# VenturePulse Funding Round Search

> VenturePulse Funding Round Search is a paid API for AI agents from venturepulse-nine.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches real-time VC funding round intelligence by sector, stage, and region, returning recent deals, active investors, valuation benchmarks, and funding climate data

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://venturepulse-nine.vercel.app/api/startup/funding-search
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/venturepulse-funding-round-search-dd1f004b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DXxuFDng9KU_-9fBLFl-M

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 venturepulse-funding-round-search-dd1f004b
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest VC funding round data for Series A fintech startups in North America — I want to see recent deals, which investors are most active, and what valuation benchmarks look like right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, searchable VC funding intelligence filtered by sector, stage, and geography — particularly for benchmarking valuations, identifying active investors in a space, or assessing funding climate. Prefer over general web search when you need structured deal data rather than news articles.

## Known failure modes

- No deals found for highly niche sector/region/stage combinations — returns empty results
- Stale data if funding intelligence hasn't been refreshed recently
- Ambiguous sector or stage parameters may return overly broad results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 error
- Unsupported region or sector enum values return validation error

## How this service works

Startup funding intelligence API. VC round data, investor matching, pitch deck scoring, term sheet decoding, cap table modeling, global accelerator directory, market sizing, legal formation, comparable deals, and due diligence prep. All endpoints require x402 payment (USDC on Base mainnet) via the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header.

## Output

Returns a structured dataset of recent VC funding deals matching the query criteria, including deal names, funding amounts, investor names, valuation benchmarks, round stages, and an overall funding climate assessment for the specified sector and region.

## Example request

```json
{
 "stage": "Series A",
 "region": "North America",
 "sector": "artificial intelligence"
}
```

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | pt | it | nl | ko | zh | ar (default: en)"
      },
      "stage": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "pre-seed | seed | series-a | series-b | growth | any (default: any)"
      },
      "region": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "us | eu | uk | apac | latam | mena | africa | global (default: global)"
      },
      "sector": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "fintech | saas | biotech | ai | climate | consumer | b2b | deeptech | any (default: any)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "stage": "seed",
  "region": "eu",
  "sector": "fintech",
  "summary": "EU fintech seed funding remains active in 2026 with a concentration in embedded finance and B2B payments...",
  "recent_rounds": [
   {
    "date": "2026-03",
    "stage": "seed",
    "company": "Payrails",
    "notable": "Infrastructure play for enterprise payment orchestration",
    "amount_usd": "$6M",
    "lead_investor": "HV Capital"
   }
  ],
  "investor_sentiment": "warm"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/venturepulse-funding-round-search-dd1f004b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from venturepulse-nine.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/venturepulse-nine.vercel.app/llms.txt)