How do I filter by country?

Pass an ISO-2 code such as DE as the country input.

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 Investor Search API and MCP — Investors by Name, Type and Country

Search the EU-Startups investor database by name, investor type (VC firm, accelerator or corporate VC) and HQ country. All filters are optional. Each match comes back with name, type, HQ, investment areas, typical investment, funding stage, logo and link.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: optional filters (name keyword, investor type, HQ country as an ISO-2 code) and how many investors you want
You get back: type, HQ, investment areas, typical investment, funding stage and link for each investor
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.
`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	Investor slug on EU-Startups.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Investor name.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the listing.
`machine.first_item.investor_type`	string	Type, e.g. Corporate VC or Accelerator.
`machine.first_item.hq_location`	string	HQ country.
`machine.first_item.investment_areas[]`	array	Focus areas.
`machine.first_item.typical_investment`	string	Typical investment range.
`machine.first_item.funding_stage`	string	Funding stages as one label.
`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_investors_search",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# EU-Startups investors — search\n\n- **Query:** all\n- **Results:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 441.8 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "intellectual-labs-as-2",
      "name": "Intellectual Labs AS",
      "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/investor/intellectual-labs-as-2/",
      "investor_type": "Corporate VC",
      "hq_location": "Norway",
      "investment_areas": [
        "Innovation",
        "AI"
      ],
      "typical_investment": "0-€100k",
      "funding_stage": "Pre-Seed / Seed",
      "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LogoWhite.jpg"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "intellectual-labs-as-2",
        "name": "Intellectual Labs AS",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/investor/intellectual-labs-as-2/",
        "investor_type": "Corporate VC",
        "hq_location": "Norway",
        "investment_areas": [
          "Innovation",
          "AI"
        ],
        "typical_investment": "0-€100k",
        "funding_stage": "Pre-Seed / Seed",
        "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LogoWhite.jpg"
      },
      {
        "id": "gamic-global-automotive-mobility-innovation-challenge",
        "name": "GAMIC – Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge",
        "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/investor/gamic-global-automotive-mobility-innovation-challenge/",
        "investor_type": "Accelerator",
        "hq_location": "Germany",
        "investment_areas": [
          "Automotive",
          "Mobility"
        ],
        "typical_investment": "0-€100k",
        "funding_stage": "Pre-Seed / Seed",
        "logo": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GAMIC-_-LOGO-.png"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": null,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 452411
  },
  "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-investors-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Investor lists by country

Filter by ISO-2 country to list funds headquartered there.

Accelerator and corporate VC scans

Filter by type to separate accelerators and corporate funds from VC firms.

Matching ticket size

Read typical_investment and funding_stage across results to shortlist.

Feeding a lookup

Collect slugs, then call EU-Startups investor 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

—Summary rows. Website, LinkedIn and contact email are in EU-Startups investor.
—The country filter takes an ISO-2 code such as DE, and type takes vc, accelerator or corporate.
—total_found is null in the sample, so the full number of matches is not reported.

FAQ

Questions, answered

vc (VC firm), accelerator and corporate (corporate VC).

Related sources

EU-Startups investor

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

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.

All startup & funding data

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

Try eu-startups investor search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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