Builders in Fintech

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How many investors backed public fintech equity rounds in the last 12 months that match a country / stage / sub-sector, the top 3 investors by matching rounds (with whether they have a fund on Deploying now), and a coverage caveat (share of rounds in the period with a known country). Optional filters apply to the qualifying rounds: topic (topic slug, via the news linked to the round), country (company's country slug), stage (pre-seed, seed, series-a, series-b, series-c-plus, growth — derived from round_type). All arguments optional. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Find companies by product category, licence (licensed_in matches the home country or any passported country), licence type, authority, and agent access (has_sandbox, has_mcp, has_api), optionally min_agent_ready (1–5, the product's Agent-Ready score; available once those results are published). Returns each company with its approved products (with agent_access), LEI, licence summaries and self-reported certifications. Every licence carries source_url and last_checked_at so you can verify it on the regulator's register. From public registers as of the last-checked date. Always confirm on the regulator's register before relying on it. Use list_provider_filters for valid slugs. Ordered by company name, then slug. cursor is the next_cursor from a previous page. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Counts for a slice of the funding database: rounds, countries, totals per announced currency, undisclosed rounds and rounds per category. Note: rounds, per_currency and undisclosed count equity rounds only, while by_category covers every round category (equity, debt, grant, ipo; fund closes are separate, see list_fund_closes), so the category split can sum higher than the round count.

One published item by type and slug, with its body text (truncated), topics, countries, organizations and people. News items also include a corrections array (date + note), newest first.

One edition of the Builders in Fintech daily digest (weekdays): the equity rounds that became public in its window (largest first within USD, EUR, GBP, then other currencies; never converted), news published in the window, one upcoming event and any podcast episode. Arguments: date (optional, 'YYYY-MM-DD'); omit for the latest published edition. Only published editions are returned. Unknown arguments are rejected.

The weekly Builders Fintech Funding Index of approved equity rounds (ISO weeks). Arguments: week (optional, 'YYYY-Www', e.g. '2026-W39') returns that week; otherwise the latest weeks, newest first. weeks (optional, 1–104, default 1) sets how many. Count Index = rounds this week / average of the prior 12 weeks × 100. USD median index uses disclosed USD rounds only (needs 5). Amounts are never converted. Published values are frozen; revised_* shows later corrections. coverage_affected is true when a coverage change falls in the week or its 12-week baseline; coverage_note then explains how the index overstates activity. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Follow-on scorecard for one investor by slug: of the portfolio companies it first backed at least the window ago, the share that raised a later approved round (equity or IPO) within the window, at least gap_days after entry. Only returned when the investor has at least min_eligible eligible companies. Arguments: slug (required). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Full public profile for one organization by slug: description, country, funding rounds (raised or led), people, any disclosure, editor_disclosure (current when the editor holds equity, past when it previously did, otherwise none), our published coverage of it (articles, newsletter issues, podcast episodes), and its products (company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset), each with an agent_access object when API, sandbox, llms.txt, OpenAPI or MCP details are set. Also lei, licences[] (approved register entries, each with source_url and last_checked_at) and certifications[] (self-reported by the company, with evidence_url).

Full public profile for one person by slug: bio, roles and coverage.

Full public listing for one product by slug: description, category, markets, customer type, API, pricing model, links, the company and an agent_access object (api_available, docs_url, openapi_url, sandbox_url, llms_txt_url, auth_method, mcp_url) when any is set, plus the company's lei, licences[] (with source_url and last_checked_at) and certifications[] (self-reported). Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering.

One report by slug: publisher and co-publishers, date, type, gated flag, summary, up to 5 key figures (value and unit exactly as written, each with page_ref), methodology note, source_url (the publisher's own page for the report) and the news / newsletters that covered it. Reports are published by the companies, investors, consultancies and analysts named as publisher; we link to the publisher's page and never host the file. Figures are quoted exactly as written, each with page_ref (a page number, or 'web' for an HTML page). gated = registration required at the publisher. Unknown arguments are rejected.

The monthly Fintech Signals report: stored figures for approved equity rounds in one month (headline rounds and per-currency totals/medians, comparison with previous months, largest rounds per currency, stages, countries with 3+ rounds, topics with 5+ rounds, investors with 2+ rounds, and debt/fund/IPO items not counted). Amounts are never converted; totals and rankings are per currency. Arguments: month (optional, 'YYYY-MM'); omit for the latest published edition. Always returns available_months. Each report carries date_published and date_modified (revised_at, else the item's last content update, else published). Unknown arguments are rejected.

The weekly digest for one topic (currently the topics with a digest, e.g. 'stablecoins', 'agentic-payments'): published news tagged with the topic or its sub-topics in one ISO week (Monday to Monday, Europe/Rome), newest first, plus the approved funding rounds linked to those stories. Amounts are never converted. Arguments: topic (required, topic slug), week (optional, 'YYYY-Www', e.g. '2026-W45'; omit for the current week). Always returns available_weeks (last 12 weeks with at least one story). Unknown topic → error listing the digest topics. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Largest disclosed equity rounds, ranked per currency (amounts are never converted between currencies).

Countries that have public coverage, with company and content counts.

Funds that raised in the last 24 months and are backing fintech rounds in the last 12: approved funds (not other-sector) whose latest first/interim/final close is within 24 months and whose manager invested in public equity rounds in the last 12 months (at least 1 for fintech funds, 2 for generalist or unknown focus). Per fund: manager, latest close, size or target as announced (never converted), rounds_12m, rounds_since_close and the 3 latest rounds. Optional filters apply to the qualifying rounds: topic (topic slug, via the news linked to the round), country (company's country slug), stage (pre-seed, seed, series-a, series-b, series-c-plus, growth — derived from round_type). limit ≤ 50. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Approved fintech events, upcoming by default, with optional country, format, topic and month filters.

Approved venture-fund closes, newest first: fund, manager, close_type (launch, target, first, interim, final, unspecified), date, amount and currency as announced, source. Amounts are as announced, in their own currency, never converted. size is from the latest first/interim/final close with an amount; a target is never reported as size. Funds focused on other sectors are not included. Arguments: since / until (YYYY-MM-DD), close_type, fintech_focus, limit. Without close_type only first, interim and final closes are listed. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Approved funding rounds, newest first, with optional filters and keyset pagination. Pass the returned next_cursor fields (after_date, after_id) to get the next page.

Valid values for find_providers: product category slugs, licence type slugs, authority slugs, and the ISO codes of countries that have at least one public licence (home or passported).

Fintech companies that pitched Builders in Fintech and opted in to a public listing while they raise: company name, website, one-liner, stage, country, target raise (never converted) and a featured flag (featured = the 3 most recently approved live listings). Listings are provided by the companies, not verified, and not an offer. Argument: featured_only (optional boolean: only the 3 featured listings). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Every public topic with its slug and URL, for use as a filter in the other tools.

Investors ranked by the number of approved rounds they appear in. Category defaults to equity. With a country, only rounds of companies headquartered in that country are counted; the country may be a slug ('italy') or a two-letter ISO code ('IT'), case-insensitive.

Full-text search across published news, newsletter issues, podcast episodes, public entity pages, funding rounds and products. Result kinds: news, newsletter, podcast, company, investor, person, topic, country, funding_round, product; funding_round results also carry company, round_type (as recorded; null when not disclosed), round_label (a stage derived from the amount, only when round_type is empty; not the official round name), category, amount, currency, display_amount and announced_at; news, newsletter and podcast results carry editorial_format ('news', 'analysis' or 'signals'). Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, at least 2 characters — required, this tool has no plain-list mode. editorial_format (optional, 'news' | 'analysis' | 'signals'; 'signals' = the monthly funding report, see get_signals_report): return only publication items with that format. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Venture funds (fintech, partly fintech or generalist) with their manager, status, stages, latest close and size or target. Amounts are as announced, in their own currency, never converted. size is from the latest first/interim/final close with an amount; a target is never reported as size. Funds focused on other sectors are not included. Arguments: q (or query) matched against fund and manager name; fintech_focus; stage; country (ISO-style country slug, e.g. 'italy'); status; closed_after (YYYY-MM-DD: a close on or after this date); limit. Newest close first. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Search fintech companies and investors by name, kind or country. Returns public profiles with canonical URLs. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Search founders, operators and investors covered by the publication. Arguments: q (or query): text to search for, matched against the full name. With no q the tool returns a plain alphabetical list (first 25 by default). Unknown arguments are rejected.

Search attributed facts and question-and-answer pairs from Builders in Fintech podcast episodes (as stated by the guest, not independently verified). Arguments: q (or query) matched against fact text, and against questions and answers; organization (slug) = facts linked to that company or investor; person (slug) = facts said by that person; fact_type (figure, fact, plan, view); episode (podcast episode slug); limit; cursor (next_cursor from the previous page). With no q the tool lists the newest facts. The qa array is returned only when q is given and honours q and episode only. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Search fintech products by text, category, market, API availability, agent access (has_mcp, has_sandbox, has_api) or customer type. Each product carries an agent_access object (api_available, docs_url, openapi_url, sandbox_url, llms_txt_url, auth_method, mcp_url) when any of these is set. Company-provided, not part of the CC BY dataset. Each result carries provided_by, last_confirmed_at and sponsored; sponsorship never changes ordering. Arguments: q (or query) matched against name and short description; with no q the tool lists products alphabetically. cursor is the opaque next_cursor from a previous page. Unknown arguments are rejected.

Fintech reports, white papers, surveys and data, newest first, with publisher, type, date and gated flag. Reports are published by the companies, investors, consultancies and analysts named as publisher; we link to the publisher's page and never host the file. Figures are quoted exactly as written, each with page_ref (a page number, or 'web' for an HTML page). gated = registration required at the publisher. Arguments: q (or query, ≥2 characters) matched against title and summary; topic (topic slug); publisher (organisation or person slug); report_type; year; gated (true/false); limit (≤50); cursor (next_cursor from a previous call). Use get_report for figures and coverage. Unknown arguments are rejected.