Can I use a country and a keyword together?

The docs describe the keyword as an alternative to the country, so send one of them.

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?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

EU-Startups Directory Search API and MCP — European Startups by Country or Keyword

Send a country category slug such as german-startups, or a keyword, and get the matching startups from the EU-Startups database: name, city, country, tags, founding year, logo and link. Provide a country or a keyword. Use max_items (up to 250) and start_page to control how much you read.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a country category slug (such as german-startups) or a keyword, plus how many startups you want
You get back: name, city, tags, founding year, logo and link for each startup in the EU-Startups database
Coverage: EU-Startups records with a public page.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

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	Type the query into EU-Startups and read the results	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	$1 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.
`keyword`	string	The keyword you sent, when you used one.
`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: 1 per returned record.
`machine.first_item.id`	string	Startup slug on EU-Startups.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Startup name.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the listing on EU-Startups.
`machine.first_item.listing_id`	number	Numeric listing id.
`machine.first_item.country`	string	Country.
`machine.first_item.country_slug`	string	Country category slug.
`machine.first_item.based_in`	string	City.
`machine.first_item.tags[]`	array	Tags such as AI or FinTech.
`machine.first_item.founded`	number	Founding year.
`machine.first_item.logo`	string	Logo image link.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "eustartups_directory_search",
  "keyword": "ai",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# EU-Startups directory — search\n\n- **Query:** keyword=ai\n- **Results:** 2 of 2181 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 463.8 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "payflowai",
      "name": "PayFlowAI",
      "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/payflowai/",
      "listing_id": 369753,
      "country": "Austria",
      "country_slug": "austrian-startups",
      "based_in": "Vienna",
      "tags": [
        "AI",
        "FinTech"
      ],
      "founded": 2026,
      "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/1777647064783-150x150.jpg"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "payflowai",
        "name": "PayFlowAI",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/payflowai/",
        "listing_id": 369753,
        "country": "Austria",
        "country_slug": "austrian-startups",
        "based_in": "Vienna",
        "tags": [
          "AI",
          "FinTech"
        ],
        "founded": 2026,
        "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/1777647064783-150x150.jpg"
      },
      {
        "id": "ai-sites-ireland",
        "name": "AI Sites Ireland",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/ai-sites-ireland/",
        "listing_id": 369688,
        "country": "Ireland",
        "country_slug": "irish-startups",
        "based_in": "Dublin",
        "tags": [
          "Web Design",
          "Web Hosting"
        ],
        "founded": 2026,
        "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/google-business-logo-1200x1200-1-150x150.jpg"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 2181,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 474966
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

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

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged. max_items caps how many records are returned and billed.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-eustartups-directory-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"ai","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Country startup lists

Pull the startups of one country category to build a regional prospect list.

Sector keyword scans

Search a keyword and read the tags to see which startups describe themselves that way.

New-listing tracking

Re-run a search and compare listing_id values to find new entries.

Feeding a lookup

Collect slugs here, then use EU-Startups directory startup for the full record.

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

—Rows are summaries. Description, funding, website and status are in EU-Startups directory startup.
—Provide a country or a keyword; the search is one or the other, as the docs state.
—Matches mean a keyword hit in the directory. Tags are as each startup entered them.

FAQ

Questions, answered

From EU-Startups directory categories, which lists each slug with its startup count.

Related sources

EU-Startups directory startup

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

EU-Startups directory categories

The country categories of the EU-Startups database with slugs, names, links and startup counts.

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 search on your own data

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