Resolve Investors

Introduction

Turn what a user typed - an investor name, a ticker or a website or domain (a16z.com) - into a Multiples investor ID, then call the investor endpoints with that ID (/investors/{id}, /investors/{id}/investments, /investors/{id}/co_investors, /investors/{id}/portfolio).

Resolve is free: it is not charged against your monthly record quota. It returns reference fields only - ID, name, country, website, and ticker and exchange for listed investors.

It works exactly like Resolve Companies - same matching order, same match_type and matched_on values, same response fields - but only returns organisations that led a funding round, participated in one, or acquired a company.

Set up

Endpoints

GET  https://multiples.vc/api/private/v1/investors/resolve?q={query}
POST https://multiples.vc/api/private/v1/investors/resolve

Use GET for a single lookup (?q=sequoia%20capital) and POST for up to 200 at once.

Request

{
  "queries": [
    "Sequoia Capital",
    "a16z.com",
    "Sequoi",
    "Zzqx Nonexistent VC"
  ]
}

field	type	description
`q`	string	`GET`, required. One name, ticker or website/domain, up to 200 characters.
`queries`	string[]	`POST`, required. 1 to 200 names, tickers or websites/domains, each a non-empty string of up to 200 characters. The older field name `names` is still accepted; send one or the other.

Response

One match object per query, in the same order (GET returns a single object). Below, candidates is truncated to 3 of 5.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "query": "Sequoia Capital",
      "match_type": "exact",
      "matched_on": "name",
      "id": "9918f9bb-0d74-434d-9029-a44cbee87637",
      "name": "Sequoia Capital",
      "country": "USA",
      "website": "http://www.sequoiacap.com",
      "ticker": null,
      "exchange": null
    },
    {
      "query": "a16z.com",
      "match_type": "exact",
      "matched_on": "domain",
      "id": "8433767b-a7ba-48a0-b509-49131878380b",
      "name": "Andreessen Horowitz",
      "country": "USA",
      "website": "http://www.a16z.com",
      "ticker": null,
      "exchange": null
    },
    {
      "query": "Sequoi",
      "match_type": "ambiguous",
      "matched_on": null,
      "id": null,
      "candidates": [
        {
          "id": "682e8a71-8e0f-4106-b8fe-f747a150876e",
          "name": "Sequoia Fund",
          "country": "USA",
          "website": "https://www.sequoiafund.com",
          "ticker": null,
          "exchange": null,
          "matched_on": "name",
          "score": 0.5
        },
        {
          "id": "6b4dcb9f-8e91-4339-a83b-c688e7025072",
          "name": "Sequoia Apps",
          "country": "USA",
          "website": "http://www.sequoia-apps.com",
          "ticker": null,
          "exchange": null,
          "matched_on": "name",
          "score": 0.5
        },
        {
          "id": "7f9fd290-6ace-41fa-8f9c-58f4686a6988",
          "name": "Sequoia Inc.",
          "country": null,
          "website": "https://www.sequoia.co.jp/",
          "ticker": null,
          "exchange": null,
          "matched_on": "name",
          "score": 0.5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "query": "Zzqx Nonexistent VC",
      "match_type": "no_match",
      "matched_on": null,
      "id": null
    }
  ]
}

Fields - see Resolve Companies. meta.usage is always { "records_billable": 0, "records_charged": 0 }: resolve is free. ambiguous means several investors could be meant: ask the user which one rather than searching wider.

Introduction

Set up

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