Startup & Funding Data
Owler Company Competitors API and MCP — rivals with revenue, funding and CEO
Send a company slug such as uber, or its Owler link, and a max_items limit. You get the competitors Owler lists for that company, ranked, each with name, link, website, CEO, founding year, ownership, sectors, headquarters, revenue and employee estimates and total funding.
- You send
- a company slug or Owler URL, and max_items
- You get back
- Competitors of one Owler company: name, link, CEO, revenue, employees, funding, headquarters and sector.
- Coverage
- Owler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owler directly | Open the page on Owler and scroll through the list | 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 Owler 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 Owler 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 |
|---|---|---|
total_items | number | How many records are in this response. |
first_item.id | string | Owler company id. |
first_item.name | string | Competitor name. |
first_item.url | string | Owler profile link. |
first_item.alias | string | Owler slug. |
first_item.rank | number | Position in the competitor list, starting at 1. |
first_item.logo | string | Logo link. |
first_item.website | string | Company website. |
first_item.ceo | object | CEO name, designation, rating, linkedin_url, twitter_url and image. |
first_item.founded_year | number | Year founded. |
first_item.ownership | string | Ownership type, such as Private. |
first_item.sectors[] | array | Sector names. |
first_item.headquarters | object | city, state and country. |
first_item.revenue | number | Revenue estimate. |
first_item.revenue_range | string | Revenue range as displayed. |
first_item.employee_count | number | Employee estimate. |
first_item.employee_range | string | Employee range as displayed. |
first_item.total_funding | number | Total funding raised. |
items | array | Every returned record, in the same shape as first_item. |
total_found | number or null | Total matches the platform reports. Null when it does not report one. |
page_count | number | How many result pages were read to build the response. |
blocked | boolean | True if the platform refused the request; false when data came back. |
proxy_traffic_bytes | number | Data transferred for the request, in bytes. Informational. |
Response
Example response
A real response, as returned.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "owler_companies_competitors",
"company": "uber",
"max_items": 2,
"start_page": 1,
"partial": false,
"human": "# Owler — competitors\n\n- **Company:** uber\n- **Results:** 2 of 23 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 170.6 KB",
"machine": {
"total_items": 2,
"first_item": {
"id": "12747691",
"name": "Bolt",
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/bolt4",
"alias": "bolt4",
"rank": 1,
"logo": "https://image4.owler.com/logo/bolt_owler_20240503_170912_small.png",
"website": "https://bolt.eu/",
"ceo": {
"name": "Markus Villig",
"designation": "Founder & CEO",
"rating": 79,
"linkedin_url": null,
"twitter_url": null,
"image": "https://image4.owler.com/ceo/Markus_Villig_owler_20240504_203028_original.png"
},
"founded_year": 2013,
"ownership": "Private",
"sectors": [
"Ride Sharing Software"
],
"headquarters": {
"city": "Tallinn",
"state": "Harju County",
"country": "EE"
},
"revenue": 1345037400,
"revenue_range": "$1B - 5B",
"employee_count": 3000,
"employee_range": "1,000 - 5,000",
"total_funding": 2286930450
},
"items": [
{
"id": "12747691",
"name": "Bolt",
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/bolt4",
"alias": "bolt4",
"rank": 1,
"logo": "https://image4.owler.com/logo/bolt_owler_20240503_170912_small.png",
"website": "https://bolt.eu/",
"ceo": {
"name": "Markus Villig",
"designation": "Founder & CEO",
"rating": 79,
"linkedin_url": null,
"twitter_url": null,
"image": "https://image4.owler.com/ceo/Markus_Villig_owler_20240504_203028_original.png"
},
"founded_year": 2013,
"ownership": "Private",
"sectors": [
"Ride Sharing Software"
],
"headquarters": {
"city": "Tallinn",
"state": "Harju County",
"country": "EE"
},
"revenue": 1345037400,
"revenue_range": "$1B - 5B",
"employee_count": 3000,
"employee_range": "1,000 - 5,000",
"total_funding": 2286930450
},
{
"id": "1166693",
"name": "DiDi",
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/didichuxing",
"alias": "didichuxing",
"rank": 2,
"logo": "https://image4.owler.com/logo/didi-chuxing_owler_20171219_130638_small.png",
"website": "https://www.didiglobal.com/",
"ceo": {
"name": "Will Wei Cheng",
"designation": "Chairman & CEO",
"rating": 72,
"linkedin_url": null,
"twitter_url": null,
"image": "https://image4.owler.com/ceo/Will Wei_Cheng_owler_20211208_171042_original.png"
},
"founded_year": 2012,
"ownership": "Public",
"sectors": [
"Ride Sharing Software",
"Road Transportation"
],
"headquarters": {
"city": "Beijing",
"state": "Beijing Municipality",
"country": "CN"
},
"revenue": 27981564376,
"revenue_range": "$10B - 50B",
"employee_count": 19113,
"employee_range": "10,000 - 50,000",
"total_funding": 25837900000
}
],
"total_found": 23,
"page_count": 1,
"blocked": false,
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 174701
},
"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-owler-companies-competitors \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"company":"uber","max_items":2}'Use cases
What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Competitor landscapes
Pull the rivals Owler lists for a company and compare revenue, headcount and funding.
Account research for sales
Find look-alike companies to a customer you already work with.
Investor screening
See how funded each competitor is relative to the target.
Market maps
Add sector and headquarters to build a map of a category.
Coverage & limits
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
Coverage
Owler 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 Owler shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.
What it will not do
- —Revenue, employee and funding values are estimates shown by Owler, not audited figures.
- —The CEO block carries a named executive and rating. Treat it as company context, not a profile of the person.
- —The competitor list is Owler's own; it can differ from how you would define competition.
FAQ
Questions, answered
The Owler slug, such as uber, or the link to the company's Owler profile.
Related
Related sources
Try owler company competitors on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.