Private Equity List API Reference

The Private Equity List API lets you search the investor and fund database programmatically over a read-only REST interface.

The API requires an active Pro Max subscription. Your API key and the API base URL are available in your account settings.

TL;DR

Get your API key

Get it at privateequitylist.com/settings/api-mcp (requires Pro Max). The API base URL is shown there too.

Make your first request

curl "https://<api-base-url>/investors/search?type=venture-capital&industry=fintech&region=europe" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

Refine with filters and pagination

Combine the filters below (all optional, multi-value) and page through results with page / per_page.

Authentication

Every request must include your API key in the X-API-Key header:

X-API-Key: <your-api-key>

Your API key is available at privateequitylist.com/settings/api-mcp and requires an active Pro Max subscription. If your subscription lapses, requests are rejected.
Keys expire one year after they’re issued. Once a key expires, generate a new one from your account.
Your key grants read-only access to the Investors and Funds endpoints below. No other endpoints are accessible with it.
Usage is limited to 2000 requests per day per key (rolling 24-hour window). Exceeding it returns 429 until the window resets.

Keep your API key private. Anyone with it can query the database on your behalf.

Error Responses

Status	Meaning
`401`	Missing, invalid, or expired API key
`403`	Your subscription isn’t active, or you’re calling an endpoint/method your key doesn’t have access to
`404`	The requested record doesn’t exist
`422`	Invalid path/query parameters (e.g. a non-positive `id`), or an unrecognized value for a filter with a fixed set of options (see below)
`429`	Too many requests — you’ve hit the per-second or daily rate limit

Errors are returned as JSON: { "detail": "<message>" }.

Pagination

Search endpoints return a paginated envelope:

{
  "total": 342,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 20,
  "data": [ ... ]
}

Param	Default	Range	Description
`page`	`1`	≥ 1	Page number
`per_page`	`20`	1–100	Results per page

total is the count of all records matching your filters, not just the current page.

Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
`GET`	`/investors/search`	Search investors with filters
`GET`	`/investors/{id}`	Get a single investor by ID
`GET`	`/funds/search`	Search funds with filters

Search Investors

GET /investors/search

All parameters are optional and accept multiple values (repeat the param, e.g. ?industry=Fintech&industry=AI).

Param	Multi-value	Combining logic
`name`	OR (substring match on each)	AND with other filters
`type`	OR	AND
`industry`	OR	AND
`stage`	OR	AND
`inv_size`	OR	AND
`minority`	OR	AND
`region`	OR	AND
`country`	OR	grouped with `state` / `city`
`state`	OR	grouped geo-group
`city`	OR	grouped geo-group
`fund_region`	OR	AND
`fund_industry`	OR	AND
`fund_type`	OR	AND
`fund_stage`	OR	AND
`fund_inv_size`	OR	AND
`fund_launched_after`	date (`YYYY-MM-DD`), ≥	AND
`fund_launched_before`	date (`YYYY-MM-DD`), ≤	AND

Combining logic

Multiple values within one filter are OR’d (matches any of the selected values).
Different filters are AND’d together (a result must satisfy all active filters).
country, state, and city form a single geo-group, OR’d together: ?country=Germany&city=Dubai returns investors from Germany or Dubai.
fund_* filters match investors who have at least one fund satisfying the condition.
type, stage, industry, inv_size, minority, region, and country each have a fixed set of valid values, and an unrecognized value returns 422 with a message naming the offending field(s) — see below for how to look up the accepted values for each. state and city are free text and aren’t validated this way.

Accepted Values for type, stage, minority, region

These filters (and their fund-level counterparts fund_type, fund_stage, fund_region) accept a short slug instead of the full label. Slugs are matched case-insensitively (type=Venture-Capital works the same as type=venture-capital).

`type` slug	Value
`private-equity`	Private Equity (PE)
`venture-capital`	Venture Capital (VC)
`angel-investor`	Angel investor
`corporate-vc`	Corporate VC (CVC)
`family-office`	Family office
`fund-of-funds`	Fund of funds
`debt-fund`	Debt fund

`stage` slug	Value
`pre-seed`	Pre-seed
`seed`	Seed
`series-a`	Series A
`series-b`	Series B
`late-stage`	Late Stage (Series C+)

`minority` slug	Value
`impact-investor`	Impact investor
`women`	Women
`people-of-color-and-other-minorities`	People of color and other minorities
`lgbtq`	LGBTQ

`region` slug	Value
`north-america`	North America
`south-america`	South America
`europe`	Europe
`middle-east`	Middle East
`africa`	Africa
`asia`	Asia
`australia-and-others`	Australia and others

Example: ?type=venture-capital&stage=seed&region=europe.

Slugs for industry, state, city, country

industry, state, city (and fund_industry) also accept a slug instead of the exact name — e.g. industry=financial-services instead of industry=Financial%20Services. The slug is just the value lowercased with spaces/special characters replaced by -, and you can always read the exact slug for a given value back from API responses (industries[].slug, location.city_slug, location.region_slug). industry has a fixed, closed list — see below. state and city don’t (free text, not validated). country has no stored slug, but a slug is still accepted: country=united-states is converted to United States before searching. Either form works — an unrecognized value is used as-is, so the exact name (country=United States) still works too. country also has a fixed, closed list — see below. All of the above are matched case-insensitively. inv_size has no slug and no lookup table here either — pass the exact value as returned in investment_size in API responses (e.g. "$1-5M").

Full list of industries (93)

Value	`industry` slug
3D printing	`3d-printing`
AdTech	`adtech`
Aerospace	`aerospace`
Agriculture	`agriculture`
AgriTech	`agritech`
AI	`ai`
Automotive	`automotive`
Biotechnology	`biotechnology`
Blockchain/Crypto	`blockchaincrypto`
Business Services (B2B)	`business-services-b2b`
Cannabis	`cannabis`
Chemicals	`chemicals`
CleanTech	`cleantech`
ClimateTech	`climatetech`
Cloud	`cloud`
Construction	`construction`
Consumer Products	`consumer-products`
Consumer Services (B2C)	`consumer-services-b2c`
Creator Economy	`creator-economy`
Cybersecurity	`cybersecurity`
Data infra	`data-infra`
Deeptech	`deeptech`
Defense	`defense`
Developer Tools	`developer-tools`
Digital	`digital`
E-commerce/Marketplace	`e-commercemarketplace`
Edtech	`edtech`
Education	`education`
Electronics	`electronics`
Energy	`energy`
Fashion/Beauty	`fashionbeauty`
Femtech	`femtech`
Financial Services	`financial-services`
Fintech	`fintech`
Food and Beverage	`food-and-beverage`
Foodtech	`foodtech`
Gaming	`gaming`
GovTech	`govtech`
Hardware	`hardware`
Healthcare Services	`healthcare-services`
HealthTech	`healthtech`
HoReCa/Hospitality	`horecahospitality`
HRTech	`hrtech`
Industrial	`industrial`
Infrastructure	`infrastructure`
InsurTech	`insurtech`
Internet and Web Services	`internet-and-web-services`
Internet of Things (IoT)	`internet-of-things-iot`
IT Services	`it-services`
KidTech/FamilyTech	`kidtech-famtech`
LegalTech	`legaltech`
Life Sciences	`life-sciences`
Logistics	`logistics`
Longevity / Wellness	`longevity-wellness`
Machine Learning (ML)	`machine-learning-ml`
Manufacturing	`manufacturing`
Marketing and Advertising	`marketing-and-advertising`
Media and Entertainment	`media-and-entertainment`
Medical Devices	`medical-devices`
MedTech	`medtech`
Metals and Mining	`metals-and-mining`
Mobile/Apps	`mobileapps`
Mobility	`mobility`
Music	`music`
Networking	`networking`
New materials	`new-materials`
Nuclear / Fusion	`nuclear-fusion`
Oil and Gas	`oil-and-gas`
Other	`other`
PetTech	`pettech`
Pharmaceuticals	`pharmaceuticals`
PropTech / ConTech	`proptech-contech`
Quantum Computing	`quantum-computing`
Real Estate	`real-estate`
RegTech / Compliance	`regtech-compliance`
Retail	`retail`
Robotics	`robotics`
SaaS	`saas`
Security	`security`
Semiconductors / Chips	`semiconductors-chips`
Sextech	`sextech`
Software	`software`
Sports/SportsTech	`sportssportstech`
Technology	`technology`
Telecommunications	`telecommunications`
Transportation	`transportation`
Travel	`travel`
TravelTech	`traveltech`
Utilities	`utilities`
VR/AR	`vrar`
WaterTech	`watertech`
WealthTech	`wealthtech`
Web3	`web3`

New industries are added occasionally on our end; if a value isn’t in the table above, it was likely added since this list was last updated — the current, authoritative slug for any industry is always available via industries[].slug in search responses.

Full list of countries (248)

Value	`country` slug
Afghanistan	`afghanistan`
Åland Islands	`aland-islands`
Albania	`albania`
Algeria	`algeria`
American Samoa	`american-samoa`
Andorra	`andorra`
Angola	`angola`
Anguilla	`anguilla`
Antarctica	`antarctica`
Antigua and Barbuda	`antigua-and-barbuda`
Argentina	`argentina`
Armenia	`armenia`
Aruba	`aruba`
Australia	`australia`
Austria	`austria`
Azerbaijan	`azerbaijan`
Bahamas	`bahamas`
Bahrain	`bahrain`
Bangladesh	`bangladesh`
Barbados	`barbados`
Belarus	`belarus`
Belgium	`belgium`
Belize	`belize`
Benin	`benin`
Bermuda	`bermuda`
Bhutan	`bhutan`
Bolivia	`bolivia`
Bosnia and Herzegovina	`bosnia-and-herzegovina`
Botswana	`botswana`
Bouvet Island	`bouvet-island`
Brazil	`brazil`
British Indian Ocean Territory	`british-indian-ocean-territory`
British Virgin Islands	`british-virgin-islands`
Brunei	`brunei`
Bulgaria	`bulgaria`
Burkina Faso	`burkina-faso`
Burundi	`burundi`
Cambodia	`cambodia`
Cameroon	`cameroon`
Canada	`canada`
Cape Verde	`cape-verde`
Cayman Islands	`cayman-islands`
Central African Republic	`central-african-republic`
Chad	`chad`
Chile	`chile`
China	`china`
Christmas Island	`christmas-island`
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	`cocos-keeling-islands`
Colombia	`colombia`
Comoros	`comoros`
Cook Islands	`cook-islands`
Costa Rica	`costa-rica`
Croatia	`croatia`
Cuba	`cuba`
Curaçao	`curacao`
Cyprus	`cyprus`
Czech Republic	`czech-republic`
Denmark	`denmark`
Djibouti	`djibouti`
Dominica	`dominica`
Dominican Republic	`dominican-republic`
DR Congo	`dr-congo`
Ecuador	`ecuador`
Egypt	`egypt`
El Salvador	`el-salvador`
Equatorial Guinea	`equatorial-guinea`
Eritrea	`eritrea`
Estonia	`estonia`
Ethiopia	`ethiopia`
Falkland Islands	`falkland-islands`
Faroe Islands	`faroe-islands`
Fiji	`fiji`
Finland	`finland`
France	`france`
French Guiana	`french-guiana`
French Polynesia	`french-polynesia`
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	`french-southern-and-antarctic-lands`
Gabon	`gabon`
Gambia	`gambia`
Georgia	`georgia`
Germany	`germany`
Ghana	`ghana`
Gibraltar	`gibraltar`
Greece	`greece`
Greenland	`greenland`
Grenada	`grenada`
Guadeloupe	`guadeloupe`
Guam	`guam`
Guatemala	`guatemala`
Guernsey	`guernsey`
Guinea	`guinea`
Guinea-Bissau	`guinea-bissau`
Guyana	`guyana`
Haiti	`haiti`
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	`heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands`
Honduras	`honduras`
Hong Kong	`hong-kong`
Hungary	`hungary`
Iceland	`iceland`
India	`india`
Indonesia	`indonesia`
Iran	`iran`
Iraq	`iraq`
Ireland	`ireland`
Isle of Man	`isle-of-man`
Israel	`israel`
Italy	`italy`
Ivory Coast	`ivory-coast`
Jamaica	`jamaica`
Japan	`japan`
Jersey	`jersey`
Jordan	`jordan`
Kazakhstan	`kazakhstan`
Kenya	`kenya`
Kiribati	`kiribati`
Kosovo	`kosovo`
Kuwait	`kuwait`
Kyrgyzstan	`kyrgyzstan`
Laos	`laos`
Latvia	`latvia`
Lebanon	`lebanon`
Lesotho	`lesotho`
Liberia	`liberia`
Libya	`libya`
Liechtenstein	`liechtenstein`
Lithuania	`lithuania`
Luxembourg	`luxembourg`
Macau	`macau`
Macedonia	`macedonia`
Madagascar	`madagascar`
Malawi	`malawi`
Malaysia	`malaysia`
Maldives	`maldives`
Mali	`mali`
Malta	`malta`
Marshall Islands	`marshall-islands`
Martinique	`martinique`
Mauritania	`mauritania`
Mauritius	`mauritius`
Mayotte	`mayotte`
Mexico	`mexico`
Micronesia	`micronesia`
Moldova	`moldova`
Monaco	`monaco`
Mongolia	`mongolia`
Montenegro	`montenegro`
Montserrat	`montserrat`
Morocco	`morocco`
Mozambique	`mozambique`
Myanmar	`myanmar`
Namibia	`namibia`
Nauru	`nauru`
Nepal	`nepal`
Netherlands	`netherlands`
New Caledonia	`new-caledonia`
New Zealand	`new-zealand`
Nicaragua	`nicaragua`
Niger	`niger`
Nigeria	`nigeria`
Niue	`niue`
Norfolk Island	`norfolk-island`
North Korea	`north-korea`
Northern Mariana Islands	`northern-mariana-islands`
Norway	`norway`
Oman	`oman`
Pakistan	`pakistan`
Palau	`palau`
Palestine	`palestine`
Panama	`panama`
Papua New Guinea	`papua-new-guinea`
Paraguay	`paraguay`
Peru	`peru`
Philippines	`philippines`
Pitcairn Islands	`pitcairn-islands`
Poland	`poland`
Portugal	`portugal`
Puerto Rico	`puerto-rico`
Qatar	`qatar`
Republic of the Congo	`republic-of-the-congo`
Réunion	`reunion`
Romania	`romania`
Russia	`russia`
Rwanda	`rwanda`
Saint Barthélemy	`saint-barthelemy`
Saint Kitts and Nevis	`saint-kitts-and-nevis`
Saint Lucia	`saint-lucia`
Saint Martin	`saint-martin`
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	`saint-pierre-and-miquelon`
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	`saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines`
Samoa	`samoa`
San Marino	`san-marino`
São Tomé and Príncipe	`sao-tome-and-principe`
Saudi Arabia	`saudi-arabia`
Senegal	`senegal`
Serbia	`serbia`
Seychelles	`seychelles`
Sierra Leone	`sierra-leone`
Singapore	`singapore`
Sint Maarten	`sint-maarten`
Slovakia	`slovakia`
Slovenia	`slovenia`
Solomon Islands	`solomon-islands`
Somalia	`somalia`
South Africa	`south-africa`
South Georgia	`south-georgia`
South Korea	`south-korea`
South Sudan	`south-sudan`
Spain	`spain`
Sri Lanka	`sri-lanka`
Sudan	`sudan`
Suriname	`suriname`
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	`svalbard-and-jan-mayen`
Swaziland	`swaziland`
Sweden	`sweden`
Switzerland	`switzerland`
Syria	`syria`
Taiwan	`taiwan`
Tajikistan	`tajikistan`
Tanzania	`tanzania`
Thailand	`thailand`
Timor-Leste	`timor-leste`
Togo	`togo`
Tokelau	`tokelau`
Tonga	`tonga`
Trinidad and Tobago	`trinidad-and-tobago`
Tunisia	`tunisia`
Turkey	`turkey`
Turkmenistan	`turkmenistan`
Turks and Caicos Islands	`turks-and-caicos-islands`
Tuvalu	`tuvalu`
Uganda	`uganda`
Ukraine	`ukraine`
United Arab Emirates	`united-arab-emirates`
United Kingdom	`united-kingdom`
United States	`united-states`
United States Minor Outlying Islands	`united-states-minor-outlying-islands`
United States Virgin Islands	`united-states-virgin-islands`
Uruguay	`uruguay`
Uzbekistan	`uzbekistan`
Vanuatu	`vanuatu`
Vatican City	`vatican-city`
Venezuela	`venezuela`
Vietnam	`vietnam`
Wallis and Futuna	`wallis-and-futuna`
Western Sahara	`western-sahara`
Yemen	`yemen`
Zambia	`zambia`
Zimbabwe	`zimbabwe`

curl "https://<api-base-url>/investors/search?industry=Fintech&region=Europe&page=1&per_page=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

{
  "total": 12,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 20,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 101,
      "name": "Example Capital",
      "slug": "example-capital",
      "website": "https://example.com",
      "contact_person": "Jane Doe",
      "contact_person_title": "Partner",
      "general_email": "[email protected]",
      "contact_information": null,
      "establishment": "2010",
      "establishment_month": 3,
      "description": "A growth-stage investor focused on fintech.",
      "address": null,
      "horizon": null,
      "management_funds": null,
      "logo": "https://example.com/logo.png",
      "portfolio_companies": null,
      "twitter": null,
      "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/example",
      "is_new": false,
      "is_active": true,
      "last_date_fund": "2023-05-01",
      "created_at": "2022-01-15T10:00:00",
      "updated_at": "2024-02-01T12:00:00",
      "investment_size": "$1M-$5M",
      "industries": [{ "id": 3, "name": "Fintech", "slug": "fintech" }],
      "types": [{ "id": 1, "name": "VC" }],
      "investment_stages": [{ "id": 2, "name": "Series A" }],
      "exit_strategies": [{ "id": 1, "name": "IPO" }],
      "fund_regions": [{ "id": 4, "name": "Europe" }],
      "minorities": [],
      "contacts": [
        { "id": 55, "name": "Jane Doe", "title": "Partner", "email": "[email protected]", "linkedin": null, "twitter": null, "logo": null }
      ],
      "location": {
        "id": 200,
        "city": "Berlin",
        "city_slug": "berlin",
        "region": null,
        "region_slug": null,
        "country": "Germany",
        "latitude": 52.52,
        "longitude": 13.405
      },
      "funds": [
        {
          "id": 30,
          "name": "Example Fund I",
          "investor_id": 101,
          "aum": "$200M",
          "launched_at": "2019-06-01T00:00:00",
          "types": [{ "id": 1, "name": "VC" }],
          "industries": [{ "id": 3, "name": "Fintech", "slug": "fintech" }],
          "investment_stages": [{ "id": 2, "name": "Series A" }],
          "fund_regions": [{ "id": 4, "name": "Europe" }],
          "investment_size": "$1M-$5M"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Get a Single Investor

GET /investors/{id}

Returns a single investor with the same fields and associations as /investors/search. Returns 404 if the investor doesn’t exist, or 422 if id isn’t a positive integer.

Request

curl "https://<api-base-url>/investors/101" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

Search Funds

GET /funds/search

All parameters are optional, accept multiple values, and are AND’d together.

Param	Notes
`region`	OR within param
`industry`	OR within param
`type`	OR within param
`stage`	OR within param
`inv_size`	OR within param
`launched_after`	date (`YYYY-MM-DD`), ≥
`launched_before`	date (`YYYY-MM-DD`), ≤

region, type, and stage accept the same slugs as in /investors/search — see Accepted Values above. industry accepts a slug the same way described in Slugs for industry, state, city, country. All five (region, industry, type, stage, inv_size) are validated the same way — an unrecognized value returns 422.

curl "https://<api-base-url>/funds/search?industry=Fintech&launched_after=2020-01-01&page=1&per_page=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

{
  "total": 5,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 20,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 30,
      "name": "Example Fund I",
      "investor_id": 101,
      "aum": "$200M",
      "launched_at": "2019-06-01T00:00:00",
      "types": [{ "id": 1, "name": "VC" }],
      "industries": [{ "id": 3, "name": "Fintech", "slug": "fintech" }],
      "investment_stages": [{ "id": 2, "name": "Series A" }],
      "fund_regions": [{ "id": 4, "name": "Europe" }],
      "investment_size": "$1M-$5M"
    }
  ]
}

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Private Equity List API Reference

TL;DR

Authentication

Error Responses

Endpoints

Search Investors

Accepted Values for type, stage, minority, region

Slugs for industry, state, city, country

Get a Single Investor

Search Funds

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​TL;DR

​Authentication

​Error Responses

​Pagination

​Endpoints

​Search Investors

​Accepted Values for type, stage, minority, region

​Slugs for industry, state, city, country

​Get a Single Investor

​Search Funds

​Need Help?

TL;DR

Authentication

Error Responses

Pagination

Endpoints

Search Investors

Accepted Values for type, stage, minority, region

Slugs for industry, state, city, country

Get a Single Investor

Search Funds

Need Help?