Startup funding API tutorial

How to Track Newly Funded Startups in 10 Minutes

Recently funded startups are useful signals for sales, recruiting, market research, investment scouting, competitive intelligence, and media monitoring.

The hard part is not just finding one funding announcement. The hard part is turning funding activity into structured data you can filter, store, enrich, and use in a real workflow.

The ShakeChillies Funding Tracker API helps you search recent startup funding rounds from RapidAPI and return structured results with company details, funding stage, investors, location, website links, and LinkedIn profile URLs when available.

Startup funding tracker workflow showing recently funded companies becoming a lead list

What you can build with this API

Find startups that recently raised funding.
Build sales prospecting lists based on funding activity.
Monitor funding rounds by country, stage, industry, or time period.
Feed startup data into a CRM or spreadsheet.
Track market activity for research or investment workflows.
Build a lightweight deal-flow or market-intelligence dashboard.

API used in this tutorial

RapidAPI listing: Funding Tracker API by ShakeChillies

Main endpoints:

GET /funding/search — search funding rounds with filters.
GET /funding/enums — get allowed values for filters such as funding stages, countries, and time periods.

Availability can vary by company and round, so your application should treat enriched fields such as website, LinkedIn URL, investors, and exact funding amount as optional.

Before you start

Create or open your RapidAPI account.
Subscribe to the Funding Tracker listing.
Copy your RapidAPI key from the endpoint playground.

Step 1: Check the available filters

If you are building a UI or repeatable workflow, start with the enum endpoint.

GET /funding/enums

Step 2: Search recent funding rounds

For a basic prospecting workflow, start with a small search:

GET /funding/search

Example filters you might use:

time_period: 30d
stage: Seed
country: US

Example request in JavaScript

const url = new URL("https://funding-tracker.p.rapidapi.com/funding/search");

url.searchParams.set("time_period", "30d");
url.searchParams.set("stage", "Seed");
url.searchParams.set("country", "US");

const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY",
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "funding-tracker.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();

console.log(data);

If the RapidAPI playground shows a different host, parameter name, or generated code snippet, use the values from the playground.

Example response shape

{
  "company": "Example Robotics",
  "stage": "Seed",
  "amount": 3500000,
  "currency": "USD",
  "date": "2026-07-01",
  "investors": ["Example Ventures", "Seed Capital Group"],
  "country": "US",
  "industry": "Robotics",
  "website": "https://example.com",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-robotics"
}

Treat this as a representative shape, not a guarantee that every field will exist for every record.

const rounds = Array.isArray(data.results) ? data.results : [];

const rows = rounds.map((round) => ({
  company: round.company ?? "Unknown company",
  stage: round.stage ?? null,
  amount: round.amount ?? null,
  currency: round.currency ?? null,
  date: round.date ?? null,
  investors: round.investors ?? [],
  website: round.website ?? null,
  linkedinUrl: round.linkedin_url ?? null
}));

A simple sales workflow

Search for companies funded in the last 30 days.
Filter by stage, country, or industry.
Export company names, websites, LinkedIn URLs, funding stage, and investors.
Enrich the companies further if needed.
Push the final list into a CRM, spreadsheet, or internal research tool.

Tips for production use

Start with narrow filters before running broad searches.
Store the date when you fetched the data.
Treat funding amount, investors, website, and LinkedIn URL as optional fields.
Cache repeated searches where possible.
Use the enum endpoint to keep UI filters aligned with supported values.
Review results before triggering automated outreach.

Try it on RapidAPI

Open the Funding Tracker API on RapidAPI

Disclosure: this guide is maintained by ShakeChillies. Sample results are illustrative; supported fields and filters should be checked against the current RapidAPI playground.