Research AI funding like a VC

Start with the pulse, not the noise

Market Pulse is the 30-second orientation: monthly funding totals for the last year, which categories absorbed the most capital in the last six months, and the largest recent rounds. Check it before diving deeper — it tells you which trend is real money versus Twitter noise.

Drill into rounds

The funding tracker lists every disclosed round, filterable by stage — Pre-Seed through Series F, plus Growth, Venture, and Grant rounds. Three workflows that work well:

• Stage benchmarking. Filter to your stage and category to see what comparable companies raised. Useful before setting your own ask.
• Momentum scan. Sort recent rounds and watch for repeat categories — three same-category rounds in a month usually precedes a wave.
• Follow-on mapping. Open a startup's profile to see its full round history and which investors returned in later rounds — returning investors are the strongest quality signal there is.

Work backwards from investors

Every investor page lists portfolio companies with investment counts. Two uses: founders building a target list of funds that actually deploy in their category, and analysts spotting when a fund suddenly concentrates in one vertical — that's a thesis announcement without the blog post.

Caveats that keep you honest

• Disclosed only. We never estimate undisclosed rounds — if a company shows no funding, that means unverifiable, not zero.
• Announcement lag. Rounds appear when announced, which can trail the actual close by months.
• Category double-counting. A company in two categories contributes its round to both in category totals — fine for ranking heat, wrong for summing.

Automate it

Everything above is available as JSON: /api/v1/deals for rounds, /api/v1/startups?sort=funding for capital tables. Pipe it into a spreadsheet with Make or Zapier, or query it conversationally through the MCP endpoint.