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• search_startups

  Search the startup database with any combination of filters: name, sector, country, city radius, founded date, team size, the latest funding round (round_series, raised_after), total funding, valuation, investors (backed_by), StartupHub…

• find_stealth_startups

  Convenience wrapper around search_startups pre-tuned for fresh-stealth deal-flow. Returns active stealth startups with their detected tech stack (CDN, email provider, analytics), RDAP domain registration date, and a has_known_emails flag…

• search_domains

  Domain radar: newly registered names from our discovery queue (NRD, registries, GitHub orgs). This is NOT a company profile. Returns apex, registration date, registrar, mailbox signal, quality score, and status (queued / quality_failed)…

• get_startup

  Get full profile for a startup by slug Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_startup_by_domain

  Look up a single startup by its website domain. Accepts raw URLs (https://www.example.com/about), stripped (example.com), with or without paths. Returns the full profile. Use match_companies_by_domain instead for batches of 2+ domains…

• scan_company_technology

  Tech Stack Checker. Return hosting, frameworks, analytics, payments, and mail setup for a company website. Checks a stored fingerprint first, then a fresh live read when live=true. Accepts a URL or a plain domain. Costs 1 credit. Needs a…

• get_startup_socials

  Lightweight endpoint that returns ONLY a startup's contact emails (contact / partnerships / press) and social URLs (LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, YouTube, Discord, Slack, etc.) plus HQ city/country. Cheaper than get_startup (1 db…

• get_person_by_email

  Reverse-lookup a person profile by their email address. Pairs naturally with discover_email + validate_email: discover an email, verify it, find the person record. Returns the full person profile. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_person_by_social

  Reverse-lookup a person profile by any of their social URLs/handles. Pass linkedin, twitter, or github (full URL like https://www.linkedin.com/in/foo, OR just the handle 'foo'). Multiple params allowed: first match wins. Returns the full…

• get_investor_by_domain

  Look up a single investor (VC, angel, accelerator) by their website domain. Same shape as get_startup_by_domain, against the investors table. Useful when you have a fund's website and want fund profile / portfolio info. Needs a free…

• get_investor_by_social

  Reverse-lookup an investor profile by their LinkedIn or Twitter URL/handle. Investor LinkedIns are typically /company/<slug>, but the lookup handles both /in/ and /company/ patterns. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_startup_funding_history

  Full chronological list of investment rounds for a startup: amount, series, date, pre/post-money valuation, lead and participating investor IDs, plus a summary with total raised from rounds and the latest round date/series. Use after…

• list_startup_team

  Returns founders, current team, and board members for a startup, split by role. Each person record includes name, title, slug, LinkedIn, Twitter, description, and primary_email if visible to your plan tier. Use this to build org-charts…

• enrich_email

  One-call CRM/inbox enrichment. Pass an email, get back: matched person record (if known), the email's domain matched against startups + investors (with funding intel for VC-backed scoring), a heuristic name guess from the local part if…

• search_investors

  Find investors that match a startup's profile. Filter by sector_focus (e.g. 'Artificial Intelligence' for AI investors), stage_focus (Seed / Series A / etc.), geo_focus, cheque_min / cheque_max (matches investors whose cheque-size window…

• search_people

  Search founders, executives, board members, and key team members Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• find_logo

  Find square and horizontal logos for a company

• enrich_company

  Build a company profile from a name and optional website or LinkedIn URL. Returns the description, sector, headquarters, founding year, and public links that were found. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• validate_email

  Verify if a single email address is real and deliverable. Returns {valid, status, confidence_score}. Use when you already know the address (e.g. from a contact page, LinkedIn, or a prior discover_email run) and want to confirm it before…

• discover_email

  Find a real, deliverable professional email for a person at a company. Pass first name + last name + the company domain; get back the verified address, a confidence score, and a short note about who it likely reaches. Charges 1 credit…

• match_companies_by_domain

  Bulk-match an array of advertiser/company domains against StartupHub.ai's startup database. Returns per-domain whether the company is in our database, plus funding amount, latest round, investor IDs, sectors, founded date, and HQ country…

• list_credit_packs

  Get credit pack pricing AND a checkout URL the user can open to buy more credits. Returns { buy_url: 'https://www.startuphub.ai/pricing?buy=credits', pricing: { validate: [...tiers], discover: [...tiers] } }: surface the buy_url to the…

• get_my_usage

  Check the user's current credit balance: plan tier, daily + monthly limits per credit type (validate, discover, db, profile, logo, enrich, submit), used today, remaining today, used this month, remaining this month, and any never-expiring…

• scan_agent_readiness

  Scans a public site against current AI-agent readiness standards, including the llms.txt v2 shape (H1, summary, described links, and whether those links resolve). Returns a 0-100 score plus per-check pass/fail with a copy-paste fix prompt…

• get_trends

  Get a structured, real-time snapshot of what's happening in the AI startup ecosystem right now — capital deployed this week, top sectors and countries (with week-over-week change), biggest rounds, stage breakdown with median check sizes…

• query_funding

  Answer how much funding was raised, how many rounds closed, or how many companies were founded, for a country, sector, series, and year. This is the StartupHub /analysis chart as data. Use it for questions like 'how much funding did…

• get_arbitrage

  Live cross-venue prediction-market arbitrage board. Returns the same real-world events priced on Polymarket, Kalshi/Robinhood, and PredictIt side by side, with a real arbitrage flagged whenever the combined cost of locking a $1 payout…

• generate_startup_list

  Prompt → curated startup list. Pass a natural-language brief like 'stealth AI agent startups in Israel founded after 2024' and the engine runs a Google-grounded search, parses results, finds-or-creates the matching startup rows in…

• publish_to_wordpress

  Publish HTML to a WordPress site using the site's Application Password. Creates a post with the given title and HTML body. status is draft, publish, or pending. Default is draft. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• submit_startup

  Submit a new startup profile. A website is enough. Name, description, and sectors are optional. If you send only a website, the profile is listed on the free plan and the rest is filled in from that site. Gambling and adult content stay…

• submit_investor

  Submit a new investor profile (VC, angel, accelerator, etc.). Lists it on the free plan immediately, same as submit_startup. Third-person prose, no HTML/markdown, no listicle titles. Costs 5 credits. Deduped by website domain or name and…

• submit_product

  Submit a product / tool / API / library / agent / model / dataset / hardware onto an existing company or organization. startup_slug or startup_id is required. Costs 5 credits. Strict format: third-person prose, no HTML/markdown, no…

• submit_funding_round

  Announce a funding round for a startup you own (created_by must match your API key user). Strict: series from controlled vocab (Pre-seed/Seed/Series A.../Crowdfunding), USD amount, YYYY-MM-DD date, third-person description. Optional…

• submit_exit_event

  Announce an IPO / Acquisition / Merger / SPAC / Buyout / Closure for a startup you own. acquirer_name required for Acquisition/Merger; stock_exchange + ticker required for IPO/SPAC. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• submit_research

  Submit a research paper / preprint for inclusion. Optional startup link. Dedup by arxiv_id or doi. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• submit_patent

  Submit a patent record. patent_number required (e.g. "US12345678B2"). Dedup by patent_number. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• submit_news

  Submit a news article / press release. Strict: third-person, controlled categories, 100–10000 words. Dedup by source_url or by similar title within 30d. Lands in pending status; admin approves. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai…

• update_startup

  Update a startup you submitted (API key user matches created_by) or that you have a verified claim on. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it or turn it into a bill. Costs…

• update_investor

  Update an investor you previously submitted. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• update_person

  Update a person you previously submitted. Pass slug plus only the fields to change. The profile stays on the free listing. An edit does not hide it. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• update_product

  Update a product you previously submitted (new feature, pricing, or a new version). Pass slug plus only the fields to change. An edit does not hide a live product. Costs 1 db credit. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• submit_person

  Submit a new person profile (founder, executive, board member). Lists them on the free plan immediately. Requires either current_title or linkedin_url. Third-person bio. Costs 5 credits. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_advertiser_analytics

  Live performance for ads owned by your account: impressions, clicks, CTR, daily trend, by-placement (article / profile_page / search / homepage / agent_readiness) and by-variant breakdown. Same JSON shape returned by GET…

• submit_list

  Submit a new editorial list (e.g. "Top 10 AI dev-tools startups", "Best seed-stage fintech companies") to StartupHub.ai for moderation review. Lists are collections of existing startups, investors, and/or people on the site: provide their…

• deep_intelligence

  Run a deep-intelligence lookup on any entity across our graph of 65M+ business profiles and 6B+ data points. Give a name, company, domain, LinkedIn URL, or email and get a consolidated dossier: company facts, funding, people…

• get_company_by_linkedin

  Resolve a company from its LinkedIn URL and enrich it against our 65M+ profile graph: funding, founders, sectors, score, domain, and technographics. Same result as POST /api/v1/companies/by-linkedin. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_company_funding

  Funding intelligence for a company by domain: total raised, rounds, latest round, investors, and dates, drawn from our enrichment graph. Same result as GET /api/v1/companies/funding. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• get_company_hiring

  Hiring-signal intelligence: companies actively posting roles, ranked by open-role velocity, with counts and links. A growth/traction signal for deal-flow and sales prospecting. Same result as GET /api/v1/companies/hiring. Needs a free…

• get_youtube_transcript

  Fetch the full transcript plus metadata (title, channel, duration) for any YouTube video. Accepts a watch, youtu.be, Shorts, or mobile URL, or a raw video ID. No LLM: returns the raw caption text for downstream summarization or…

• generate_youtube_article

  Turn a YouTube URL into an article with a title, excerpt, HTML, and Markdown. Costs one YouTube-to-Article credit. If the call is slow, call get_youtube_transcript first, then call this tool again with url and transcript. Needs a free…

• generate_article_video

  Article to YouTube. Turn an article URL, or a block of text, into a narrated video with captions. Returns a job id right away. Call get_article_video with that job_id until status is done, then use mp4_url. Requires an API key and charges…

• get_article_video

  Poll an article-to-video job started by generate_article_video. Returns status, progress, and mp4_url when status is done. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• suggest_youtube_clips

  YouTube to Clips. Pick moments from a captioned public video, with timestamps and the on-screen quote. If status is processing, call this again with the same url. Render one result with render_youtube_clip. Requires an API key. Needs a…

• render_youtube_clip

  Render one YouTube clip. Pass video_url, start_seconds, end_seconds, and quote from suggest_youtube_clips. Returns a job id. Call get_youtube_clip until status is done. Requires an API key and charges clip credits. Needs a free…

• get_youtube_clip

  Poll a clip render started by render_youtube_clip. Returns status, progress, and mp4_url when status is done. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• generate_rss_feed

  RSS Feed Generator. Build a feed for a site, including one that never published a feed. Pass the site url. Returns feed_xml and a feed_url. Free, rate-limited.

• humanize_text

  Humanize AI Text. Rewrite a passage so it reads as natural prose, without changing the facts. Up to 12 paragraphs and 20000 characters per call. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• generate_visual_tldr

  Visual TL;DR. Build a diagram and a short summary from an article. Pass title and content_html (HTML or the article text). Returns markdown and image_url. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• check_domain_rating

  Ahrefs Domain Rating, 0 to 100, for a domain. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

• check_effective_domain_rating

  Effective Domain Rating: a 0 to 100 read of visibility that is actually realized, set next to Ahrefs Domain Rating. Often takes 30 to 60 seconds. Requires an API key. Needs a free StartupHub.ai account.

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