Where do I find slugs?

EU-Startups directory search returns the id of each match, which is the slug.

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 Startup API and MCP — Tagline, Location, Tags, Status, Articles

Send a startup slug or its EU-Startups link and get the listing back as JSON: name, tagline, description, country and city, tags, founding year, total funding, website, company status, logo, social links and a list of related articles with dates.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: an EU-Startups startup slug or the link to its listing
You get back: tagline, description, country, city, tags, founding year, total funding, website, status, social links and related articles
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	Open the page on EU-Startups and read it	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.
`company`	string	The identifier you sent.
`company_id`	string	The startup slug as EU-Startups uses it.
`human`	string	Readable summary of the record.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	True if the platform refused the read.
`machine.pages_opened`	number	Pages read for this record.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run: 5.
`machine.startup.id`	string	Startup slug.
`machine.startup.listing_id`	number	Numeric listing id.
`machine.startup.name`	string	Startup name.
`machine.startup.url`	string	Link to the listing.
`machine.startup.tagline`	string	One-line description.
`machine.startup.description`	string	Longer description.
`machine.startup.country / country_slug`	string	Country and its category slug.
`machine.startup.based_in`	string	City.
`machine.startup.tags[]`	array	Tags.
`machine.startup.total_funding`	null	Null in the sample; the listing shows no funding figure.
`machine.startup.founded`	number	Founding year.
`machine.startup.website`	string	The startup's website.
`machine.startup.company_status`	string	Status, e.g. Active.
`machine.startup.logo`	string	Logo image link.
`machine.startup.social_links`	object	Social links keyed by network, e.g. linkedin.
`machine.startup.articles[]`	array	Related articles: title, link and date.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "eustartups_directory",
  "company": "vista-ai",
  "company_id": "vista-ai",
  "human": "# EU-Startups directory — startup\n\n- **Id:** vista-ai\n- **Pages opened:** 1\n- **Proxy traffic:** 363.7 KB\n- **Name:** Vista AI\n- **Tagline:** Measure and Improve Your Brand’s AI Visibility.\n- **Country:** Germany\n- **Based in:** Berlin\n- **Founded:** 2025",
  "machine": {
    "startup": {
      "id": "vista-ai",
      "listing_id": 369562,
      "name": "Vista AI",
      "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/vista-ai/",
      "tagline": "Measure and Improve Your Brand’s AI Visibility.",
      "description": "Vista AI is an AI visibility platform that helps businesses monitor and understand how their brand appears across AI-powered search engines. It tracks AI rankings, brand mentions, and citations across",
      "country": "Germany",
      "country_slug": "german-startups",
      "based_in": "Berlin",
      "tags": [
        "AI Visibility Tracker",
        "AI Rank Tracker"
      ],
      "total_funding": null,
      "founded": 2025,
      "website": "https://www.vistaai.io/",
      "company_status": "Active",
      "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/vista-logo-new1-500x500.png",
      "social_links": {
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vista-ai-geo/posts/"
      },
      "articles": [
        {
          "title": "Singapore Defense Tech Hackathon names winners, with promising teams set for venture incubation (Sponsored)",
          "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/singapore-defense-tech-hackathon-names-winners-with-promising-teams-set-for-venture-incubation-sponsored/",
          "date": "2026-09-28"
        },
        {
          "title": "Portugal’s Hope Care closes €6 million Series A to expand remote patient monitoring across Europe",
          "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/portugals-hope-care-closes-e6-million-series-a-to-expand-remote-patient-monitoring-across-europe/",
          "date": "2026-09-08"
        }
      ]
    },
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_opened": 1,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 372470
  },
  "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 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"company":"vista-ai"}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Startup screening

Check location, founding year, tags and status before adding a company to a pipeline.

Funding follow-up

Use total_funding where present and the article list to see recent coverage.

Enriching directory results

Take slugs from directory search and fill in descriptions and links.

Regional ecosystem notes

Combine tags and city across looked-up startups to describe a local scene.

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

—total_funding can be null, as in the sample. Treat that as not shown on the listing.
—Articles are the ones EU-Startups links to the listing and may be unrelated sponsored items.
—Social links come back as listed. The page returns only company links shown on the listing.

FAQ

Questions, answered

An EU-Startups slug such as vista-ai or the link to the listing.

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 categories

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

EU-Startups investor

Type, HQ country, website, investment areas, typical investment, funding stages, LinkedIn and contact email.

All startup & funding data

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

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