# TheBotWire Startup & Venture News

> TheBotWire Startup & Venture News is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the latest startup funding rounds, acquisitions, exits, and fund closes from Crunchbase News and EU-Startups, with optional keyword search, source filtering, and freshness windowing.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/startups/latest
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-startup-venture-news-21bbffe2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aknf1JjCu8GsXs6CFOZaG

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 thebotwire-startup-venture-news-21bbffe2
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest startup funding rounds and acquisitions from Crunchbase News — show me up to 20 results from the past 24 hours, and flag any AI or fintech deals.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, curated startup and venture capital news — funding rounds with deal amounts and lead investors, acquisitions, exits, and fund closes — across US (Crunchbase News) and European (EU-Startups) markets. Prefer it over generic news search APIs when the user's intent is specifically investor intelligence, deal tracking, or startup market monitoring.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for the specified query or freshness window — returns empty list
- Invalid 'since' format (e.g. '1week' instead of '7d') causes a parse error
- Requesting limit above 50 returns a validation error
- Source filter set to an invalid value outside 'crunchbase' or 'eustartups' returns an error
- Upstream source temporarily unavailable causing stale or missing data

## How this service works

Startup and venture news for investor and sales agents: funding rounds with amounts and lead investors, acquisitions and exits, fund closes and sector trends across US and European markets from Crunchbase News and EU-Startups.

## Output

A list of structured news items covering startup funding rounds (with amounts and lead investors), acquisitions, exits, and fund closes sourced from Crunchbase News and/or EU-Startups, filtered by the requested query, source, limit, and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-startup-venture-news-21bbffe2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)