Quickstart

Funding rounds for any company, from its website.

Send a company's website. Get back its funding rounds: stage, amount, date and investors.

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Profoundtryprofound.comfound

$334.5Mraised across 5 rounds

The real answer below, drawn to scale.

Have your API key ready

Every request needs it. Wherever you see YOUR_API_KEY below, put your key there.

Send a request

curl -X POST https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain": "tryprofound.com"}'

const res = await fetch('https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ domain: 'tryprofound.com' }),
})
const answer = await res.json()
console.log(answer.status, answer.latest_round)

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"domain": "tryprofound.com"},
)
answer = res.json()
print(answer["status"], answer.get("latest_round"))

Any form of the website works: tryprofound.com, https://www.tryprofound.com/about. You can also send a name or a LinkedIn page, but only the website can look up a company Prova has never seen. Every option is on The request.

Read the answer

This is the real answer for Profound, newest round first:

Answer

{
  "status": "found",
  "company": { "name": "Profound", "domain": "tryprofound.com", "public": null },
  "latest_round": {
    "stage": "series_d",
    "amount": 180000000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "investors": ["Evantic Capital", "Khosla Ventures", "Sequoia Arc", "Saga Ventures", "Kleiner Perkins", "Lightspeed Venture Partners", "South Park Commons"],
    "source": "confirmed"
  },
  "rounds": [
    {
      "stage": "series_d",
      "amount": 180000000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "date": "2026-09-15",
      "investors": ["Evantic Capital", "Khosla Ventures", "Sequoia Arc", "Saga Ventures", "Kleiner Perkins", "Lightspeed Venture Partners", "South Park Commons"],
      "source": "confirmed"
    },
    {
      "stage": "series_c",
      "amount": 96000000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "date": "2026-02-24",
      "investors": ["Kleiner Perkins", "Saga Ventures", "Lightspeed Venture Partners", "Sequoia Arc", "South Park Commons", "Evantic Capital"],
      "source": "confirmed"
    },
    {
      "stage": "series_b",
      "amount": 35000000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "date": "2025-08-12",
      "investors": ["Kleiner Perkins", "Saga Ventures", "Khosla Ventures", "Sequoia Arc", "South Park Commons"],
      "source": "confirmed"
    },
    {
      "stage": "series_a",
      "amount": 20000000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "date": "2025-06-19",
      "investors": ["Kleiner Perkins", "Karim Atiyeh", "David Senra", "NVentures", "Andrew Karam", "Saga Ventures", "South Park Commons", "SV Angel", "Jordi Hays", "Jordan Singer", "Khosla Ventures", "Guillermo Rauch", "Kevin Wang"],
      "source": "verified"
    },
    {
      "stage": "seed",
      "amount": 3500000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "date": "2024-08-13",
      "investors": ["Saga Ventures", "Balaji Srinivasan", "Scott Belsky", "Khosla Ventures", "South Park Commons", "Thomson Nguyen", "Ben Braverman"],
      "source": "confirmed"
    }
  ]
}

status is always one of three words:

found

Funding was found. rounds lists every round, and latest_round is the newest one. This is the only answer you pay for.

not_found

No funding was found. message says why. Free.

pending

Prova is still looking, usually for a company it hasn't seen before. Send the same request again in a few seconds. Free.

Next: try a few companies in the Playground, or read what each field means.

Get started

Playground

Look up any company and see the answer the API sends back.

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Reference

The request

One POST with a small JSON body. Name the company one way. Everything else is optional.

Endpoint

POST https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

Which company

Send exactly one of these three.

Field	Example	Notes
`domain`	`"tryprofound.com"`	The company's website. Any form works: `tryprofound.com`, `https://www.tryprofound.com/about`. The best choice. It is the only one that can look up a company Prova has never seen.
`name`	`"Deel"`	The company's name. It finds only companies Prova already has. Several companies can share a name ("Profound" fits several). You then get `not_found` with a list of `candidates` to pick from by website.
`linkedinSlug`	`"acme-inc"`	The company's LinkedIn page, as its short name or the full address (`https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-inc`). It finds only companies Prova already has.

Options

Field	Values	What it does
`country`	`"US"`, `"GB"`, `"IN"`…	Two-letter country code. Used only with `name`, to pick between companies that share a name.
`refresh`	`"auto"` (default)	Answers with everything on the first request. A company Prova has never seen, or has but hasn't checked yet, is checked first, usually in the same reply (about 4 to 6 seconds). After that, its answers are instant.
	`"never"`	Answers only from what Prova already has. It never waits and never starts a search: a company Prova doesn't have comes back `not_found` at once.
	`"force"`	Looks the company up again now, even if Prova has it (about 4 to 6 seconds). Use it only when you expect new funding.
`view`	`"full"`	Leave it out for the normal answer. `"full"` gives the same answer with each round's sources listed under it: the kind of source, the link, the date and the exact sentence that states the round, plus notes in plain words (for example, that a round comes from Metal and isn't checked yet).

Examples

Request bodies

{ "domain": "tryprofound.com" }
{ "name": "Deel", "country": "US" }
{ "linkedinSlug": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-inc" }
{ "domain": "tryprofound.com", "refresh": "never" }
{ "domain": "tryprofound.com", "view": "full" }

For many companies at once, put up to 100 of these bodies in {"items": [...]}.

Mistakes

A body that doesn't fit gets HTTP 422 with a sentence saying what to fix, for example {"error": "send exactly one of name, domain or linkedinSlug"}. Mistakes are free.

Older options are still accepted: max_age_seconds, allow_stale, scope, history_since and require_completed_research. They control deep research, which is turned off, so leave them out. With them, a request can stay pending.

Reference

The answer

Every lookup returns one of three statuses. Check status first.

status	HTTP	What to do	Price
`found`	200	Read `latest_round` and `rounds`.	$0.01
`not_found`	200	Nothing to read. `message` says why.	Free
`pending`	202	Send the same request again in a few seconds.	Free

found

Answer (shortened)

{
  "status": "found",
  "company": { "name": "Profound", "domain": "tryprofound.com", "public": null },
  "latest_round": {
    "stage": "series_d",
    "amount": 180000000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "date": "2026-09-15",
    "investors": ["Evantic Capital", "Khosla Ventures", "Sequoia Arc", "Kleiner Perkins"],
    "source": "confirmed"
  },
  "rounds": [
    { "stage": "series_d", "amount": 180000000, "currency": "USD", "date": "2026-09-15", "investors": ["Evantic Capital", "Khosla Ventures"], "source": "confirmed" },
    { "stage": "series_a", "amount": 20000000, "currency": "USD", "date": "2025-06-19", "investors": ["Kleiner Perkins"], "source": "verified" },
    { "stage": "seed", "amount": 3500000, "currency": "USD", "date": "2024-08-13", "investors": ["Saga Ventures"], "source": "confirmed" }
  ]
}

Field	What it is
`company`	The company's `name`, `domain` (website) and `public`: where it trades if it's a listed company (`{"exchange": "NYSE", "ticker": "FIG"}`), else `null`.
`latest_round`	The newest round. It is `null` when a newer round is reported somewhere but not confirmed yet. In that case Prova won't guess, and the older rounds are still in `rounds`. For a public company it is the IPO.
`rounds`	Every round found, newest first. Each round has the six fields below.
`stage`	`pre_seed`, `seed`, `series_a`, `series_b` and so on. Less common stages look the same: `series_a2`, `series_c_plus`, `bridge`, `convertible_note`, `series_b_extension`. `ipo` when the company went public. `null` if no source names the stage.
`amount`	The new money raised in this round, as a plain number (`180000000` is $180 million). Never a valuation or a total. `null` if not disclosed.
`currency`	The currency of `amount`: `USD`, `EUR`, `GBP`, `INR`…
`date`	When the round was announced, `YYYY-MM-DD`.
`investors`	The investors named for this round. Can be empty.
`source`	How the round was checked. See below.

source

verified

Checked word for word against the announcement: the company's own news, a press wire or a filing.

confirmed

A dated news article states the same round, with the same stage and amount.

metal

Reported by the funding database Metal and not checked yet. Its amounts are in US dollars, as Metal converted them.

wikidata

An IPO from a stock-exchange listing in Wikidata, not checked yet.

not_found

Answer

{ "status": "not_found", "message": "No funding found for this company." }

The message is one of three sentences:

No funding found for this company. Prova looked and found no public funding.
We could not check this company just now. Try again later. The last search failed. Ask again a little later: Prova searches again once a short wait has passed.
Several companies have this name. Send the website (domain) instead. The answer then lists the companies it could be in candidates, each with a name and domain.

pending

Answer (HTTP 202)

{ "status": "pending", "message": "Still looking. Send the same request again in a few seconds." }

A company Prova has never seen is usually answered in the same reply, in about 4 to 6 seconds. When it takes longer, you get pending. (A company Prova already has never comes back pending: if its first check takes longer, you get what Prova has.) Ask again a few seconds later:

JavaScript

async function lookup(domain) {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 10; attempt++) {
    const res = await fetch('https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify({ domain }),
    })
    const answer = await res.json()
    if (answer.status !== 'pending') return answer      // found or not_found
    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 3000))       // still looking: wait 3 seconds
  }
}

Errors

A request that goes wrong gets {"error": "…"} with a sentence that says what to fix. Errors are free.

HTTP	Meaning
401	The API key is missing or wrong.
422	The request is malformed. For example, it sent both a `domain` and a `name`. The error says which.
500, 503	A problem on Prova's side. Try again in a few seconds.

Reference

Many companies at once

Send up to 100 companies in one request. Each one gets the same answer a single lookup would.

Terminal

curl -X POST https://api.provaapi.com/api/v1/funding-stages/bulk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"items": [{"domain": "tryprofound.com"}, {"domain": "deel.com"}, {"domain": "usepuddle.com"}]}'

The answers come back in the same order. index is the position in your list, and body is exactly what a single lookup returns:

Answer (shortened)

{
  "results": [
    { "index": 0, "http_status": 200, "body": { "status": "found", "company": { "name": "Profound", "domain": "tryprofound.com", "public": null }, "latest_round": { "stage": "series_d", "...": "..." }, "rounds": [ "..." ] } },
    { "index": 1, "http_status": 200, "body": { "status": "found", "company": { "name": "Deel", "domain": "deel.com" }, "...": "..." } },
    { "index": 2, "http_status": 200, "body": { "status": "not_found", "message": "No funding found for this company." } }
  ]
}

A company Prova hasn't seen before comes back pending in a bulk request. Prova keeps looking in the background, so send those companies again a few seconds later.
One bad item gets its own 422 in its body. The rest of the list is still answered.
Each company counts as one lookup, and only found answers are charged.

Account

Pricing

You pay only when the answer has funding in it.

Answer	Price
found: funding rounds came back	$0.01
not_found: no funding found	Free
pending: still looking	Free
Errors (bad key, bad request, a problem on our side)	Free

Each lookup is counted on its own. Looking up the same company twice costs $0.01 twice.
In a bulk request, each company in the list counts as one lookup.
Example: 1,000 lookups where 800 come back found cost $8.00.

Open your dashboard

The dashboard shows what you have spent this month, today and since you started. The same numbers are available as JSON from GET /api/v1/usage with your key.

Account

Have your API key ready

Send a request

Read the answer

Playground

The request

Which company

Options

Examples

Mistakes

The answer

found

source

not_found

pending

Errors

Many companies at once

Pricing

Dashboard