Every founder I know has burned a week building an investor list: digging through Crunchbase profiles tab by tab, copying partner names into a spreadsheet that is stale before the seed round closes. The data you want is simple, firms plus focus plus contacts, and it is weirdly hard to get in bulk. The shortcut I use now is the Startup Investors Data Scraper on Apify, a queryable investor database of 10,469 firms that returns filtered JSON in one call.

Is there a public API for investor data?

Not really. The big commercial databases keep their APIs behind sales calls and paid plans sized for funds, not founders. Free sources are scattered lists and shared spreadsheets with no filters and no freshness guarantees. This Actor takes a different shape: a curated database of 10,469 investment firms (as of December 2025) that you query like an API, filtering by firm type, sector, stage, and country, and paying only for the records you pull.

What the investor database API returns

The investor database API returns one JSON record per firm: name, type, description, location, website, social links, assets under management, stages, and sector focus, with partner contacts when you ask for them.