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Access structured data on 295+ startup investors from Mercury's investor database. Get investment stages, check sizes, industries, contact emails, and LinkedIn URLs.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/3b12d241-9721-45c1-893c-8a035c34648f/get_all_investors' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get all investors from the Mercury investor database. Returns structured data for all 295 investors including name, company, role, type, industries, stages, check size range, lead preference, and geography. Extracted from a single page load.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer - total number of investors",
"investors": "array of investor objects with slug, name, first_name, last_name, company, role, type, industries, stages, minimum_check_size, maximum_check_size, check_range, leads_rounds, geography"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 295,
"investors": [
{
"name": "Aaron Holiday",
"role": "General Partner",
"slug": "aaron-holiday",
"type": "Early stage VC",
"stages": [
"Pre-seed",
"Seed",
"Series A"
],
"company": "645 Ventures",
"geography": [
"Africa",
"Europe",
"Latin America"
],
"last_name": "Holiday",
"first_name": "Aaron",
"industries": [
"AI/ML",
"API",
"AR/VR"
],
"check_range": "$1M-$5M",
"leads_rounds": "Prefers to lead",
"maximum_check_size": 5000000,
"minimum_check_size": 1000000
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the mercury.com API
The Mercury Investor Database API covers all 295+ investors listed on mercury.com/investor-database across 2 endpoints. Use get_all_investors to retrieve the full roster in a single call — including investment stages, check size ranges, industries, and investor type — then drill into any individual profile with get_investor_detail to get the bio, investment philosophy, contact email, and LinkedIn URL.
What the API returns
The get_all_investors endpoint returns the complete investor list in one response. Each investor object includes a slug, name, company, role, type (VC, angel, seed fund, etc.), industries, stages, minimum_check_size, max check size, lead preference, and geography. The total field confirms the count of investors in the response.
Investor detail
Passing a slug string (e.g. 'aaron-holiday') to get_investor_detail returns a richer profile: full bio, investment_philosophy, investment highlights, how the investor works with founders, email, linkedin, and twitter. Slugs are available from the investors[*].slug field in the list endpoint, making it straightforward to iterate the full database and enrich each record.
Data shape and coverage
Investor type distinguishes VCs, angels, and seed funds. stages is a comma-separated string covering pre-seed through growth. email and twitter fields may be null when not publicly listed by Mercury. The database reflects Mercury's curated selection and does not index the broader VC universe — coverage is limited to the ~295 profiles Mercury has chosen to include.
- Build a filterable investor search tool using
industries,stages, and check size range fields - Export a CSV of investor contact emails and LinkedIn URLs for fundraising outreach
- Identify lead investors by filtering on the
lead preferencefield fromget_all_investors - Segment investors by geography and stage to target region-specific seed rounds
- Enrich a CRM with investor bios and investment philosophy pulled from
get_investor_detail - Map investor type distribution (VC vs. angel vs. seed fund) across the full database
- Cross-reference investor industries with a startup's sector to shortlist relevant funds
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Mercury have an official developer API for its investor database?+
What does `get_investor_detail` return beyond what `get_all_investors` includes?+
get_all_investors returns the roster-level fields: name, company, role, type, industries, stages, check size range, lead preference, and geography. get_investor_detail adds the full biography, investment philosophy, investment highlights, how the investor works with founders, contact email, LinkedIn URL, and Twitter/X URL. You need the investor's slug from the list endpoint to call the detail endpoint.Are contact emails available for all investors?+
email field in get_investor_detail is nullable — it returns null when Mercury's public profile page does not list an email address. The same applies to twitter. linkedin is more consistently populated but may also be null for some profiles.Can I filter investors by stage or industry directly through the API?+
get_all_investors endpoint returns all investors in a single response without server-side filtering parameters. Filtering by stages, industries, check size, or geography needs to be done client-side on the returned array. The full dataset is small enough (~295 records) to handle this in memory.