kinds of records, linked to each other:

• Startups — website, description, founding year, location, industry tags, team size, total raised, last round, investors, social profiles and contact details;
• VC firms and other investors — investment stages and types, portfolio, team and recent activity;
• People — founders, partners and executives with their roles and experience;
• Funding rounds and post-money valuations — amounts, dates, stages and participants;
• News — funding announcements and other venture events, linked to the companies they mention.

The database holds over 900,000 startups, 28,000 investment firms, 80,000 people and 240,000 funding rounds, and it grows every day; the current figures are on the dashboard.

From the open web, gathered by our own crawlers. They work around the clock across hundreds of thousands of sources: fund and startup websites, news outlets and press releases, social networks and specialised catalogues, plus announcement feeds on X and Telegram. Language models turn what they find into structured events — a round closed, a fund launched, a partner joined — and match each one to the right company. On top of that, founders and investors add and update their own profiles, and our analysts review the records that matter most. For key fields we keep the source and the time of the last update, so you can tell where a figure came from.

Continuously. Collection runs 24/7 and new companies and events reach the database within hours rather than in monthly batches; funding announcements on social channels are picked up within minutes of being posted. Every record carries the time it was created and last updated, and the API’s signals feed reports each change with the time it was detected. There is little point in polling the API more often than hourly — the crawlers do not produce meaningful change faster than that.

Every record passes automated pre-moderation before it enters the main database: duplicate detection, validation of the key fields (name, website, stage, geography, sector) and filtering of noise. Prominent funds, notable startups, funding rounds and key team members are then reviewed by our analysts, who refine stages, amounts and deal participants — the fields where human judgement materially improves accuracy. Company owners can correct their own profiles, and we treat data quality as an ongoing service rather than a one-time delivery: if you spot an error, write to support@parsers.vc with a link to the record and we will fix it.

Yes, under a licence. We generate bulk dumps daily — startups, funds, people, funding rounds, investments, news and their references — as JSON and CSV archives. They are not part of the self-service API plans: paged through the API, the core entities alone would cost about 1.3 million credits and the full database with news history around 11 million, so a licence is the cheaper route by far. Write to support@parsers.vc with the datasets you need.

There are two website subscriptions, one per directory. Startups Pro ($49 a month) unlocks the startup directory: full result lists with pagination instead of the first 10 matches, and XLSX export of up to 1,000 rows per search. VC firms Pro ($29 a month) does the same for the VC firm directory. The filters are identical on the free and the paid version; what the plan buys is the complete list and the export. Both are on the Pricing page.

With a Pro plan, run a search in the startups or VC firms directory and click Export to XLSX: the file contains up to 1,000 rows matching your filters. For anything larger or automated, use the API — $select picks the fields, $filter the rows, and a page holds up to 5,000 records on the biggest plan. For the whole database, see the question above about licensing.

Payments go through Stripe by card. Website plans are billed monthly with no long-term commitment; API plans are billed monthly too, with any overage added to the next invoice. Invoices, card details, plan changes and cancellation are all in the Stripe billing portal, which is linked from your account page under Subscriptions.

Yes. The REST API at https://vcapi.parsers.vc/v2/ exposes the same database as the website: startups, funds, people, funding rounds, post-money valuations, fund portfolios, news and a signals feed of changes. Queries use OData-style parameters — $filter, $select, $expand, $orderby, $top, $skip and $count — so a single request can ask for, say, AI startups in London funded in the past year, with their investors attached. Every plan, including the free one, sees every endpoint. Start with the API reference; there is also an OpenAPI description for tooling.

Sign up, open your account page and create a key in the API keys section; it is shown once, so copy it straight away. Send it as an X-Api-Key header (or Authorization: Bearer) with every request. Keys created on the account page do not expire unless you set an expiry, and revoking one takes effect within a minute. AI agents can skip the account page entirely: they register with an e-mail address, confirm a code and receive a key of their own — see API for AI agents.

The API is metered in credits, and every plan queries the same database with the same endpoints — a bigger plan buys more credits, larger pages and a lower price per record.

• Free — $0, 500 credits a month, 100 records per page, no overage;
• Starter — $19 a month, 2,000 credits, 500 records per page, overage $0.015 per credit;
• Growth — $79 a month, 15,000 credits, 1,000 records per page, overage $0.007;
• Scale — $249 a month, 75,000 credits, 1,000 records per page, overage $0.004;
• Enterprise — $999 a month, 500,000 credits, 5,000 records per page, overage $0.002.

The monthly allowance refills on the first of the month and does not roll over. Full details, including what each kind of request costs, are on the API pricing page.

One credit buys one record, not one HTTP call, so the same data costs the same however you page it. A company, fund or person profile is 1 credit per record; related records such as funding rounds, valuations and portfolios are 0.5; news and signal items are 0.25; searches, lookups and totals are a flat 1 per request; and errors are free. Each $expand adds 25% to the records it enriches. Every response reports what it cost in the X-Credits-Charged header, GET /v2/pricing returns the full rate card, and $count tells you how many records match a filter for a single credit — so you can budget a job before running it.

There is no per-minute rate limit; a 429 from the API means the credits are spent, not that you are calling too fast. On the Free plan the API stops at zero and answers 429 with a Retry-After until the allowance refills on the first of the month. On a paid plan it keeps answering: the extra records are billed at the plan’s overage rate on the next invoice, up to a spending cap of twice the monthly allowance unless you ask us to raise it, so a runaway script cannot produce an unbounded bill. GET https://parsers.vc/api/v1/usage and your account page show the balance and the last 30 days.

Yes, without writing code. Any assistant that can make HTTP requests on its own — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT with a connector, n8n or Zapier — can register itself, get a key in your name and answer questions from the live database. The whole setup is one message: “Get me access to the parsers.vc API. Instructions for you: https://parsers.vc/api/v1/agents.md”. It will ask for your e-mail address, send you a confirmation code and be ready about two minutes later, on the same 500 free credits a month. The assistants guide explains what happens in those two minutes and which tools this does not work with.

Open Add company, enter the company website, choose Startup or Investor, and the system gathers the public information about it within a minute. If a profile already exists, use the Edit button on its page. To confirm that you represent the company, you verify an e-mail address on the company’s own domain; after that you can edit the description, team, funding rounds, portfolio and news. The changes go into the same database that the site and the API serve.

If it is your company, claim the profile with the Edit button and fix it yourself; a verified owner can also take the profile off the site with the Hide switch on the edit page. For anything else — a wrong figure on another record, a person entry you want changed or removed, a source we should not be using — write to support@parsers.vc with a link to the record and what should change; such requests are part of our normal data operations. The data describes companies and public professional roles, and our terms ask API clients not to use it to profile private individuals or to contact people who have not asked to be contacted. Closing your own account (the Danger zone on the account page) revokes every API key and deletes your profile; payment records are kept for accounting.

support@parsers.vc is the address for support, billing, data corrections and API plans; for data licensing, partnerships and custom field sets write to info@parsers.vc. Market digests go out in the newsletter, and we post on X, Telegram, LinkedIn and Facebook. The terms of service cover the rest.