# VCBacked, $299 yearly: Company discovery API

> Programmatic access to recently funded startup data. Pull fresh leads into Clay, Instantly, Smartlead, and any tool with API support. Set it up once, get new leads automatically.

VCBacked's company discovery API on its Annual Plan. It costs $0.082 per 1,000 companies. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Industry, Social profiles, Headquarters, Funding.
We haven't run VCBacked through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 771 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 companies than 71% of the 771 plans.
[StackScan's $189 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/stackscan/189-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-tech-lookup-lists/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000015. StackScan's $189 monthly plan covers up to 259,200 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 500,000 companies.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly-starter-post-discover/llms.txt) and [PeopleSearch.im](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vcbacked/299-yearly
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.vcbacked.co/startup-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://fdkccvhadagxxzituuze.supabase.co/functions/v1/api-companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.vcbacked.co/startup-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.vcbacked.co/startup-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: VCBacked (https://www.vcbacked.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Industry: ✓
- Social profiles: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Funding: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.082
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: yearly
- $ a month: $24.92

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Programmatic access to recently funded startup data. Pull fresh leads into Clay, Instantly, Smartlead, and any tool with API support. Set it up once, get new leads automatically.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: 8.1 [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Data made available through the Service solely for your internal business purposes. 8.2 [...] You expressly agree that you will NOT: [...] Store or cache the Data in a manner that exceeds reasonable use or attempts to circumvent usage limitations, [...] 13.3 Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease.
- Use data: 8.1 [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Data made available through the Service solely for your internal business purposes. 8.2 Restrictions: You expressly agree that you will NOT: Copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, or create derivative works from the Data except as expressly permitted, Sell, resell, license, sublicense, or otherwise commercialize the Data or any portion thereof, Use the Data to create a competing product or service, Store or cache the Data in a manner that exceeds reasonable use or attempts to circumvent usage limitations, Share exported Data with third parties unless authorized by your subscription plan, Use the Data in any manner that could be considered defamatory, libelous, or invasive of privacy, Use automated systems to systematically download or scrape Data beyond your subscription's export limits. 7. Acceptable Use Policy: You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree NOT to: Use the Service in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation, Use the Service for any unauthorized commercial purpose, including reselling, redistributing, or sublicensing access to the Data, Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service or extract Data beyond what is permitted by your subscription, Use the Data to send unsolicited bulk communications (spam), harass individuals, or engage in any form of illegal marketing, Use the Service to compile data for use by a competing service or to create a derivative database, Share your Account credentials or allow multiple users to access the Service through a single Account (unless authorized by your subscription plan), Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service.

## Plan

- Pay: $299
- You get: 100 requests a day
- Enough for: 100 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: funded_within, industry, location, funding_type, min_funding, max_funding, search, page, per_page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api-companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Annual Plan
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or of legal majority, with the legal capacity to enter a binding agreement

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

company name, description, website, industries, headquarters, last funding type, last funding amount USD, last funding date, total funding USD, top investors, founder names, contact email, contact first name, contact last name, contact role, LinkedIn URL, total results, page, page size, total pages, date range start, date range end

## VCBacked's plans (1)

- [VCBacked, $299 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vcbacked/299-yearly/llms.txt): $0.082 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month

## VCBacked's calls (1)

- `GET /api-companies`: [VCBacked, $299 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vcbacked/299-yearly/llms.txt)

## VCBacked's APIs (1)

- [VCBacked: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/vcbacked/299-yearly/llms.txt)

## VCBacked: company discovery API alternatives

- [SerpKite, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpkite/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [GetLeads, $497 monthly, Unlimited, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getleads/497-monthly-unlimited-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 month
- [Implisense, €379 pack, 5,000 Implicents, GET /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/implisense/379-pack-5000-implicents-get-v2-search/llms.txt): $0.086 per 1,000, 8% complete, 1 day
- [Captapi, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/captapi/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 38% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://www.vcbacked.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.vcbacked.co/startup-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.vcbacked.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing