# Alion Company Funding Intelligence

> Alion Company Funding Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from alion.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns structured funding data for a company including funding rounds, amounts, valuations, and investor backers

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alion.io/mcp/rest/company_funding?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alion-company-funding-intelligence-d32c063f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QIRS30rcW8CVLXWX6DCWs

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability alion-company-funding-intelligence-d32c063f
```

Example prompt: Look up Stripe's funding history — I want to know the total amount raised, each funding round with date and amount, and who the key investors and backers are.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, machine-readable funding intelligence for a specific company — especially when you have the company's domain or URL for precise identification. Prefer this over general web search when you need normalized, comparable data across funding rounds with consistent fields like round type, USD amounts, and backer classification. It is particularly valuable for due diligence workflows, competitive analysis, or enriching a CRM with investor and funding metadata.

## Known failure modes

- Company not found in Alion database — returns empty or null funding object
- Ambiguous company name matches multiple entities — use domain or URL parameter for precision
- Missing or invalid API key returns 401 Unauthorized
- Insufficient credits returns 402 Payment Required with x402 or MPP payment challenge
- Funding data may be incomplete or outdated for private companies with undisclosed rounds
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion returns 429 Too Many Requests

## How this service works

Plain-HTTP twin of the Alion MCP server. Every tool is also a GET/POST endpoint. Send "Authorization: Bearer <key>" (a key from https://alion.io/developers/keys); calls are paid from the account's credits. Or pay a paid tool per call in USDC with x402 (https://x402.org), no account: call it without a key, sign one of the offers in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header of its 402 and repeat the call with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header; or with MPP (https://paymentauth.org): answer a WWW-Authenticate: Payment challenge with Authorization: Payment <credential> (USDC on Base or Solana, a transfer you sign or have sent). Docs: https://alion.io/developers

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the company's name, domain, website, industry, size band, and headquarters location, along with a detailed funding object that includes an array of funding rounds (each with round type, announcement year, amount in USD, and valuation in USD), a list of backers (with their kind such as accelerator or fund, name, batch if applicable, and domain), total rounds count, and total raised in USD.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "url": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "domain": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "id": 64,
  "url": "https://alion.io/company/stripe",
  "name": "Stripe",
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "funding": {
   "rounds": [
    {
     "round": "series_g",
     "announced": "2023",
     "amount_usd": 6500000000,
     "valuation_usd": 50000000000
    }
   ],
   "backers": [
    {
     "kind": "accelerator",
     "name": "Y Combinator",
     "batch": "S09",
     "domain": "ycombinator.com"
    },
    {
     "kind": "fund",
     "name": "Founders Fund",
     "batch": null,
     "domain": "foundersfund.com"
    }
   ],
   "rounds_count": 5,
   "total_raised_usd": 7575000000
  },
  "website": "https://stripe.com",
  "industry": "Financial Services",
  "size_band": "1001-5000",
  "headquarters": {
   "city": "South San Francisco",
   "country": {
    "iso": "US",
    "name": "United States"
   }
  },
  "industry_segment": "Payment Processing & Gateways"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alion-company-funding-intelligence-d32c063f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from alion.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/alion.io/llms.txt)