Why is it a flat price?

It is a reference list priced at 5 points per run, as in the sample's total_points of 5.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

5 points per successful run, which is $5 per 1,000, and only runs that return data are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

EU-Startups Directory Categories API and MCP — Country Slugs and Startup Counts

Run it with an empty body and get the country categories of the EU-Startups database: for each one a slug, the country name, a link, a numeric category id and the number of startups listed. The slugs are the values you pass as the country filter in EU-Startups directory search.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: nothing; the request body is empty
You get back: the country categories of the EU-Startups database with slugs, names, links and startup counts
Coverage: EU-Startups records with a public page.
Price: 5 pts — $5 per 1,000; Charged only when the record resolves. A request that finds nothing is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
EU-Startups directly	Browse EU-Startups and note each entry	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when EU-Startups changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$5 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what EU-Startups publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`max_items`	number	The cap you sent on returned records.
`start_page`	number	First page read.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reaching max_items.
`human`	string	Readable summary: query, result count and a traffic line.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of records returned in this response.
`machine.items[]`	array	The returned records, each with the fields listed below.
`machine.first_item`	object	A copy of the first record in items[], for a quick read.
`machine.total_found`	number\|null	Total matches when the platform reports one; null when it does not.
`machine.page_count`	number	Pages read for this response.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	True if the platform refused the read.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Traffic used by the run, in bytes.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run: 5, regardless of how many records come back.
`machine.first_item.id`	string	Category slug, usable as the country filter in EU-Startups directory search.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Country name.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the category on EU-Startups.
`machine.first_item.type`	string	Category type; country in the sample.
`machine.first_item.category_id`	number	Numeric category id on EU-Startups.
`machine.first_item.company_count`	number	Startups listed in the category.
`machine.first_item.description`	string	Short description of the category.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "eustartups_directory_categories",
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# EU-Startups directory — categories\n\n- **Query:** all\n- **Results:** 30 of 30 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 460.2 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 30,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "austrian-startups",
      "name": "Austria",
      "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/wpbdp_category/austrian-startups/",
      "type": "country",
      "category_id": 797,
      "company_count": 721,
      "description": "Startups out of Austria"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "austrian-startups",
        "name": "Austria",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/wpbdp_category/austrian-startups/",
        "type": "country",
        "category_id": 797,
        "company_count": 721,
        "description": "Startups out of Austria"
      },
      {
        "id": "belgian-startups",
        "name": "Belgium",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/wpbdp_category/belgian-startups/",
        "type": "country",
        "category_id": 1899,
        "company_count": 701,
        "description": "Startups out of Belgium"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 30,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 471202
  },
  "total_points": 5
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One record per request. Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-eustartups-directory-categories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Building country filters

Fetch the slugs once and use them as the country input of the directory search.

Ecosystem comparison

Compare company_count across countries to see where the directory is densest.

Coverage checks

Confirm which countries the directory has a category for before planning a search.

Dropdown data

Populate a country picker in your own tool from the live list.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

EU-Startups records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information EU-Startups shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Counts are what the directory shows per category and say nothing beyond that listing.
—This is the list of country categories only. Individual startups come from EU-Startups directory search.
—total_found is the number of categories (30 in the sample), not of startups.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Pass a slug such as german-startups as the country input of EU-Startups directory search.

Related sources

EU-Startups directory search

Name, city, tags, founding year, logo and link for each startup in the EU-Startups database.

EU-Startups directory startup

Tagline, description, country, city, tags, founding year, total funding, website, status, social links and related articles.

EU-Startups investor search

Type, HQ, investment areas, typical investment, funding stage and link for each investor.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

Try eu-startups directory categories on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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