The Hog is a real-time web intelligence API built for AI agents and go-to-market teams. It unifies people data, company data, web search, deep research, news, social signals, and web scraping into a single credit-based API with multi-provider routing. The platform is designed to give AI agents structured, real-time access to people profiles, company intelligence, live sentiment, news, and the open web. The Hog was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch.
The Hog
ActiveAI Demand Gen for Companies
Total raised
$500K
1 round
Stage
Seed
Jan 2025
Team
1-10
since 2025
Pricing
—
Founded
2025
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
—
Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and go-to-market teams
Unified people data for individual profile lookups and enrichment
Company data for firmographic and business intelligence
Web search and deep research capabilities through a single interface
News and live social signals for sentiment and event tracking
Web scraping for structured access to the open web
Single credit-based API pricing model across all data types
Multi-provider routing that aggregates underlying data sources
12/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Jan 2025 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$500K raised ·1 backer·10 network links
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- What is The Hog?
- The Hog is a real-time web intelligence API that unifies people data, company data, web search, deep research, news, social signals, and scraping behind a single credit-based API with multi-provider routing.
- Who is it designed for?
- It is built for AI agents and go-to-market teams that need structured, real-time access to people profiles, company intelligence, news, and the open web.
- How does pricing work?
- The Hog uses a single credit-based API model, so the same credits can be spent across people data, company data, search, research, and scraping rather than buying separate tools.
- What does multi-provider routing mean?
- Instead of relying on one underlying data source, The Hog routes requests across multiple providers, which is intended to broaden coverage and improve data availability.
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